There are still plenty of folks who might dismiss this, but we owe a lot of what we’ve seen in terms of modern comic book films to Blade. Its commercial achievement was a major shot in the arm, as Marvel had struggled to successfully adapt their comic properties to the…

Perhaps overlooked by some, the Ant-Man franchise has always grabbed me as a perfect counterbalance to most of the cataclysmically dire proceedings within other Marvel Studios films. I equate the films to the Wonderful World of Disney TV movies some of us grew up on in the mid 80s; light…

Films about clones can be a crap shoot, if we’re being perfectly honest. Very few manage to squeeze out as much fun from the concept as we’d like, and a handful of them usually end in the most pedestrian way possible. …

Is there any track record spottier than the one for Stephen King adaptations? There are definitely a handful of gems spanning the decades, many arguably from the “ABC mini-series” era of the 1990s, although we don’t talk about The Langoliers . . . no, no, no. There is no denying…

No matter how much anyone on either side of the argument wants to boil it down to its simplest terms, representation in media can be a complex matter. Personally, I have issues with how it’s implemented in certain instances, because it’s debilitatingly easy to see when it’s authentic, and when…

Faster . . . Sharper . . . Bloodier. — Despite the occasional cries from horror movie fans that continue to lament the dominance of the Twilight franchise over ten years since those movies ended, the aughts had more than enough vampire media that leaned towards the more “animalistic” tastes of those same horror fans. And if ever there was…

Yes, this is my second consecutive article about a vampire film from the early aughts, and guess what? Blade II just celebrated its 20th anniversary, so I may be going for the hat trick! In any event, I wanted to talk about a movie that I’m sure many would consider…

I remember having a fairly poor opinion of the 2002’s Queen Of The Damned when I first saw it in theaters twenty years ago. So transparently cobbled together by studio executives, it had little regard to whether it functioned as a cohesive film. Mega-producer Joel Silver pretty much had carte…

**Major Spoiler Warning** If there’s one thing major movie studios can’t resist at the moment, it’s a good old fashioned legacy sequel. As more media companies continue to weaponize nostalgia through their massive collections of intellectual property, it’s fair to speculate as to whether we’ve reached a saturation point. Eventually…