I have a pretty strong idea of what I think the future ought to look like, and a lot of it comes from the club scenes from Purple Rain. Like the music of the music legend at its center, the movie Purple Rain is a lot of different things brought together: it’s in turn a feature length music…
If you think about it, The Jungle Book is not the most obvious choice for a live-action Disney adaptation. While the songs from Disney’s 1967 animated original are pop culture touchstones, the film itself usually doesn’t rank among the most-beloved Disney’s classic animated features. Throw in a renewed examination of the imperialism in Rudyard Kipling’s writing and the…
Here there be spoilers for Batman v Superman and the Fast & Furious franchise. Ye be warned. Warner Brothers and DC Comics are faced with the unenviable task of turning the hesitant, self-interested heroes of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice into an effective superhero team by the time Justice League Part 1 hits theaters in November of 2017. In addition to…
Before we get started, I want you to picture Superman. What’s coming to mind, reader? Are you seeing the blue costume? How about those red trunks bad comedians love to talk about? Are you thinking of his speed relative to speeding bullets or that bit about truth, justice, and whatnot? Now, are you picturing Superman…
On March 18th, Daredevil returns for the second season of its Netflix show. Joining the Man Without Fear and company as season 2’s primary adversary is Marvel’s favorite, skull shirt-clad antihero The Punisher. Created by writer Gerry Conway and artist John Romita Sr. in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man #129 in 1974, The Punisher was Marvel’s reflection of the…
For a movie originally released in 1991, set in 1982 but frequently flashing back to 1966, much of Only Yesterday feels timeless. Directed by Grave of the Fireflies director Isao Takahata and adapted from a manga by Hotaru Okamoto and Yuko Tone, the themes of Only Yesterday –which was released in US theaters for the first time in 2016– will be…
In the years since the project was scrapped, Superman Lives has become the Jodorowsky’s Dune of the superhero set: a dauntingly ambitious film helmed by a distinctive director featuring the input of a truly diverse array of artists that ultimately bit the dust before cameras started rolling. Slated for release in 1998, Superman Lives was set to be directed by…
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