• film Venom may be bad, but at least it didn’t cast Topher Grace in the title role By Tom Breihan October 19, 2018 | 11:00am
• film Superman returns, but he forgot to bring the action and the fun back with him By Tom Breihan October 5, 2018 | 11:00am
• film The Incredibles didn't need comic-book source material (or origin stories) to do superheroes right By Tom Breihan September 7, 2018 | 11:00am
• film Hulk didn’t smash By Tom Breihan August 24, 2018 | 1:00pm
• film Sam Raimi’s bright, fun Spider-Man doubled as a valentine to a post-9/11 New York By Tom Breihan August 10, 2018 | 11:00am
• film How did a great Alan Moore comic become a lousy Johnny Depp mystery? By Tom Breihan July 27, 2018 | 11:00am
• film The modern era of the superhero movie begins in earnest with X-Men By Tom Breihan July 13, 2018 | 11:00am
• film Mystery Men clumsily spoofed superhero movies before the genre even really took flight By Tom Breihan June 29, 2018 | 1:00pm
• film Blade paved the way for the Marvel blockbusters of the new millennium By Tom Breihan June 15, 2018 | 11:00am
• film The Phantom paid tongue-in-cheek homage to old-timey do-gooders but never got its due By Tom Breihan May 18, 2018 | 11:00am
• film Tragically and fashionably, The Crow turned superhero cinema into a death dance By Tom Breihan April 20, 2018 | 11:00am
• film 25 years before Black Panther, a box-office bomb broke ground for black superheroes By Tom Breihan April 6, 2018 | 11:00am
• film ’90s kids didn’t give a damn about the peerless movie-serial nostalgia of The Rocketeer By Tom Breihan March 9, 2018 | 12:00pm
• film Long before Spider-Man, Sam Raimi cast Liam Neeson as a wilder, grosser superhero By Tom Breihan February 23, 2018 | 12:00pm
• film It’s a bird... It’s a plane... It’s Superman, the first big-budget superhero movie By Tom Breihan January 26, 2018 | 12:00pm
• film Chinese blockbuster Wolf Warrior II is a very ’80s-style bombast opera By Tom Breihan January 12, 2018 | 12:00pm
• film Kill Zone 2 is one incredible action scene after another By Tom Breihan December 15, 2017 | 12:00pm
• film Mad Max: Fury Road might be the best action movie ever made By Tom Breihan December 1, 2017 | 12:00pm
• film John Wick solidified Keanu Reeves as one of the greatest action stars of all time By Tom Breihan November 17, 2017 | 12:00pm
• film Captain America leads the resistance in the locomotive end-times fable Snowpiercer By Tom Breihan November 3, 2017 | 11:00am
• film Action movies don’t come much more visceral, simple, or awesome than The Raid By Tom Breihan October 20, 2017 | 11:00am