Even with several spectacular films following in its footsteps since its release in April of 2014, Captain America: The Winter Solider remains my favorite movie to have been produced by Marvel Studios. After all, it's one of the more serious flicks the brand has had to offer, featured great character arcs and political intrigue, and served as a game-changer for the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole. I mean, what's not to love here?
With a hit CW series and a recent appearance in the Justice League's first silver screen outing now under his belt, one could say that everything's coming up Flash. In fact, not only is the Flashpoint movie said to be still in some phase of production, but the Scarlet Speedster will soon headline an animated flick in the form of LEGO DC Super Heroes: The Flash.
With so many superhero movies - especially ones based on Marvel properties - flooding cinemas in the past fifteen years or so, it's important that the right look be found when adapting each character to screen. Really, you can't just slap a spandex suit on somebody and then expect millions of potential moviegoers to take them seriously. No. You're going to have to make their costumes look both functional and badass.
As is the case with any genre or subgenre, the key to allowing it to live on is to examine it from different perspectives and hopefully break some new ground. For the past fifteen years or so, zombies – and, to a lesser extent, vampires that sparkle – have been all the rage. But after digesting them in countless movies, video games and TV shows, even this longtime Resident Evil fan has admittedly experienced fatigue.
Well, we knew that the first trailer for Avengers: Infinity War was doing rather well on YouTube as three out of five of those that were most viewed in 2017 belong to films distributed by Marvel Studios, but, every day, it seems like we get some kind of new inclination as to how highly anticipated this movie truly is. Maybe it’s the fact that this is what the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been building to since Iron Man first arrived in 2008, or that so many superheroes will be united in one picture, but our best judgment says it’s a bit of both.
When IT was originally announced to receive a silver screen adaptation, we’re sure that despite any excitement shared by fans of Stephen King’s original novel and the television miniseries, none of us could’ve predicted what a box office juggernaut it’d become. Seriously, the dough that it raked in was pretty much unheard of for horror movies, a feat normally reserved for summertime blockbusters and action flicks.
If there's any bragging right that Spider-Man can lay claim to, it's that he boasts one of the greatest rogues galleries in all of comics. From Venom to Kraven the Hunter to Electro, there's never been any shortage of badass villains for Peter Parker to combat.
In recent years, crossovers have been all the rage when it comes to superhero properties, whether it be on the big or small screen. And after being left reeling by this fall's big Arrowverse mashup, Crisis on Earth-X, we're sure many DC TV fans have one item remaining on their checklists.
In the past, LEGO sets promoted in advance of various superhero movie releases have done a fine job of spoiling major details. Chief among them, of course, was The Amazing Spider-Man's Lizard-laden third act that saw that flick's primary antagonist turn a SWAT team into reptile-human hybrids.
When Freddy vs. Jason stormed theaters in 2003, it not only gave moviegoers the death match they’d been waiting what felt like an eternity to see, but it also marked the end of a decade-long journey of making the film a reality. And, as the more diehard fans reading this are well aware, the studio burned through a number of screenplays over the course of that ten-year period, hoping to find the winning formula.
