The best movies of 2014 are an eclectic bunch, featuring among them a talking raccoon, a teenager stuck in purgatory, a quartet of finger-snapping singers, talking toys, mysterious murders, alien invasions, and enough mutants and superheroes to fill a galaxy. One trait they share? They’re all worth watching again and again.
There’s no shortage of science fiction and fantasy movies to look forward to this year, many of them based on some of our favorite books and graphic novels. In fact, we won’t have to go much more than a month between adaptations, and these movies are not, as a rule, being done on the cheap. The directors […]
Are we in a golden age of comic book movies? There have been more hits than misses in the past few years, and the studios have learned that fans will make even the most unexpected properties (Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man) a hit if they stay true to the spirit of the comics. We look to be […]
It’s been almost 12 years since a science fiction or fantasy film got any major love at Oscar time (and prior to that, it had been…uhm, basically never). Peter Jackson’s butt-busting adaption of J.R.R. Tolkien’s equally epic The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King went home with the Best Picture prize, and grabbed […]