John and Vin are back at it again, this time with a discussion about The Bride! starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale. The film was directed and written by Maggie Gyllenhaal and based on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, with cinematography by Lawrence Sher, edited by Dylan Tichenor and music by Hildur Guðnadóttir. Did Vin and John enjoy The Bride! at all?
Read MoreWhen the credits roll on Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! it’s impossible to think that anyone would come away from it having no strong feelings, to say the least. The film acts as a complete revamping of the 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein, which changes everything about it from the settings to the central framing of its story. Gyllenhaal follows up her
Read MoreJohn and Vin are back to talk about the new film from director Guillermo del Toro, based on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The two compare their memories of reading the book as well as other film adaptations of the classic novel, before diving into the new film more. They discuss Jacob Elordi’s fantastic performance as The Monster, what worked in the
Read MoreLast week, I had the opportunity to visit Universal Studios’ newest theme park in Orlando, Florida: Universal Epic Universe! This is the first major theme park to open in the United States in two decades and finally levels the playing field between the Universal Orlando Resort and Walt Disney World, which has four theme parks in Orlando. As a major fan
Read MoreSince his contributions to the DC Extended Universe at the start of the decade (first with The Suicide Squad followed by Peacemaker season 1) filmmaker James Gunn’s soft reboot of the DC Universe has been an impressive feat, now with his seven-episode miniseries, Creature Commandos. Taking its title from J.M. DeMatteis, Robert Kanigher, and Fred Carrillo’s 1980-83 comic book stories of
Read MoreFrankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown is a 3-issue miniseries by Jeff Lemire. Set in the Flashpoint timeline, the comic follows an outcast team of monsters from the 1940s with ties to the Creature Commandos and the Agents of S.H.A.D.E. Lemire is a well-known of writer of many critically-acclaimed comics, including Moon Knight, Sweet Tooth, Essex County, and the Eisner Award-winning
Read MoreAwoooooo!! Welcome to the Werewolf by Night comics reading guide! After the Comics Code Authority relaxed in 1971, Marvel wasted no time in launching new monster horror comics, with Werewolf by Night and Tomb of Dracula both debuting in 1972. Created by Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, and Mike Ploog (with a little input from Stan Lee), the idea of a werewolf
Read MoreWhile working on my recent comic reading guides, I started connecting some dots between the upcoming Werewolf by Night special and other comic monsters we could potentially see in the MCU in the future. Gael Garcia Bernal’s Werewolf by Night could naturally connect to a potential Midnight Sons project, but what else Marvel Studios could do with the character? What about
Read MoreAround the time of publication of part three of my and Anthony Flagg’s ongoing series about the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse Marcoverses, our amazingly talented editor Ms. Lizzie Hill proposed an idea about an offshoot article. She threw out the idea of exploring the Monsterverse within the MCM and how that would naturally grow from projects already announced and those rumored to
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