by Jeff Michael Vice | May 21, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
Bryan Singer kicked off the X-Men movie franchise with a pair of high-concept action-thrillers (in 2000 and 2002) that used the beloved Marvel Comics characters and concepts as a way to confront and address xenophobia and homophobia, something the comics’...
by Jeff Michael Vice | Apr 30, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
For all the things the first Amazing Spider-Man movie did right, it failed in several other, equally important respects. For one thing, it failed to develop a villain that was anywhere close to being as interesting or as integral to the plot as its title character....
by Jeff Michael Vice | Apr 1, 2014 | Reviews
What has set the Marvel movies apart from expected, somewhat run-of-the-mill super hero movies based upon comics material from other companies and books is their ability to change genres — yet do so in a strong, compelling fashion. For example, the three Iron...
by Jeff Michael Vice | Nov 8, 2013 | Reviews
Balance. It’s an important aspect that was missing from Marvel’s Thor. For all its sense of grandeur and its widescreen digital visuals, the first Thor movie was a mini-triumph of style over substance. Based on Norse mythology and the various and varied Marvel...
