“The Lord of the Rings” film franchise pulled a ‘Star Wars’ when it released “The Hobbit” trilogy. Whereas the “Star Wars” prequels were created by George Lucas after the original trilogy, author J.R.R. Tolkien wrote “The Hobbit” 17 years before he released “The Lord of The Rings.” In terms of the films, director Peter Jackson…
Today’s pool of movie superheroes is growing in terms of diversity. White superheroes like Superman and Captain America are still adored, but modern audiences are demanding more relatable superheroes. Fortunately, we live in the 2020s — a land where white superheroes aren’t the only ones who reign supreme. Consider the current superhero landscape: Marvel recently…
The best love stories in film and literature often (if not always) involves a second lead, aka the third character involved in the love triangle. In the “Twilight” saga universe, Jacob Black is the famous/infamous second lead. We write famous/infamous because fans of the film and the books have conflicting opinions on Twilight’s resident werewolf….
Prior to the 2020 pandemic, the Consumer Electronics Show –or CES for short –was one of the biggest platforms for tech companies to showcase their most advanced products. Post-covid, however, and the CES became just another laptop-and-smartphone con that, while impressive, wasn’t exactly at the forefront of innovation. Think about it: for most of the…
With the series finale of the Trump Presidency, arguably the scariest sitcom outside of the scariest movies on Netflix, many people across the country are starting to feel a sense of normalcy settle back in. Of course, this wasn’t without resistance: many conservative media outlets tried, at the onset, to paint Biden as some kind…
There’s an unspoken rule in Hollywood: movies based on video games will almost always suck. Hell, just look at Uwe Boll’s filmography. However, Paul W.S. Anderson’s adaptation of the highly popular Resident Evil video game has spawned an entire film franchise, with all 7 films raking in a combined $1.2 Billion worldwide. It’s a financial…
One of the most underrated horror movies to come out in 2020, Richard Stanley’s Color Out of Space is a fairly faithful adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story of the same name. Now, adapting anything from the granddaddy of cosmic horrors can be a bit difficult; after all, most of Lovecraft’s horror doesn’t come from…
Released in 2005, Avatar: The Last Airbender quickly became one of Nickelodeon’s most popular and most endearing animated masterpieces, spawning a sequel series, several scholarly articles, and most recently, the creation of Avatar Studios, a separate department within Nickelodeon that will produce various forms of media set within the Avatar world (it’s already shaping up…
People have always held a strange fascination for B-movies, so much so that entire sub-cultures dedicated to the study and appreciation of these sub-par-so-bad-its-good pieces of film have existed for as long as movies have existed. But what exactly constitutes a B-movie? During the Golden Age of Cinema back in the 30s and 40s, B-movies…
After The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 was released in 2015, the hype of The Hunger Games book and film series seemed to die down. Unlike franchises like Harry Potter which went on to create spin-offs of the magical universe and eventually became known as The Wizarding World franchise or The Twilight Saga franchise…
