Landis offers his own take on this monumentous moment in Superman: American Alien #4, contextualizing the confrontation as the capstone to Clark’s arrival in the Big Apricot and his fateful first encounters with a number of its most prominent denizens
There’s no denying that the latest iteration of Mary Shelley’s classic is pretty terrible.
While American Alien will explore Clark’s vulnerabilities and alienation through his formative years, it’s heartening to see Landis understand that the character’s fundamental humanity is what keeps him from truly being an alien
As entertaining as it is flawed, ‘American Ultra’ is sure to divide audiences with its haphazard mix of ultra-violence and heartfelt romance. A gleefully-belligerent experiment in style that thumbs its nose at your expectations.
The migration of filmmakers from the big screen to the small one is not a new phenomenon, but another team was formally inducted this weekend, with the Wachowskis’ Netflix series Sense8 making its debut. The duo join the ranks of others such as Steven Soderbergh, and they are far from the last ones, as Steve …
Chronicle Directed by Josh Trank Screenplay by Max Landis 2012, UK / USA Director Josh Trank and screenwriter Max Landis (son of filmmaker John Landis), put a fresh, invigorating spin on the superhero origin story, with Chronicle, a movie so sleek and incredibly ultra-portable, it suggests better things to come from the duo. The two …
Chronicle Directed by Josh Trank Written by Max Landis 2012, USA / UK The more comic books one has read, the less original the plot of Chronicle might seem. The idea of “what would happen if real teenagers got real superpowers in the really real world” has been done many times in that format, and …
Chronicle Directed by Josh Trank Screenplay by Max Landis 2012, UK / USA There’s no more horrifying an idea than one film being both a super hero and found footage vehicle. On their own, they are blights on the release schedule; putting them together in one picture is unutterably disheartening. The unlucky product of this …