Articles tagged with comics

Continuing to adjust to life in the big city and absolutely uninterested in Adam Sandler's latest anyway, it's been a couple weeks since I've seen a film. Until then, I thought I'd address an issue I know is on everyone's minds these days: the Cinematic Marvel Universe.

For the uninitiated, the Marvel Universe refers to every character, plot, and setting owned by Marvel Publishing Group, the comic book publishers who own such familiar characters as Spider-Man, The...

When Marvel Entertainment announced that it would begin producing its own films starting with Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk and hired Louis Leterrier to helm the latter, the director stated that the difference between his Hulk film and the previous one was that his film “would be good.” That sarcastic remark notwithstanding, The Incredible Hulk offers a different if not markedly improved adaptation of the comic series.