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The DC Universe has expanded with not just a new film, “Clayface” directed by James Watkins, but a whole new genre: horror. Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries), a former poor kid from Gotham City who has grown up into a rising star in the film industry, makes a big mistake when he sleeps with a gangster’s…

What’s the best year in movie history? That’s a loaded question! Does it mean the year with the most good movies? The year with an outsized impact on the industry at large? The year when all the good movies succeeded at the box office and the bad ones flopped? Is it 1990 just because that’s…

For the first time in nearly 20 years, a new “Street Fighter” movie is in theaters. Hailing from Legendary Entertainment and Paramount Pictures, the latest adaptation of the beloved Capcom fighting game series features a star-studded cast. Many members of the cast undoubtedly will be familiar to viewers as it’s a stacked, A-list ensemble. For instance:…

Still active to this day, Alan Dean Foster has authored numerous original sci-fi novels and adaptations of pop sci-fi properties. “Star Wars” fans know him as the ghostwriter of 1976’s “Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker” (which was credited to George Lucas) and the author of 1978’s “Splinter of the Mind’s Eye,” among…

Director Phillip Noyce’s 2010 film “Salt” was something of a success, making over $290 million in theaters on a $130 million budget and earning the great Roger Ebert’s seal of approval. Yet, somehow, it remains obscure. Really, it’s hard to see why it wasn’t a bigger hit. It’s a slick, action-packed spy thriller starring the…

These days, Jason Momoa is revelling in the box office success of “A Minecraft Movie” while also recovering from a less than stellar DC Universe debut as Lobo in the box office failure that was “Supergirl.” Still, we’ll no doubt see more of Momoa’s Lobo as the DCU rolls on, which means there’ll almost certainly be…

Many of the “Gilligan’s Island” cast members worked together on other projects. For instance, Alan Hale Jr. and Jim Backus had a “Gilligan’s Island” reunion in a dismal 1979 action comedy that’s better left forgotten. Thankfully, their pre-“Gilligan’s Island” collaboration, “Advance to the Rear,” was much better, even if it has been mostly forgotten.

Film history is littered with unauthorized movie sequels. For example, John Howley’s 1989 animated film “Happily Ever After” was conceived as an unofficial “Snow White” sequel until Disney forced it to change its title. Heck, no less a classic than “Lawrence of Arabia” got the informal sequel treatment with the release of Christopher Menaul’s “A Dangerous…