Marvel was feeling itself. That’s the only real explanation. The comic book company had recovered from bankruptcy,…
Zack Snyder hates Superman.
In the past decade, Hollywood has attempted to transform the franchise into something else: the cinematic universe.…
“The Marvel Universe has gone nuts; we’re going to have a fricking Captain America movie if we’re not careful.” This…
Scott Pilgrim is not a superhero. He is not a hero. He is only barely a functional human being. He is a dipshit. So…
In a lot of ways, Watchmen, the comic series that Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons started publishing in 1986, is a story…
Midway through Christopher Nolan’s 2008 movie The Dark Knight, the Joker gets himself arrested so that he can then…
Here’s a fun mental exercise: Describe Venom to a child. I’ve tried it. It’s ridiculous.
If Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins was the first movie to really take superheroes seriously, then maybe Bryan…
Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies are as revered as any franchise of summer blockbusters can really be in this day and…
Nobody starts with the origin stories. At least when I first fell in love with comic books, the lure wasn’t the story…
It could’ve worked. Maybe it should’ve worked. You can understand what everyone involved was thinking. Superhero movies…
Sony Pictures could’ve owned the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it could’ve owned it for cheap. The rights to…
If you wanted to take a good, hard look at the difficulties of translating comic books into movies, Alan Moore makes a…
Throughout the ’80s and ’90s, the X-Men comics captured the collective imagination of the kids and teenagers who were…
For whatever reason, a lot of the early superhero movies were also superhero-movie parodies. Before the genre was fully…
Stan Lee always wanted to make movies. In the ’60s and ’70s, the comic book writer helped to create dozens of…
One of the first things we see in Batman & Robin, the movie that was supposed to be the big tentpole release for Warner…
They kept trying it. All through the 1990s, movie executives were greenlighting big summer movies based on mostly…
You can see how it happened. The executives at Warner Bros. didn’t set out to destroy the Batman mythos or to make…
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