How to Make Batman Real: Mask of the Phantasm 25 Years Later
Few pop culture figures have had as many ups and downs in popular esteem as Batman, a character who, in one guise or another, can always capture people’s imaginations but […]
Few pop culture figures have had as many ups and downs in popular esteem as Batman, a character who, in one guise or another, can always capture people’s imaginations but […]
My growing pains as a learning cinephile continue. In some ways, this past year has been a very helpful experience. I continue to plug away at the gaps in my […]
Superhero movies have, over the course of seventy-odd years, blown up like a balloon. With each stage of development, from serials to television to early blockbusters to post-9/11 tentpoles, the budgets […]
I’ve been familiar with this movie all my life, and it’s still slippery. At the time of its release, it was greeted as the first cinematic adaptation of Batman to […]
The two archetypal superheroes made their cinematic debuts in quick bursts of action to be played in front of the movies people came to see. These serials took fifteen weeks […]
As I’ve mentioned, there’s a movie coming out on March 25 that will be the first of its kind in one particular respect. Two characters will share the screen in […]
This is the story of three freaks. Pale as death, they walk by night, guided by their spirit animals. The surface world, occupied by the gaudy and squeaky clean rites […]
Five years have passed since this movie was a phenomenon. The footprint it left on pop culture is huge — its effects on comic book movies, and by extension all […]
Lois Lane: You’ve got me? Who’s got you? It’s summertime; let’s talk about superheroes. If I were to argue that the comic book exists as an art form at the […]
(See my previous post) As Deems Taylor puts it during his final speech in Fantasia, “[The pinnacle of my all-time favorite movies list] is a combination of two [films] so […]