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As most readers are aware, Zack Snyder's directing the next Superman film. The Superman franchise has had a rocky history, but there are certain pratfalls the film can avoid. Here's what we want to see from Snyder's Kryptonian blockbuster. More »
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He helped create Snakes On A Plane, get X-Men Origins: Wolverine made and write Booster Gold's comic for a year, but can Jeff Katz' nerd cred overcome doubts about his new production company, American Original? More »
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It was the moment where a million fanboys cheered - I know, that I was one of them - but does Superman The Movie director Richard Donner publicly stating that the Superman movie franchise should be handed over to Action Comics writer (and former assistant to Donner) Geoff Johns actually mean that anything will change for the seemingly-permanently stalled Superman movie franchise? More »
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You'd be forgiven for thinking that the comics industry has gone movie mad this week, judging by the books hitting stores tomorrow. Well, more movie mad than usual, perhaps. If it's not Marvel capitalizing on the success of Iron Man with two new Iron Man series and many other books starring the chrome crusader, it's a sequel to one of last year's summer blockbusters, and the long-awaited conclusion to a story by one of Hollywood's one-time top directors. Celluloid craziness and more, under the jump. More »
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The best part of time travel movies is always when the crazy scientist/inventor/engineer babbles madly about the hoozits that will allow time to be bent. Even better is when the hoozits swing into action and we see the "traveling in time" effects. Except in Richard Donner's Timeline, which is perhaps one of the worst time travel movies ever made. So bad, in fact, that it is hypnotic. Especially in this scene, where our team of medievalist dweebs is shoved into RenFaire outfits, stuck into a time machine on some ill-defined rescue mission, and shipped off to 1357 in France . . . right at the zoomiest part of the 100 years war. Of course Joan of Arc is there and a bunch of other stupid crap. But let's not focus on that. Let's watch our time travelers travel in the most transcendently dorky way imaginable! [Timeline] More »
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