You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! The train continues as we celebrate the god of action movies: Arnold Schwarzenegger! But every action hero must try new things, and Arnold is no exception. It’s not a new concept in Hollywood to take the manly man and dress him in
With very little to go on, Beware the Batman has raised a lot of questions about the nature of the show. This year’s San Diego Comic-Con gave us our first chance to speak with creators Mitch Watson and Glen Murakami and find out what will be coming for fans in this new incarnation of the
Starting with 2005’s Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan gave the world a new-and-improved Batman. Gone were the familiar flashy comic book stereotypes, replaced by a dark, gritty hero of today’s world in a realistic noir vibe. Batman Begins captured the imagination of comic fans and proved Batman could be more than what he had (d)evolved into
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! It’s Comic Con this week and were still rocking along with Arnold Schwarzenegger month! What could be better I ask you? So we decided what better movie to do this week that combines both those things: That would be none other than
On the 20-year anniversary of Naoko Takeuchi’s classic manga Sailor Moon, a new addition to the Sailor Moon franchise was announced today. The new anime adaptation of the Sailor Moon manga was announced at a live event celebrating the series’ 20th birthday by creator Naoko Takeuchi, publisher Kodansha and the idol group Momoiro Clover Z,
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! It’s all action here at the Movie Issues HQ as we celebrate Arnold Schwarzenegger month! That’s right! Five weeks of our favorite action star Schwarzenegger, and first up: The Running Man. This 1987 movie has our boy Arnold wrongfully accused of a
It could be said that Spider-man is the franchise that proved to the world that comic book based movies could be successful if treated popular. After Batman & Robin the entire genre nearly doubled over and died of shame until X-Men was released in 2000. Reinforcing the legitimacy of the superhero genre Spider-manbroke records and comic book fans
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! This week the boys travel to meet the Amazon Women on the Moon. This 1987 satirical comedy parodies the experience of watching low-budget movie on late night TV. Brought together by directors Joe Dante and John Landis, the movie is made up of 21 shorts
Ted is the first feature film from writer/director Seth MacFarlane, who is most known as the creator of animated TV series Family Guy and American Dad. After the success of those series, it wasn’t a big surprise that he’d take on a big-budget comedy film. Ted is a simple story about a boy, John, who