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With the turn of the millennium on the horizon, 90s blockbusters increasingly became preoccupied with grandiose disaster scenarios, and Dante’s Peak became one...
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by Mark Voger Published by TwoMorrows Based on his earlier books, including Monster Mash, Groovy, and Holly Jolly, I’m fairly convinced that author...
I may be the only person in the world who wasn’t head over heels for this film. I tried and tried and even watched...
Fredrick Forsyth’s 1971 debut thriller The Day of the Jackal is one of the greatest works of “airport literature” ever made. The book’s...
With the turn of the millennium on the horizon, 90s blockbusters increasingly became preoccupied with grandiose disaster scenarios, and Dante’s Peak became one...
There are two ways one can review a biographical motion picture. The first is to compare what’s onscreen with what you know (or...
Anticipation has always been a double-edged sword in cinema. Even a fairly decent movie will have studios hoping that a second crack at...
The Disney live-action remake has become the butt of many a joke about Hollywood’s inability to nurture originality, with viewers often left wondering...
In the early 1970s, I was a budding film buff and the Humphrey Bogart cult was booming in the college dorms with books,...
The Blu-ray release of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: The Complete Series brings back a curious relic of 1970s animation—a Hanna-Barbera experiment...
Uncle Buck is probably the film that the late John Candy is best remembered for, and with good reason. The comedy boom of...
When I was a kid, I never imagined that we would one day have a Spider-Man movie. Heck, I remembered buying Comics Scene...
Oh, Werewolves, where do I even begin with this howling disaster? Directed by Steven C. Miller, the story, if you can call it...
The Batman (2022), Matthew Reeves’ rain-soaked and idiosyncratic take on the Caped Crusader’s adventures, wasn’t universally loved, but the film’s version of The...
A veritable genre of its own, the Stephen King adaptation has been a mainstay of eerie entertainment on screens big and small for...
This release of Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles from the Warner Archive marks the first time this classic 1966-1967 Hanna-Barbera animated series has...
House M.D.: The Complete Series is a substantial, bittersweet offering for fans of the brilliant yet infuriating diagnostician who redefined the medical drama genre....
Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters, released in 1988, is a feature-length animated film that weaves together a collection of classic Warner Bros. Looney Tunes shorts...
RoboCop is among my favorite movies of all time. That 1987 original recipe, directed by Peter Verhoeven and starring Peter Weller. The score by...
During summer break in 1972, we follow 11-year-old Vada (Anna Chlumsky) and her daily life as the daughter of widowed funeral parlor owner...
Let’s start with a spoiler: Salieri did not actually kill Mozart. The accusation started as Viennese society gossip that Alexander Pushkin turned into...
Written by Dave Cook Art by Clark Bint, Craig Paton Published by Titan Comics This was an interesting surprise. I wasn’t sure what...
Shane Black scored the biggest hit of his directorial career with 2013’s Iron Man 3, a film that was controversial to die-hard comic...
As I wrote in my review of the previous volume of this series, “it’s one of the rare instances where regardless of when...
Written by Mark Millar Art by Olivier Coipel, Stuart Immonen Published by Millarworld / Dark Horse Comics In my recent review of Mark...
After several underwhelming endeavors, the powers behind the MCU have realized that their content oversaturation was not appealing to audiences, but the content mill...
With Longlegs, Osgood Perkins wrote and directed one of the eeriest films of 2024, which drew crowds thanks to a highly successful marketing campaign....
Written by by Mark Millar Art by Juanan Ramirez Published by Millarworld / Dark Horse Comics Like Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, and a...