Palmer Rockey takes the notion of "auteur" into uncharted territory in this somewhat episodic amalgamation of genres that would make Tommy Wiseau jealous. On one hand it has the look of an Alan Rudolph film of the same era but the sensibility is Roger Corman...
Captain America: Brave New World is more placeholder than blockbuster, and it might have worked better as a Disney+ sequel series. But it's better than you probably expected. If there is a single word that sums up the various, intersecting plots of this latest MCU sequel...
Joker: Folie à Deux is not a terrible movie, but it is a terrible sequel. The first Joker film is a love letter to the films of Martin Scorsese, specifically Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy. In so far as the city of Gotham is...
When Greta Gerwig's Barbie eclipsed the $1.342 Billion global box office grossed by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 (not adjusted for inflation), it became Warner Brothers' biggest movie ever. This punctuated the era-defining success of movie that was only expected to...
There are few things that unite people as much as the idea that Freedom is a self-evident right. And yet the large-scale misunderstanding of what constitutes the concept of freedom under law is perhaps the greatest social divide of our era. People who may fundamentally...
Comic Art Fans founder Bill Cox recently debuted a sneak-peek of this on the Comic Art Live YouTube channel, but here's the full tour. Matt Kennedy has been collecting artwork since elementary school and in a 30+ year career that includes stints as director...
When I was in 4th grade (this was in the 70s, by the way), Mrs. Kelly dedicated half an hour after lunch one day to a magic show by one of my classmates. Julie Brewer was an only child and had the kind of young,...
Before we get into the data, I think it is important to recognize that representation is important. For the vast majority of the history of cinema, most of the content produced has featured white, non-hispanic performers regardless of the demographic of audiences. While there have been...
The MCU just expanded triple-fold with the opening of Spider-Man: No Way Home, and as expected there were massive repercussions in the world of comic book collecting –because nothing impacts the value of back-issues like MCU validation. That can mean the adaptation of a story...
For weeks various fan sites have been predicting the drop date for the first trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home, and as each assumed date passes, they've all been wrong. That created a sort-of fan frenzy which was surprisingly (and fleetingly) sated when a very...
Madame Hydra? When Julia Louis-Dreyfus first appeared on Episode 5 of Falcon and the Winter Soldier, no less than three long-forgotten key issues started to spike. And while this reminds us that 80+ years of Marvel Comics has given us hundreds of characters, what can...
When Disney acquired the rights to Fox’s Marvel properties, there were legitimate concerns that Deadpool would be tamed from his rowdy roots to fit the House of Mouse’s PG-13 confines. Those worries were put to bed when studio chief Kevin Feige announced that Deadpool 3...