While the 90's in general was one of the best decades for film overall, if there was one type of film that was woefully underrepresented, it was the comic book genre. Despite Batman being a zeitgeist tapping hit, the majority of the films based on comic books that came out in th... Read More »
Loosely based on the Mirage Studios comics, the animated series debuted in 1987 and centred on the adventures of four turtle siblings and their wise master, Splinter. While the series captured the imagination of kids throughout North America, it diverged from the original source ... Read More »
What can I do to convince you to watch Speed Racer? The deck is stacked pretty heavily against me. On its release, critics did everything they could to convince the public to stay away. For once the public listened, and the film barely made back a third of its budget on domest... Read More »
Animation pictures usually rely on the vocal talent to bring their creations to realistic life as well as drawing in a more adult audience by having such big names star in it. Dreamworks is no stranger to this by using these to make up for the fact they were a couple of detailed ... Read More »
Some films are classics right out of the gate. People see the genius and the power of it right away and it becomes canonized in the annals of greatness and stays there. Some films get warmly received right away before dropping off the cultural radar and become ignored at best o... Read More »
Dick Tracy (Beatty, 1990) is a production designer’s dream. Director/Producer/Star Warren Beatty went out of his way to make his film look as much as the Dick Tracy comic strips as possible (but only the Sunday ones, the weekly strip was in black and white). In so doing, he has... Read More »
