It’s now September, and, with a second season officially in the works, impossible to deny Netflix’s Stranger Things the title of summer’s buzz-worthiest show. In eight episodes, the Duffer Brothers manage to synthesize everything great about ’80s pop entertainment—Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, Marvel, D&D, and synthesizers—without once resorting to empty pastiche. It’s nostalgia with a soul, rare enough […]
Sure, you can see a comic book movie without doing your homework first. But we wouldn’t recommend it. It’s another big year for Marvel movies, with the next (last?) Avengers movie at the chewy center, but also the just-as-anticipated (some would say long overdue) debut of Captain Marvel, the modern MCU’s first film headlined by a […]
It goes without saying, at this point, that there are more comic book movies (mostly of the superhero variety) doing bigger business than ever. To keep our interest, they’ve had to evolve: among 2018’s adaptions of super-franchises are horror, comedy, and animated films, alongside new iterations of more traditional action. Some look like they’ll be […]
Anyone watching the first trailer for the upcoming flick The New Mutants could be forgiven for not immediately realizing they were getting their first glimpse of, not a tense new horror thriller, but the 11th (!) movie in the long-running X-Men film franchise. Since the first X-Men film was released in 2000, at the dawn of the modern superhero […]