Every week, we attempt to answer a new pop culture related question. This week's edition of /Answers asks the following: Which is your favorite comic book movie adaptation? And when we say comic book movies, we don't just mean superhero movies.
Ever since the release of Taken , Liam Neeson has established himself as one of the most popular leading men in the action genre. That reputation has only been enhanced thanks to the likes of Unknown , Non-Stop and Run All Night .
If you cried while staring empathetically into the eyes of a giant ape in Sir Peter Jackson's remake of the movie King Kong , then you have experienced the incredible human expression research of Dr Mark Sagar. The Oscar winning Auckland University professor combines his skills in mathematics, engineering, and art and is about to totally change how we interact with computers.
George A. Romero still insists, whenever chance occasions the opportunity, that Night of the Living Dead is not a film about race - that the bitterly ironic ending, in which the black hero is mistaken for a zombie and shot dead by a zealous band of white vigilantes, has no political import to speak of, and that anyway, how could it be, because star Duane Jones was cast strictly on the merit of his audition, and the screenplay never specified the colour of the character's skin. But if Romero's disavowals can't seem to quash the established reading - if that ending prevails nonetheless as a trenchant yawp against the violence of white supremacy - it is perhaps because the genre lends itself so readily to metaphor.
Horror films have proven to be quite a fertile playground for first time directors. Burgeoning filmmakers have been able to have fun and strut their stuff within the constraints of the genre, all without spending dozens of millions of dollars.
For the second year in a row Shock Till You Drop is excited to be co-sponsoring the horror culture component of the massive Niagara Falls Comic Con , located on the scenic Canadian side of Niagara Falls. And this year, they've got a slew of super guests.
A wonderful movie is a small miracle. So many things have to go right, and they usually don't.
" Jaws ," the mother of all summer blockbusters, launched the career of Steven Spielberg , brought fear to the mainstream and gave sharks around the world a theme song courtesy of John Williams . Its sequels are also leaving Netflix in March, but there's really nothing to mourn there.
It's been six years since Piranha 3DD , where we got a hefty dose of aquatic terror. Now it seems that IXFilm Group is making waters unsafe again with Piranha JPN: Summer of the Fish , as evidenced by the announcement on their website .