Before the MCU, before Spider-Man and even before the X-Men – there was Blade.Hardly gifted the most memorable of comic origins, this 70’s blaxploitation throwback
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Joker
At this point, what HASN’T been said about Todd Phillips’ controversial attempt at an orgin story for comic book’s greatest villain? Skewing close to what
Constantine
First dreamed up by grumpy, fuzzy faced comics overlord Alan Moore as a supporting character to mossy eco-warrior Swamp Thing, chain-smoking, street magician and full
Green Lantern
From the moment Green Lantern starts you instantly know something is up.As a grave and exhaustive voiceover tries to cram as much information as it
Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance
When attempting to review the second attempt to slap the skull-faced Spirit Of Vengeance into a second attempt at cinematic glory, a few things become
The Trial Of The Incredible Hulk
After the… well, I don’t exactly wanna say success exactly, but SOMEONE must have watched it… of the Incredible Hulk Returns, a follow up TV
Captain America
Say what you will about the two laughably cheap 1979 TV movies that played absurdly fast and loose with Captain America’s history, at least they
Captain America 2: Death Too Soon
After muscling out the amusingly cheap and (not very) cheerful Captain America TV movie like a star spangled kidney stone, the producers must have somehow
Supergirl
After Superman III was virtually torpedoed single handedly by the confusing appearance of a gurning Richard Pryor, a female-centric spin off featuring Superman’s cousin Kara
Captain America: Sentinel Of Liberty
Marvel’s desperate and clumsy attempts to shove their properties onto television in the late 70’s were a mixed bag at best. Sure, The Incedible Hulk
Jonah Hex
The melding of Warner Brothers and DC has provided both compliments and complaints over the years but until recently the most prevalent one was the
The Death Of The Incredible Hulk
The third and final entry into what increasingly feels more and more like a desperate act to keep Bill Bixby in gainful employment (he also
The Incredible Hulk Returns
After about 8 years of being off the air, Marvel’s most successful attempt at getting any of their properties realized at the time returned for
Batman Begins
It’s always been said that Bruce Wayne’s pointy-eared alter ego can best any opponent given enough prep time and after Warners had unleashed the most
Blade: Trinity
When you consider how much of an influence the original Blade is credited with when it comes to the meteoric rise (and rise) of the
Batman And Robin
Here it is ladies and germs, the movie that’s regarded as one of the worst of the modern age. A film that brought a screeching
Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer
Sometimes people, when faced with an adaption of beloved literature, can focus too much on the negative while being wilfully blind to the positive that’s
The Story Of Ricky
Even though I myself have used the phrase before – possibly in one of these very reviews – I’ve never really liked the term “guilty
Batman Forever
It’s a heady moment. You know the one; that moment when the quality of a franchise drops sharply and you know that all is lost.
Batman Returns
After the movie Batman made the world at large ridiculously obsessed with a violent billionaire punching a mentally ill man in white-face, director Tim Burton
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