Superman: The Blog

There’s been lots of news and reports about Warner Home Video’s plans for 2023, so let’s get right to the nuts and bolts of it all… Last week Warner Bros. announced its plans for its 100th anniversary in 2023 which will encompass its vast library of films, television series, animation, digital releases, and home video,…

One of the silver screen’s most beautiful and talented actresses, Valerie Perrine has lit up the screen with her warmth and humor and diverse range. From portraying Dustin Hoffman’s wife in Lenny, to films such as Can’t Stop the Feeling with the Village People, to a memorable cameo as a female police officer in The…

In my last blog I commented about the many ways I have watched Superman: The Movie over the years – theatrically, television, VHS, laserdisc, DVD, Blu-ray, streaming – but there’s one I’d like to talk about that goes way back to my youth in those pre-VCR days. If you’re of a certain age like me,…

Some movies just impact your life forever. You’re in the right place at the right time, and a certain movie just grabs hold and stays in your mind and heart and never lets you go. For me in my generation, there are two such movies. One is the original Star Wars, without all of the…

When we think of Sarah Douglas, one role immediately comes to mind: the villainous Ursa in Superman and Superman II. While we saw very little of her in the first film, mainly relegated to the opening trial on Krypton and her banishment to the Phantom Zone, it wasn’t until Superman II that Sarah’s full range…

“You had one job!” How many times have we seen memes or gifs of comical mistakes or huge gaffes that cause us to laugh? Like seeing a Star Wars pendant in Star Trek packaging? Or the guy who drives a forklift into a shelf and causes multiple shelves and products to tumble down like a…

In late November we lost film director Albert Pyun at the age of 66 to multiple sclerosis. In his career he directed numerous B-grade films including The Sword and the Sorcerer, Alien from L.A., Cyborg, and the first film version of Captain America, among others. And yet it seems unusual that he was at one…

When I first wrote this commentary back in 2017, it had come at a most difficult time with the passing of my mother. As I tended to her final arrangements and my return to Mississippi for her memorial service, this commentary became an escape for me at times. I was able to handle both accordingly:…

It began with one person’s dream to bring the film back to its original sensibility. Before long, people began to contribute their time and resources to make Superman II: Restored International Cut a reality. And this was at a time before terms such as crowdfunding and GoFundMe entered our lexicon, some with success (The Chosen)…

When we think of fan films, we think of underground projects done with very little to almost no money, done for the love of the project with a tip of the hat to those films that inspired us. For me the very first one that comes to my mind is Hardware Wars, a hilarious takeoff…