Tripping Through Gateways
Entering the Alternate Worlds of the Movies
Month: June 2017
I Am the Law (Dredd, 2012)
When a new Judge Dredd film was announced, there was no real fanfare. What people did not realize is that the film was being written outside of the Hollywood scene. Alex Garland (writer of 28 Days Later and writer/director of Ex Machina)…Garland is a…
Rob Schneider in the Apocalypse (Judge Dredd, 1995)
Somebody looked at Sylvester Stallone’s chin and declared him perfect for the role of iconic British comic book character Judge Dredd. And they were not wrong: (I know I already showed this…but it seems relevant for the review) Anyhow, looking for a story, the…
The Art of Rebellion (Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD, 2014)
For Americans, the character they probably most recognized from the British comic book series 2000AD is Judge Dredd. But 2000AD actually had a whole host of characters spawned from its weekly pages. Almost all of them every bit as violent and over the top…
Bob vs Bill (Batman and Bill, 2017)
Everybody knows Batman. And most people know who Bob Kane is. He is the creator of Batman. Every Batman comic book tells you this. Right there in print. “Batman Created by Bob Kane”. Bob vehemently defended this idea that Batman was his creation and…
It’s All About Image (The Image Revolution, 2016)
“We broke Batman’s back. We killed Superman.” – Rob Liefeld The 90’s were an amazing time for comic books. It was the highlight of the speculator market, it was all about foil covers, and pouches. Characters with hundreds of pouches. In the early 90’s…
The Not So Fantastic Four (Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four, 2016)
You may think that there have been three Fantastic Four films. There were the two Tim Story film with Jessica Alba and Chris Evans…and the 2015 film with Miles Teller and Kate Mara. But there are tales of a first film, never seen by…
The Hunter or the Hunted? Pt 11 (Alien vs Predator: Requiem, 2007)
While critics and plenty of fans pummeled the first film, it was more than successful enough to get a sequel greenlit. Directed by the Brothers Strause (that is what they direct under), Requiem is a real mess in more ways than one. The cast…
The Hunter or the Hunted? Part 10 (Alien vs Predator, 2004)
The Predator films went quiet after the second film, and Alien films were stalled by Resurrection seven years earlier. In that time, there had been a series of successful Alien and Predator comics by publisher Dark Horse Comics. In 1990, Dark Horse brought the…
The Hunter or the Hunted? Pt 9 (Predators, 2010)
After the second film, the Predator series went dormant. The alien hunters only saw the screen in the “team up” Alien vs Predator films. It was not until about 2009 Predator was announced as getting it’s own new film. It was spearheaded by Robert…
The Hunter or the Hunted? Pt 8 (Predator 2, 1990)
Directed by Stephen Hopkins (Lost In Space, Nightmare on Elm Street 5 and Race), Predator 2 is an attempt at being very different. Instead of a jungle, we are in “the Concrete Jungle”. Instead of a heavily muscled soldier, we have have a team…
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