Steven Spielberg is arguably the greatest filmmaker in popular culture. He burst on the scene in 1975, scaring the pants off audiences with the first official summer blockbuster – JAWS. Coming into the 1980’s and early 90’s, Spielberg continued his box office and pop culture dominance directing such iconic films as E.T., Raiders of the […]

9/11 changed the world. As the Twin Towers fell in New York City on that fateful day, so too did the safety and comfort of the Western World. No longer were any of us living in a carefree state where bad things only happened ‘over there.’ We were now the target – and in the […]

Tomb Raider is one of the most successful video game franchises around. The video game, first released in 1993, and its successive sequels have sold tens of millions of copies the world over. The series was such a triumph, it spawned two major motion pictures in the early 2000’s. Now Tomb Raider is trying to […]

Warner Bros. is amping up its courtship of the Clown Prince of Crime. In the past few weeks, WB made headlines by conjuring up the possibility of a stand-alone Joker film. This movie would be an origin story and a crime drama set in the 1980s. But most interesting is that it’s to be set […]

This past Friday, fans of Marvel’s Netflix series were treated to an event two years in the making—Marvel’s The Defenders was finally released. In April 2015, Marvel’s Daredevil dropped on Netflix and the show became a runaway hit. Not only did Daredevil garner a second season, but Netflix created an entire universe of second-tier, New […]

Sinestro is dead. So too is Hal Jordan. This is the aftermath of Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps first Rebirth storyline, Sinestro’s Law. But as with any comic series, heroes and villains can always return from the afterlife. This is one of the storylines from Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps second […]

While Warner Bros. and  DC’s Justice League is not hitting theatres until mid-November, one clear stand-out from the movie’s trailers has come from an unlikely source. One would think Batman, the Dark Knight himself, would emerge as the front-runner that everyone is clamouring to see. But he hasn’t. Or Wonder Woman; the Amazonian Princess, whose […]

Summer movie season is a time for superheroes, space battles, and random stupid rom-coms. But this July, Dunkirk was released—a bonafide Oscar contender that opened amidst films like War for the Planet of the Apes, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. All these movies had massive marketing campaigns, obscene budgets, […]

It’s that time of year again, when pop culture nerds travel from all over the globe to visit the Mecca of Geekdom: San Diego Comic-Con. Humbly beginning in 1970, San Diego Comic-Con has grown into an event unlike any other. According to comic-con.org, attendance has reached up to 130,000 in the past few years. An […]

Mister Freeze. Poison Ivy. Mad Hatter—three of Batman’s villains who hold a particular place in the Caped Crusader’s Rogues Gallery. Now, these criminals are not the Dark Knight’s top tier of villains in the rare air held by the Joker, the Penguin, Catwoman or the Riddler. However, they are baddies that have entertained readers for […]