Superhero Movies

del Toro’s ‘Blade II’ (2002) deepens vampire mythology

Working from a screenplay by returning writer David S. Goyer, Guillermo del Toro probably didn’t know it at the time, but he directs “Blade II”

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‘Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer’ (2007) a superior sequel

The “Fantastic Four” franchise steps it up a notch for “Rise of the Silver Surfer” (2007), which many superhero genre observers point to as 1)

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‘Blade’ (1998) becomes Marvel’s first successful big-screen outing

It’s perhaps strange that “Blade” (1998) became the first successful big-screen enterprise for Marvel Comics, considering that he’s not one of the A-list superheroes, and

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A look at the MCU’s Phase Four movies and TV shows

July 21, 1969, had the moon landing. Fifty years later, July 21, 2019, had everyone talking about a batch of movies and TV shows that

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‘Fantastic Four’ (2005) a safe, respectable introduction

“Fantastic Four” (2005) was hurt by coming out five years after “X-Men” and at a time when moviegoers had seen next-level genre films like “Spider-Man

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‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’s’ cornball rom-com humor hits the spot

Two of Peter’s classmates have a whirlwind romance on a school field trip. Nick Fury is grumpy about his calls going to voicemail. And to

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Talalay’s ‘Tank Girl’ (1995) is a stylish misfire

It’s hard to take a movie seriously when the movie doesn’t take itself seriously, and that’s why “Tank Girl” (1995) isn’t good. Still, it is

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Dark Spidey duology wraps with ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ (2014)

Similar to “Spider-Man 3” (2007), so much is going on in “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” (2014) that – even if all that stuff is pretty

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‘Amazing Spider-Man’ (2012) experiments with a darker tone

Like what the Dark Knight Trilogy is to the 1990s “Batman” movies, and what the 21st century “Superman” films are to the Christopher Reeve versions,

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‘Punisher’ gets reimagined as a gore flick in ‘War Zone’ (2008)

Frank Castle, a.k.a. the Punisher, finally got his full story told in the recent Netflix series, but before that, cinema took the tactic of reimagining

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