Showing posts with label Superheroes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Superheroes. Show all posts
Saturday, December 7, 2024

Chhota Bheem and the Inevitable Remake

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 It seems like every other day a new Bollywood cinematic universe begins, but the Spy Universe, the Cop Universe, and the Maddock Supernatur...
Saturday, August 5, 2023

It's the Village of People Who Don't Ask Follow Up Questions!

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Superheroes are associated with cities; Superman protects Metropolis, Batman lurks in Gotham, and Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends hang ou...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Take a look. It's in a book.

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 Chashme Bahaddar (2006) is not exactly a superhero movie.  It's certainly not a big budget Bollywood special effects extravaganza, it...
Saturday, November 26, 2022

Shiva Universe

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Brahmastra Part One: Shiva (2022) is a movie with a lot of jobs to do; it's a superhero origin story and the first film in a planned tr...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Whaaaat?

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 This is apparently real.  There's a long way to go between "announcement" and "actual movie that I can watch", but ...
Saturday, January 8, 2022

No, really. It was in the preface to "Anna Karenina and the Terror of the Shooting Tsar."

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 Leo Tolstoy once said that all superhero origins are alike, but every villain falls in his own way.  However, Tolstoy knows nothing about s...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

I'd like to be under the sea.

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As I write this, Sooryavanshi, the latest installment of Rohit Shetty's "Police Universe", is breaking all sorts of box office...
Saturday, July 10, 2021

The H stands for Hanuman

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A western movie can be adapted for Indian audiences in several different ways.  Sometimes you get a relatively faithful remake, though the s...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

Superman versus the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants

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 Krrish 3 (2013) is the sequel to Krrish , which is the sequel to Koi . . . Mil Gaya .  It's an odd way to build a superhero franchise,...