Continuing our recap of the very first screen appearance of a comic book superhero, the Republic serial Adventures of Captain Marvel from 1941. I apologize for the length, but I’m trying to only spend …
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Sunday, February 19th, 2012 Tags: Captain Marvel, Movies, serial, superhero Category: Super Movie Monday No Comments 
Continuing our recap of the very first onscreen appearance of a comic book superhero, Republic Pictures’ Adventures of Captain Marvel from 1941. As Chapter 1 ended, Betty and Whitey were in a car on …
Read More >Sunday, February 12th, 2012 Tags: Captain Marvel, comics, superhero Category: Super Movie Monday No Comments
Okay, I’ll have to apologize in advance, because I went a little screen-cap crazy on this one. But you’ll see why once we get into it.
I wanted to cover this serial last year during …
Read More >Sunday, February 5th, 2012 Tags: Captain Marvel, Movies, serial, superhero Category: Super Movie Monday 1 Comment
So now we come to the conclusion of our recap of the big budget sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. When we left off last week after a mostly …
Read More >Sunday, January 29th, 2012 Category: Super Movie Monday 1 Comment
Two years after last week’s film, the Fantastic Four returned in 2007′s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Featuring the same principal cast, one of the same screenwriters, and the same …
Read More >Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 Tags: Fantastic Four, Movies, superhero Category: Super Movie Monday No Comments
Continuing the recap of 2005′s big-budget feature adaptation of Marvel’s Fantastic Four. When we left off last week, Victor Von Doom was mutating. His skin and bones were turning to metal, plus he had magnetic and …
Read More >Sunday, January 15th, 2012 Tags: Fantastic Four, Movies, superhero Category: Super Movie Monday No Comments
Live-action success for Marvel’s original superhero team, the Fantastic Four, was a long time coming. They were featured in cartoon series over the years, from Hanna Barbera in the 60′s to DePatie/Freleng in the 70′s (in …
Read More >Sunday, January 8th, 2012 Tags: Fantastic Four, Movies, superhero Category: Super Movie Monday No Comments
Continuing our look back at 2003′s Daredevil, starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner and Colin Farrell. As we concluded last week, the Kingpin (Michael Clarke Duncan) had just hired Irish hitman Bullseye to kill his errant henchman, Nikolas …
Read More >Sunday, December 11th, 2011 Tags: Daredevil, Frank Miller, Movies, superhero Category: Super Movie Monday No Comments
Yeah, you read that right. Imma’ spend two weeks on this joint, or whatever cool guys say. And yeah, that title card above is made up of three different elements from the clever opening credit sequence. I …
Read More >Sunday, December 4th, 2011 Tags: Daredevil, Movies, superhero Category: Super Movie Monday No Comments
Since yesterday’s Vault featured a man trapped in a robotic suit, I figured why not continue the theme with 1987′s Robocop? Directed by Paul Verhoeven from a script by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, Robocop tells the …
Read More >Sunday, November 27th, 2011 Tags: Frank Miller, Movies, Robocop, superhero Category: Super Movie Monday 1 Comment