In the 1990s, Michael Jackson made a serious attempt to buy Marvel Comics. His goal wasn’t to grow a media empire—it was to play Spider-Man. At the time, Marvel was on the verge of collapse, filing ...

Naturally, when looking at a superhero movie, one must also analyze what source material it specifically looked to in order to craft the narrative. In the case of Spider-Man 2 there was a perfect ...

The Quick and Dead has one of Gene Hackman's best performances and is one of Sam Raimi's best films, so why aren't more ...

In the early days of the MCU, there were plans to connect the burgeoning franchise to Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy in a ...

The MCU has taken superhero movie fans by storm, but there have been a number of excellent pre-MCU Marvel movies that nobody ...

Promotions well after film releases, multiple cars and multiple series defined movie schemes in the early 2000s.

Adapted from the eponymous comic book by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., the film is a landmark in superhero cinema. It wasn’t a commercial success, nor did it turn the titular superhero into a ...

I’m always a sucker for multiversal storytelling. Infinite universes and realities with infinite possibilities. Alternate ...

Rather, below is a roundup of all the franchises that simply did not know when to quit; the ignominious sagas that continued ...

That emotional gut punch nearly kept him away from capes and chaos for good. Raimi stuck to horror and thrillers for years, ...