Bane Broke Batman’s Back 32 Years Ago and The Dark Knight Has Never Really Recovered
32 years ago today, Bane became the first ever character to break the Batman, and he left a permanent mark on the Dark Knight. In Batman #497, chapter eleven of the “Knightfall” storyline, Bane broke into the Batcave, beat a battered and exhausted Batman to a pulp, and shattered his spine over his knee. He […]
7 Most Memorable Kills in the A Nightmare on Elm Street Franchise
A Nightmare on Elm Street collage Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street kicked off not just a successful franchise, but a pop culture phenomenon as well. Yet, at its core, it has the same appeal as the Friday the 13th franchise: particularly inventive kills. And, throughout six mainline films, an early example of meta […]
40 Years On, Why Aren’t There More Alpha Flight Stories?
Almost 40 years ago, the Marvel Comics Universe officially heralded the arrival of Canada’s foremost superhero team – Alpha Flight – with the debut issue of its first, ongoing, standalone series. It was a momentous occasion for a team that was initially created as a one-time challenge to the X-Men, but which ultimately captured the […]
Wonder Woman Lied While Using the Lasso of Truth And Now We’re Questioning Everything
Wonder Woman’s Lasso of Truth is one of, if not the most iconic weapon in all of DC. This golden thread, uncurled from the very harp of Hera herself, is an unbreakable fiber that can bind anyone and anything it is wrapped around. The Golden Perfect has the power to extract the truth from whoever […]
PlayStation Plus Subscribers Are Losing Their Free Access to One of the Best PS5 Horror Games
PlayStation Plus subscribers are losing free access to one of the very best PS5 horror games. The good news for PS Plus Essential subscribers is they never had access to this PS Plus free game to begin with. The bad news for PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium subscribers is this is not the […]
The Original Plan for This Ghostbusters Favorite Would Have Changed the Franchise Forever
Ghostbusters features one of the most iconic and recognizable ensemble casts of any feature film released in the 1980s. In the years since the flick’s 1984 debut, the faces of the core characters have been plastered all over various forms of merchandising; the key players have appeared in multiple animated spinoffs; and each of the […]
This Is Still the Best Arrowverse Crossover (And It’s Not Even Close)
Flash, White Canary, the Green Arrow, and Steel in Crisis on Earth X. The early days of the Arrowverse kept things simple: heroes fought villains on their shows and, from time to time, one of their buddies would come into town for a crossover. However, as more DC Comics-related shows found their way onto The […]
I Think The Most Hated Mission: Impossible Movie is Actually One of the Best
Image courtesy of Paramount Pictures Twenty-five years since its release, John Woo’s Mission: Impossible 2 is often regarded as the most divisive and arguably disliked entry in the franchise, but it’s easily my pick for the Mission: Impossible MVP. In Mission: Impossible 2, Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt, ace spy for the shadowy IMF […]
5 Best DC Characters You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
DC Comics is known for having some of the most popular characters in the entire world. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash are just a few of DC’s big names, and each and every one of them is known around the world, well outside the normal superhero or comic book circles. These characters transcend […]
5 Worst Fan-Service Moments In Disney’s Star Wars
Screengrabs from Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and The Book of Boba Fett (2018/2019/2021) The Disney era of Star Wars media has had its highs and lows, just like all eras of Star Wars productions. Star Wars in the 80s, for instance, produced both The Empire Strikes Back and […]
