Spike Lee's version, called 'Prince of Cats', will be based on a graphic novel and set back in the 1980s during hip-hop's rise - including essentials such as DJing, emceeing, breakdancing, and graffiti.
It's time for us art snobs to face facts: the MCU is better than we want to admit.
'Avengers: Infinity War' brought to the forefront the seemingly ultimate stake in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: death. However, death isn’t the only stake that's been driving things forward.
We're back with special guest Aaron Pruner to talk about the Disney takeover of Fox becoming official, new shows on the horizon that are worth checking out, and whether there's too many streaming services out there to be sustainable.
Preacher Season 3 continues its upwards trends towards the outlandish, and while that results in the most comic book feeling season yet, it can definitely over indulge in the excess - leaving things feeling far less consequential.
Superheroes are sweeping the mainstream and dominating the box office, but why now? Is this a sign of a shift to an altruistic majority?
We're back and joined by guests and frequent contributors Shannon Griffiths and Stephen Silver to talk about the latest happenings in film and TV - what is must watch, the recent wave of blockbuster films, and releases just around the corner. And we discuss whether we think 'fanboyism' has started to become to toxic to the very things they love.
"Ready Player One" may be the latest most egregious manifestation of nerd-pandering to date, but entertainment directed at nerds and geeks, clearly, isn't going anywhere, nor should it. A lot of it, after all, is quite great. I just ask filmmakers, and the studios supporting them, to be more respectful of their audience, and the audience, in turn, to dial back the toxicity.
Black Panther may not be perfect in the technical department but incredible roles by its cast, the MCU's greatest villain yet, an impossibly cool setting, and a super hero with real emotional bite more than make up for any of it's shortcomings. I couldn't help but walk out of the theater beaming with pride and optimism for the future - and at the end of the day isn't that what super heroes are all about?
DC and Marvel have truly become the Apple and Samsung of the movie world and seem to be exercising a duopoly on the rest of the movie industry, with no signs of slowing down.
The Justice League is here (and believe me, I am here for Wonder Woman) but Thor is the true ruler of the box office. If you're trying to decide between Justice League and Thor: Ragnarok this holiday weekend, and you want the most bang for your buck, the latter will leave you feeling just dandy about spending ten bucks of your hard-earned cash and chuckling all the way home.
In the last few decades, pop culture and entertainment have unapologetically co-opted mainstream comics, using their content to fuel a billion dollar industry. What most people don't realize, however, is that there's a wealth of world-class comics with stories you'll never see represented at the megaplexes. These are books focuses on topics of subculture, such as music, identity and the marginalized, and they're some of the most compelling and well-crafted comics in the world.
If you thought the discourse about Todd Phillips' 'Joker' was tiresome before the movie was actually released, then you ain't seen nothing yet.
A lifelong comics collector recently donated his entire collection of more than 180,000 comics, magazines, related books, and other items to the University of Southern Carolina Libraries.
The goons who have spent the last few years claiming that film critics are bribed by Disney have now taken to claiming a new conspiracy theory: That the box office results themselves are rigged.
'The Umbrella Academy' couples fantastic characters with a wholly interesting world, and relationships with real emotional weight to create one of the greatest comic book adapted shows ever made. Marvel who?
Stan Lee was larger than life. What will we do without him?
Check out some of this past weeks most talked about and interesting film trailers like Aquaman, Shazam!, Glass, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Disenchantment, and more.
We're back and we're talking about the biggest movie of the year, Avengers: Infinity War. But before we dive all in, we talk about Michelle Wolf's brutal roast at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and subsequent backlash and give our spoiler-free reactions to the movie. Then we hold back nothing talking about all the scenes of Infinity War, analyzing potential meanings, and theories for the future.
Jessica Jones is vastly different than any other super hero property out there so if you go into it with that mindset there a fairly interesting dramatic, pseudo-noir story being told here; along with answers to long running questions about her past and potential for future highly personal conflicts.
We're back with the first new show of 2018 and we open things up by taking care of some housecleaning, discussing our holidays and resolutions for the new year, then movie into impressions of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the backlash Dave Chappelle is facing and whether we think society is too easily offended. Then we end things talking about shows and movies we've been watching over the holidays and if Oprah is a bit of a hypocrite.
Season 1 of Netflix and Marvel's The Punisher was a step back in the right direction for both companies. They managed to finish the story they started in Daredevil, introduce a great new character in Micro, and show a whole different side to The Punisher than we've ever seen before. However, I hope in Season 2 we get a lot more Punisher and a lot less Frank Castle and more action sequences that can match the high mark left from Season 2 of Daredevil.
In this final installment of the Culture of Comics series, we are taking a look at comic creators who transcend the comic book medium in ways which liken their works more closely to forms of what is considered, "high art."
Season 2 of Preacher improves upon everything you loved about Season 1 and cranks the craziness up to an even greater level. It's as funny and as sharp as ever thanks to some phenomenal writing, acting, and dialogue that keeps things grounded even in a world as outlandish as this one. In short, Season 2 of Preacher is some of the best TV I've seen in the past 5 years and it's a show that everyone should be talking about.