SYNOPSIS What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister? With Brightburn, the visionary filmmaker of Guardians of the Galaxy and Slither presents a startling, subversive take on a radical new genre: superhero horror. 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY,…
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Real heroes never retire in Supervized, arriving on Digital and On Demand July 19 from Lionsgate. The film will also be in select theaters from Freestyle on July 19. Academy Award® nominee Tom Berenger (1986, Best Supporting Actor, Platoon) and Golden Globe® winner Beau Bridges (1994, Best Supporting Actor, The Positively True Adventures…
Super-hero movie fans are awash with anticipation. I’ll avoid the obvious jokes. A couple weeks ago, executives from 21st Century Fox, the corporate head of 20th Century Fox, met with their counterparts at The Disney Organization, the corporate head of everything named “Marvel” except for Marvel Mystery Oil (see lengthy footnote, below). Evidently, Fox owner…
Bill Maher, noted iconoclastic and increasingly misanthropic host of Real Time on HBO, announced about ten days ago that he was taking July off because, after six months of President Trump, he really needed it. I sympathize. Not before he took what I regard as some ill-informed and gratuitous swipes at comics, comic book movies,…
So all hail, Princess Diana! For the second week in a row, she has conquered the all mighty Box Office! You commerce-and-finance majors might consider declaring a holiday. Liberal arts dweebs like me will be satisfied with being grateful for a genuinely satisfying movie-going experience. There’s a lot to be said for the film and…
“I won’t be ig-NORED, Dan,” said Alex Forest (Glenn Close) to her illicit lover Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) in Fatal Attraction. And so said a large enough number of disconcerted people who were fed up with being ig-NORED by the political elite gathered around the Potomac basin to swing the Electoral College vote in favor…
Like much of the planet, I saw the new Guardians of the Galaxy movie this weekend. Like a smaller percentage of this group, I saw it with a friend who isn’t into super-heroes. Let me be clear. She isn’t opposed to super-heroes. It’s just that they are not her genre. Still, she had heard good…
Over the millennia, I’ve written enough reviews to denude the Shoshone National Forest. My fellow commentators here at ComicMix have as well, and some of my best friends have been critics. So, as you read the following rant, please keep in mind I am not referring to those people… but I am referring to damn…
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do • William Blake Last Thursday, the Guardian – last real newspaper on Earth – carried a story by Sian Cain revealing Alan Moore was retiring from comic…
Nope. This is not an old guy rant about how you-all young’uns are ignoring comic books because you’re too busy enjoying the movies and teevee shows being made out of those same comic books. I’m beginning to think that if you lust for heroic fantasy, maybe the plethora of such fare in our theaters and…
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when superhero movies were kiddie fodder and proud of it. Yes, I know. The Avengers: Age of Ultron opens this Friday (which is really Thursday night; Hollywood exists in a different time/space continuum). Everybody’s stoked to see it; well, everybody but ComicMix’s own Martha Thomases,…
What do whales have to do with comics? I’m glad you asked. According to this study, in times of trouble, whales turn to the post-menopausal females to lead them. They trust these elderly females to know where the food is. Besides humans, whales are the only other mammals to live after menopause, sometimes decades longer….
