When Crime Becomes Comfort: A Review of Roofman
Dan Kleiner “Criminals are cold and calculating. You’ve got the calculating part down, but you’re goofy.” Channing Tatum shows remarkable depth while Kirsten Dunst knocks it out of the park in the…
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Fantastic Four’s First Steps Stumble on the Way Home
Brian Isaacs - Executive Editor / Publisher Fans had been waiting years for the Fantastic Four to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For decades the rights were held by 20th Century Fox, and only after Disney’s 2019…
Superman Soars Again in Home Release
When James Gunn was first announced as the director of DC’s new Superman reboot, skepticism was high. Could he bring something fresh to a character so tied to history and…
Talking with Thomas Snigoski and Jeannine Acheson
Anthony Andujar Jr. Thomas E. Snigoski and Jeannine Acheson are longtime collaborators whose creative partnership has spanned comics and prose, most notably with their work on Vampirella, Vampiverse, Pantha, and Vampirella: Dark Reflections.…
Talking With Roberta Sammarco
Italian illustrator Roberta Sammarco discovered her path to comics through her father’s Bonelli Tex collection and her brother’s PlayStation games, where watching Spider-Man swing across virtual skylines sparked a fascination…
HIM: A Dark Playbook for Glory and Sacrifice
“Don’t be a mascot.” For much of the runtime, Justin Tipping’s Him telegraphs its intentions so clearly that the movie might as well have runway lights. However, the movie pulls…
Anime NYC 2025 Through My Eyes: A Diary of Encounters and Creativity
This year, I had the privilege of attending Anime NYC 2025. In the same vein as having covered press for Comic-Con since 2022, after a decade of writing reviews on…
‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 Brings Back John Cena’s Helmeted Vigilante for Another Round of Unpredictable Storytelling
Peacemaker blasts back onto Max for an all-new, eight-episode second season, and the chaos, comedy, and carnage have never been better. Christopher “Chris” Smith, aka Peacemaker, returns with his absurdly…
Bob Odenkirk Brings Bloody Bonding Time in Nobody 2
“I knew you were dangerous the moment I met you. You were covered in blood.” Nobody 2 is an assassin-action-family-comedy. It’s a warped version of 1983’s National Lampoon’s Vacation if,…
Daniel Dae Kim Leads a Stylish New Thriller in “Butterfly”
Newsdesk In Butterfly, the shadows of espionage conceal wounds far deeper than bullets or betrayals, as a father and daughter find themselves on opposite ends of a deadly mission neither can…