Almost twenty years stood between Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns and the last Superman movie, the laughable bad Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, so audiences were more than ready for a good theatrical Superman movie, and don’t get me wrong, what we got was a marketed improvement over that atrocity, unfortunately, it wasn’t without issues…
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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) – Review
Before the year 2000 superhero films didn’t get a lot of respect, in the 70s we had Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie and in the 80s Tim Burton’s Batman, but aside from those rare success stories the superhero genre never really took off. Then came Bryan Singer, his X-Men movie not only received mostly…
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) – Review
When you consider comic book adaptations, there is either good, lighthearted fun – which is Marvel or dark and ominous – which is DC. X-Men Origins: Wolverine tries to be both. Gavin Hood attempts to deliver on the quick witted, and funny characters that Marvel has to offer, i.e. Wade Wilson and Wolverine, as well…
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) – Review
Marc Webb brings us his second installment in his Spider-Man saga and for me it landed with a big halting thud, a one hundred and forty-two-minute long thud. This time out Spider-Man tries to give us more banter and quips than what we got in all three of the Sam Raimi films, and we do…
The Spectacular Spider-Man: The Complete Series – Review
With Sony Pictures crapping the bed with numerous “Spider-Man” associated projects, and only the Spider-Verse movies getting any respect from fans and critics, let us take a look back at one of the other shining moments in Spider-Man’s history, one that is also and animated adventure.