Although the genre has existed since way back in the early 20th century, it's been over the course of the 21st that the superhero movie genre has seen an unprecedented boom. But while many of these ...

While many superhero movies deliver perfect origin stories, some have been downright awful.Origin stories are the backbone of superhero cinema, meant to spark excitement, empathy, and purpose to ...

Studios know audiences know Superman and the Fantastic Four, so they're letting these heroes have more storytelling freedom. Reading time 4 minutes There’s a repeating theme across 2025’s major ...

Every live-action movie adaptation of Marvel's Incredible Hulk comic books so far has left out a crucial aspect of the ...

It was a topic that wasn't new to DC Studios co-CEO and writer/director James Gunn. Eight months later, his opinion on the matter has only grown stronger. Superhero origin stories. Just so there's no ...

Shane is a Movie Features Writer for Collider. He developed a strong passion for film and writing at an early age, and went on to study Writing, Communication, and Political Science at Siena College.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps was notable in not devoting much screen time to the team’s origins. The MCU film jumped ...

Is comic-book movie culture reaching a tipping point…into peak exhaustion? This summer, we’ve seen signs of that in the ho-hum box-office returns for “The Flash” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

Adam West as Bruce Wayne/Batman in the 1966 movie 'Batman,' and Christopher Reeve in a promotional still from 1978's 'Superman.' While the majority of the films on this list come from the Marvel ...