Hey, what happens when you want to do yet another Men In Black movie, but your two leads (Will Smith & Tommy Lee Jones) won’t sign on? Easy! Re-imagine the sucker with all new leads! Well, that’s exactly what happened here with the MIB franchise moving from the Big Apple across the pond to jolly…
When 2014’s X-Men: Days Of Future Past reset the timeline, so did all the events and stories that we saw in previous movies like X-Men: The Last Stand. So, that stuff never happened, okay? Instead, we get a whole new bunch of younger X-Men (and women) and their new goofy-looking comic book yellow & blue…
What if Superman, as a child, had grown up evil instead? That’s the premise for this strangely wicked and off-kilter movie, brought to you by the brother & cousin of director James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy). This also marks director David Yarovesky’s U.S. debut in film, although he played a Ravenger in Gunn’s movie.…
The Worst Show on the Web enters its second decade of coverage of the SFFILM Festival with our attendance at their 62nd Annual Film Festival. What used to be known as the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) is running now through April 23 at a variety of venues in the Bay Area. My day…
OMG, another remake?? Seriously? Apparently graphic novelist Mike Mignola, who created Hellboy, wanted a grittier, bloodier, R-rated version of his character and, since he couldn’t get director Guillermo Del Toro or actor Ron Perlman to come back, he went somewhere else. Well, like it or not, here’s a reboot of the Big Red Guy! *…
Okay, here we go… again. In the 1940’s, Shazam was a comic book where young Billy Batson spoke the word,”Shazam!” and then turned into an adult superhero called Captain Marvel. BUT! In 1991, trademark conflicts between DC and Marvel, had Shazam and Captain Marvel separate into two different characters with their own backstories. Got that?…
The problem with aliens-taking-over-the-Earth movies is that they’re pretty much all the same. Oblivion, V: the Mini Series, The 5th Wave, Alien Nation, Battlefield Earth, They Live, The Darkest Hour, etc. Every one has humans fighting aliens to win back Earth, but at least you knew what was going on in those movies. * *…
