If you weren’t a fan of Tim Story’s campy-bad 2005 Fantastic Four film and its somehow even more inferior 2007 sequel, then there’s a lot to like in the newly rebooted Fantastic Four. Unfortunately, that’s swiftly followed by a whole lot more to dislike intensely, as this second attempt by Fox (third, if you count the shelved 90’s Roger Corman …

After the massive back to back successes of X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past helped to erase the horrible taste* of Brett Ratner’s X-Men 3 from our cultural palates, the Bryan Singer led mutant franchise just seems to be going from strength to strength on the big screen. But what about the small screen? The X-Men franchise …

So I watched Fantastic Four last night. Thanks to media embargoes, you’re going to have to wait until next week to read my full review, but I will give you a little teaser: I really liked some stuff and really didn’t like some other stuff. Now that might not be much of a revelation, seeing as how most of us …

The last we heard from Fox about the proposed next iteration of hit TV series 24, they were thinking of taking a narrative angle that wouldn’t necessary focus on Kiefer Sutherland’s iconic counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer, but would allow for him to “come in and fit organically into the story, or they are prepared to do… one installment without him.” …

Ordinarily, we don’t make any efforts here to post teasers about upcoming trailers, which are nothing but slightly elongated teasers when you think about it. We don’t need to feed into that marketing hype, not at all. And then you get the kind of film which just gets its source material. Like Deadpool. So far, Deadpool has been particularly open so far, offering plenty of …

I don’t know if you recall, but back in 2013, Fox tapped comic-book scribe superstar Mark Millar to be their creative consultant in helping them build a cohesive shared universe of all their Marvel comic book properties. Except, he was then barely ever heard from again. But when it was announced that Chronicle director Josh Trank would be helming a …

Growing up, there was one show on TV that was guaranteed to leave me mentally scarred. And that was the X-Files. Even though the show slowly ditched the monster of the week concept for the longer-running alien invasion angle, there were still some episodes that had me too scared to turn off the lights. Especially that damn episode with the …

I think the big takeaway from recent comic book movies, is that having super-powers is an idea that super-rocks. After all, who wouldn’t want to be a Thunder god, have super strength or Hollywood level aim with a bow and arrow? But with the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot, maybe those powers are more of a curse than a blessing. That’s …