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Studios love nothing more than a movie that’s guaranteed to bring in a minimum amount of money. Since movie making is always a gamble nothing gets green lighted as easy as a sequel to a box-office smash. Sometimes these perform so well a third installment is in the works in no time and so a…

2012 was a good year for comic book fans as it brought us movies like The Avengers and Christopher Nolan’s conclusion of his Dark Knight trilogy titled “The Dark Knight Rises”. Also in that year a new TV show was introduced: Arrow. A show about a DC comics character, the same publishing company that owns…

Today I came across an article with a title that pretty much covers it all: “Frozen” now no. 5 all-time at global box office. Ever since Frozen was released in november 2013 it seemed to have taken the world by snowstorm. It received good reviews, won an Oscar for best song and somehow is still…

If I was to describe The Bridge in one sentence it be something like “Se7en stretched out over 10 hours”. The similarities are hard to ignore: Two very different police inspectors/detectives investigate a series of murders that have a common theme. In Seven it where the seven deadly sins, in The Bridge it’s inequality for…

Just a mere two weeks after I finished watching the entire series of The Sopranos for the first time the Writers Guild of America named it the best-written show in television history. It’s just another appraisal for a TV-series that has become legendary and is known to be responsible for bringing TV shows to a…

When you were comic book fan before 1998 you had it really bad in terms of movie adaptations. Sure you had Superman and Batman in 2 good motion pictures but for every good comic book adaptation you had at least a dozen failed ones, most of them even terrible. I became infatuated with the Spider-man…

Growing up in the 80s it was hard to ignore He-Man and the Masters of the Universe since this was “the cartoon” until Transformers and G.I. Joe came along. I owned some toys and watched the cartoon avidly, I always had a soft spot for it during the 80s but times changed and somehow it…

For the last month the song Runaway by Del Shannon has been in my head, the reason for it is Crime Story, a short-lived cop show that ran from 1986 to 1988 and lasted only two seasons. Crime Story became a bit of cult classic of the years, though it never reached the level of…

Over the last few months I’ve revisited a classic TV-Series: The X-Files. No small feat mind you, as this show ran for 9 seasons consisting of a total of 202 episodes and two theatrical movies. Every weekday I watched at least two episodes which still resulted in taking at least five months to watch it…

A couple of months go I reviewed “Single White Female” and concluded it was one of those forgotten movies. This week I watched Brainscan, another movie I would call a forgotten movie. This triggered my curiosity and made me look through old movie catalogs I still own and explore how certain movies became forgotten in…

Dear Mr. Ebert,I recently stumbled across the special “Women in Danger” episode of Sneak Previews you did with the late Gene Siskel. Having watched it, it stirred something in me that made me want to give you my opinion about that particular show even though it’s been 32 years. I’m well aware that I have…

Watch out: spoilers ahead!When I was watching The Dark Knight Rises last week the final showdown between Bane and Batman reminded me of Rocky. Batman is fighting an opponent who has proven he’s stronger than him in a fist fight, at one point Batman hits him right on his mask which then starts to break….