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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
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film Hulk didn’t smash
By Tom Breihan August 24, 2018 | 1:00pm
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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
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film How did a great Alan Moore comic become a lousy Johnny Depp mystery?
By Tom Breihan July 27, 2018 | 11:00am
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film The modern era of the superhero movie begins in earnest with X-Men
By Tom Breihan July 13, 2018 | 11:00am
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film Mystery Men clumsily spoofed superhero movies before the genre even really took flight
By Tom Breihan June 29, 2018 | 1:00pm
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film Blade paved the way for the Marvel blockbusters of the new millennium
By Tom Breihan June 15, 2018 | 11:00am
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film Tragically and fashionably, The Crow turned superhero cinema into a death dance
By Tom Breihan April 20, 2018 | 11:00am
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film 25 years before Black Panther, a box-office bomb broke ground for black superheroes
By Tom Breihan April 6, 2018 | 11:00am
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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
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film Long before Spider-Man, Sam Raimi cast Liam Neeson as a wilder, grosser superhero
By Tom Breihan February 23, 2018 | 12:00pm
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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
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film Chinese blockbuster Wolf Warrior II is a very ’80s-style bombast opera
By Tom Breihan January 12, 2018 | 12:00pm
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film Kill Zone 2 is one incredible action scene after another
By Tom Breihan December 15, 2017 | 12:00pm
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film Mad Max: Fury Road might be the best action movie ever made
By Tom Breihan December 1, 2017 | 12:00pm
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film John Wick solidified Keanu Reeves as one of the greatest action stars of all time
By Tom Breihan November 17, 2017 | 12:00pm
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film Captain America leads the resistance in the locomotive end-times fable Snowpiercer
By Tom Breihan November 3, 2017 | 11:00am
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film Action movies don’t come much more visceral, simple, or awesome than The Raid
By Tom Breihan October 20, 2017 | 11:00am
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film The best Fast & Furious movie charted a path for the series—and got The Rock in on the action, too
By Tom Breihan October 6, 2017 | 11:00am
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film In South Korea, a horrifically extreme thriller can be the box-office champion of the year
By Tom Breihan September 22, 2017 | 11:00am
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film Universal Soldier: Regeneration breathed life into both Jean-Claude Van Damme's career and straight-to-DVD action
By Tom Breihan September 8, 2017 | 11:00am
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film Liam Neeson describes his particular set of skills and a new action craze is born
By Tom Breihan August 25, 2017 | 3:50am
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film Zack Snyder’s 300 presaged the howling fascism of the alt-right
By Tom Breihan August 11, 2017 | 5:00am
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film Casino Royale thrillingly rebooted James Bond for the grim-and-gritty era
By Tom Breihan July 28, 2017 | 5:00am
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film Donnie Yen established his ass-kicking star power long before Rogue One
By Tom Breihan July 14, 2017 | 5:00am