Short version: expect to enjoy it if you’ve enjoyed Marvel’s other films. Stay for extra scenes both during and after the credits.
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Wonder Woman Trailer
While the DC Cinematic Universe lags behind their Marvel counterpart, they have managed to correct one glaring oversight of the more successful brand: a female-led superhero movie.
October Countdown Review: “Trick ‘r Treat”
“Charlie Brown’s an a
sshole!”
Completed in 2007 and unable to find release until 2009, Trick r Treat has since become a critical and seasonal cult hit. Made in homage to the horror comix of yore, these interwoven tales capture the essential October 31 like few films in history.
October Countdown Review: Dracula vs Frankenstein (1971)
The fear will fully energize the molecular structure of your blood!
–Count Dracula
You would have expected that Universal would have released a movie called Dracula vs Frankenstein, since they paired the famous monsters on more than one occasion. They didn’t. As though to establish some cosmic balance for the oversight, the early 1970s saw three films by this title. The definitive movie by this title is Al Adamson’s drive-in shlockfest, which manages to be the last horror film for aging veterans J. Carroll Naish and Lon Chaney, Jr., and features a cameo by Famous Monsters publisher Forrest J. Ackerman.
It’s a truly terrible movie, one tier above the Ed Wood oeuvre, and yet, peculiarly enjoyable. Certainly, it’s better than the others, which will also be reviewed today as part of our Halloween Countdown.
October Review: Dracula vs Frankenstein (1971)
In this Spanish/German/Italian film, a detective’s investigation turns up a plot by aliens to revive and duplicate earth’s most famous monsters in order to conquer the planet. Originally released as Los Monstruos del Terror and under various titles in translation, it eventually came to be another Dracula vs Frankenstein, perhaps in order to cash in on the cult success of Adamson’s movie. Alas, the vampire in this film isn’t Count Dracula, and he doesn’t fight Frankenstein’s Monster, who does, however, duke it out with star werewolf, Waldemar Daninsky.
October Discussion: Dracula vs Frankenstein (1969)
The third (as of this writing) Dracula vs Frankenstein fell to Spain, and cult/exploitation director Jesús Franco.
Shot around the same time as Adamson’s film, this one is also a loose sequel to Franco’s Dracula, Christopher Lee’s non-Hammer excursion as the vampire lord.
Although released before the others, it didn’t receive the title until later in its history.
Teaser Trailer for Logan
The latest (and presumably last) Wolverine movie is coming out next March. The scale and scope of this one seems very personal (helped along by some nice Johnny Cash music).
And who doesn’t want a road trip movie with Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart?
A First Look at Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
The team is back for more fun.
October Review: Shin Godzilla (2016)
It’s a new era for the Big G in Japan. There’s a new Emperor, and with that usually comes a changing of the continuity and a changing the tone of the series. This week the latest Godzilla film, Shin Godzilla, has gotten a limited release in the US. I saw today, and it’s time to give my thoughts. Continue reading →
Daredevil (2003) – Silver Screen Superheroes #46
The latest topic in Silver Screen Superheroes is Daredevil (2003), starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner.