So often, especially recently, comic book movies have become dour and self-serious affairs. While superhero stories that are more grim than humorous are certainly not unusual in comics, there's a ...

Part of the beauty of an irreverent and fourth wall-shattering character like Deadpool is that his films allow for a lot of freedom for the filmmakers to have fun. A big part of that fun is packing in ...

"It's time we stop impersonating heroes, and we start to kick some mother f*!&ing ass!" How about a funny superhero parody to kick off the week? The first trailer has debuted for Joshua Hull's new ...

Too many superhero movies get lost in the attempt to navigate years or decades of comic-book lore, bending and compressing time in ungraceful ways. Origins are belabored into feature-length exposition ...

At a time when superheroes have taken over both the big and small screen, Amazon Prime Video has carved out a very specific niche: gritty, self-aware superhero satire. With The Boys and Invincible, ...

The first time you see the various wacky superheroes of The Awesomes, the new, enjoyable enough animated series created by Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers and Michael Shoemaker for Hulu, it’s in a ...

I always liked the idea of being Peter Parker's Spider Man. Fighting crime. Killing my best friend's dad. Spraying adhesive effluvia from my wrists. You know. Kid stuff. Then I grew up, and in the ...

Shazam may be the one superhero movie you can go see if you've never seen another superhero movie before. The film stands perfectly on its own two feet, and further signals Warner Brothers' shift ...

When a nerdy, down-on-his-luck teenager (Johnson) decides to take the law into his hands and don a wet suit/costume in the hopes of becoming a super hero by the name of Kick Ass, he finds himself the ...