Superman Classic – Animated!
This has been making the rounds for a couple of days… a cool homage to several generations of Superman. Makes one wonder what Robb Pratt […]
Articles by Derek McCaw
First Trailer For X-Men: First Class
Please, please, please let this officially be considered a preboot of the franchise. The trailer revives every bit of excitement for X-Men that the trailer for X2 gave me, […]
Review: ‘The Green Hornet’
How do you update a superhero who actually predates comic books? That’s obviously hard enough, but just for laughs and awkward explanations about intellectual property, […]
Review: Black Swan
Guest review by Lyz Reblin My second favorite film, following Network, is The Red Shoes. This movie is gorgeous in how it is shot and has […]
First Shot Of Andrew Garfield In The Spidey-Suit
Thin like a Ditko drawing, his strength and powers clearly not affecting his physicality. Look closely, and you’ll see he’s got mechanical webshooters. People, Marc […]
Review: Young Adult
Guest review by Kevin Hull Young Adult is a unique, unconventional, extremely well-made film. That’s as much as can be said with any degree of […]
Comic-Con 2010: Celebrating His Father’s Shadow
Bela Lugosi, Jr. keeps his father’s memory (and image) alive, with no problem living in the family shadows…
Review: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Reviewed by Lon Lopez Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is like a twenty hit combo ending with a giant shuriken to the skull. And if […]
Conor McCreery And Anthony Del Col Want You To Help Them ‘Kill Shakespeare’
Just before WonderCon this year, I got an email from Conor McCreery, asking if I’d be interested in talking to him and his creative partners […]
The Heroic Movie Age: After ‘Iron Man 2’, What’s Next?
After watching The Incredible Hulk, I resigned myself to all the Marvel movies being one long epic story, with each “episode” focusing on different characters. […]
Review: ‘Iron Man 2’
Steve Jobs wishes he were Tony Stark. Sure, the iPad announcement was cool, but if Jobs had actually dropped down from the sky on repulsor […]
Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour
Just outside a little blue marble in space, we begin the reign of a new Doctor the way we saw the old one out. (No, […]
Review: How To Train Your Dragon
To completely give over to Dreamworks’ How to Train Your Dragon, you have to accept a couple of things. First, there are dragons. That’s really […]
In Memoriam: Robert Culp
In memoriam: Robert Culp was a grand old man that I came to admire greatly, and I’m oddly shaken by his passing.
Doctor Who: The End Of Time
Gone are the killer robot Santa Clauses, only to be replaced by something even more bizarre. “The End of Time: Part One” tries to avoid […]
Review: Sherlock Holmes
A dedicated Sherlock Holmes fan finds much to like in Guy Ritchie’s reimagining…
Frank Beddor: Through A Looking Glass Darkly
Let’s not use the term Renaissance Man lightly, but it fits for Frank Beddor. As a youth, his athleticism led him to be a two-time […]
Review: 2012
Everyone talks about the end of the world, but nobody does anything about it. Except, perhaps, profit by talking about it, and thus it’s no […]
Don Coscarelli, Master of Horror: Giving A Hand To ‘John Dies At The End’
Don Coscarelli won’t remember this, but we met once years ago at a Comic-Con. Of course, Coscarelli meets many people at conventions, and I can […]
This Interview Dies At The End
The Fanboy Planet Magic Mailbox delivers many intriguing things, one of which last month was an advanced copy of a novel called [amazon text=John Dies […]
