Despite having a long and illustrious career in comic books the character of Doctor Strange, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko way back in the 60s, has never quite reached mass public consciousness in the way as say Spider-Man or Captain America, but now that the Marvel brand has produced box office hit after…
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Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) – Review
Way back in 1973, Linda Blair was using a Ouija board to contact an entity she called Captain Howdy in The Exorcist; decades later, we see more kids messing with this “harmless toy” in two films co-produced by Hasbro and Platinum Dunes, and these kids have even less fun than Blair did with demonic spirits.
Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) – Review
When kids of today think of Batman most would draw upon the versions produced Christopher Nolan or Zack Snyder but there is one iconic version that should never be forgotten; in 1966 television producer William Dozier cast Adam West as the world renowned Caped Crusader
Beware! The Blob (1972) – Review
One of the seminal monster movies of the 50s was 1958’s The Blob, produced by Jack H. Harris and starring 27-year-old Steve McQueen as a “teenager” leading a group of rebels without causes against an amorphous creature from outer space; that film was a classic example of the genre, and fondly remembered by many, not…
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016) – Review
If you’ve heard of the historic sinking of the USS Indianapolis there’s a good chance you first learned of the event from Robert Shaw’s stirring monologue in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Jaws, and now decades later we get another, and vastly longer, a retelling of the story by director Mario Van Peebles. Why any studio thought…