The horror genre is usually associated with jump scares, deaths, and scenes that make you want to sleep with the lights on, but behind all that violence, some movies actually have something to say. And while the messages in films like Sinners and The Substance are easier to pick up on, others are often seen […]
Canceling Firefly after one season was bad enough. Fox also aired the episodes out of order, which didn’t exactly help viewers fall in love with a show about space outlaws trying to get by. Nathan Fillion’s Malcolm Reynolds had a ship full of misfits, a talent for getting into trouble, and precious little time to […]
Image Courtesy of Fox The X-Files has two kinds of episodes that aired during the show’s run, with the first being the alien mythology episodes and the second being the monster-of-the-week episodes. While the show was built around the sci-fi alien storyline, with Fox Mulder’s entire reason for being in the FBI tied to alien […]
Image Courtesy of DC Comics Hawkman is one of DC Comics‘ oldest heroes, but it’s rare that he’s talked about as some Golden Age legend. Carter Hall has been hitting bad guys in the head with a mace since 1940, a year before a certain star-spangled hero would sock Hitler in the jaw, decades before […]
IMAGE COURTESY OF LUCASFILM With all the debates over The Last Jedi, and flat-out hate for The Rise of Skywalker, it’s easy to imagine Mark Hamill feeling like enough was enough. He never truly stopped doing voice acting — by providing the pipes of Skeletor for Netflix, he tied with Jared Leto as the only […]
Disney looks like it’s about to lose the rights to one of its most beloved superhero films. The Rocketeer Trust has filed notice to reclaim The Rocketeer from Disney, according to Boardwalk Times. The trust, represented by Jennifer Bawcum, sister of the late Dave Stevens, creator of the character, is invoking a clause in federal […]
Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Every year, there are films released that so many of us are excited for, only to be let down. There are also plenty of cases where we all flock to one film and enjoy it, yet look back on it and realize it isn’t quite as good as we […]
When it comes to the biggest modern movie franchises, your mind will typically go toward the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avatar, Toy Story, Jurassic Park, Despicable Me, and anything related to Spider-Man. However, one totally original film franchise broke out to place itself among the most popular, and it began 12 years ago. There are now […]
In 1994, Disney released one of the most ambitious Shakespeare adaptations ever made, and it was not The Lion King. The animated blockbuster is famously based on Hamlet, with a murdered king, his treacherous brother, and a young prince fighting to take back his kingdom. But just four months later Disney unleashed another animated production, […]
Image Courtesy of Marvel Comics A Midnight Sons movie is in development for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the build-up to the movie might all start with the 2028 release of Ghost Rider. However, this is not where it started when it comes to the MCU, and there have been plenty of places where Marvel […]