With the moderate success of Filmation’s live-action show Shazam! the studio decided to create a female counterpart to Captain Marvel but as they were unwilling to pay licensing fees for Mary Marvel a new character called Isis was created.
Shazam! (1974-1977) – Review
In the early 70s kids were overjoyed to see Hanna-Barbera’s Super Friends cartoon, starring their favorite superheroes each and every Saturday morning, but over at rival animation house Filmation a half-hour live-action Saturday morning program, featuring the adventures of Captain Marvel, was being produced, and to say the results were something less than heroic would…
The Black Hole (1979) – Review
What do you get when you cross Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey with Shakespeare’s The Tempest? Well in 1979 Walt Disney Studios kind of answered that question with the release of their first PG-rated film called The Black Hole, unfortunately, that answer was something audiences of the late 70s were not particularly interested in…
Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941) – Review
Republic Pictures may have been considered a “Poverty Row” company when compared to bigger studios like Warner Brothers, Columbia and Fox – being relegated to mostly doing B movies and westerns – but when it came to producing serials they left all the others in the dust, giving us such great entries as Dick Tracy…
The Cat from Outer Space (1978) – Review
By the 1970s the Golden Age of Disney animated movies was clearly over and the studio began to focus on their live-action movies, for not only were they cheaper to make than animated features but you could also make a dozen or more live-action films for the price of one animated feature.