Adapting comic books to the big screen is nothing new but in 1968 producer Dino De Laurentiis and director Roger Vadim weren’t interested in the likes of Batman or Superman, instead, they set their sights on a French science-fiction comic book about a space-going heroine who solved many her problems through her sexual liberation. This…
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The New Mutants (2020) – Review
What if The Breakfast Club had superpowers and were trapped inside the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest? This was basically the concept behind writer/director Josh Boone’s foray into the X-Men universe but due to Disney’s purchase of Fox, which resulted in re-shoots being cancelled and multiple delays to its eventual release, the bigger…
Hero at Large (1980) – Review
Who wouldn’t want to meet a superhero in real life? Many of us grew up pouring over countless Marvel or DC comic books, hoping to if not be bitten by a radioactive spider at least to someday meet one of those larger-than-life-heroes for ourselves. Martin Davidson’s film, Hero at Large, wonderfully taps into the hopeful…
Swamp Thing (2019) – Review
In 1982, DC comics revived their Swamp Thing character to capitalize on Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing movie, but after a couple years, the book found itself nearing cancelation, with the title’s sales plummeting, so with nothing to lose, DC gave a relatively unknown English writer named Alan Moore free rein to revamp the title as…
M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” or “How to Write a Contrived Twist”
With Marvel’s Cinematic Universe literally pulling in billions of dollars, it’s no surprise that others would try and cash in on the whole “Shared Universe” idea, but where some, such as The Conjuring Universe, succeeded — now sitting at eight films — others like Universal’s Dark Universe failed miserably with only one film getting made before…