Age of heroes

There’s this thing I’ve been doing. I’m not proud of it. It’s embarrassing. But I do it every time I get bored or…

The first time we see Wakanda in a Marvel movie—the physical location, not a blip on a map or a word spoken in…

There’s a moment in 2017’s Wonder Woman that’s so inspiring, and so largely unprecedented, that it literally brought…

In the opening moments of Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds turns directly to the camera and asks a rhetorical question:…

One day, we’ll get the Avengers party movie. Maybe. Hopefully. The best scene of Joss Whedon’s 2015 blockbuster Aveng…

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…

Nobody starts with the origin stories. At least when I first fell in love with comic books, the lure wasn’t the…

It could’ve worked. Maybe it should’ve worked. You can understand what everyone involved was thinking. Superhero…

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…

Throughout the ’80s and ’90s, the X-Men comics captured the collective imagination of the kids and teenagers who…