Chronicle (2012)
Feb 11, 2012Found Footage Psychic Powers Film
Essentially a Found Footage version of a teen underdog discovers psychic powers film like The Fury or Akira. Nothing original, just a novelty of approach conducted with conviction
Michael B. Jordan
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
Mar 9, 2014Animation/Comic-Book Superheroes/Alternate Timeline
Ar DC Universe animated film set in an alternate timeline where the histories of various familiar DC characters have turned out radically different. A film that works through a strong, intelligent story and the shock of seeing familiar characters turned on their heads
Fantastic Four (2015)
Aug 15, 2015Comic-Book Superheroes
Despite all the hate this received, I am maybe the only person out there that liked this. It is three-quarters of a good film that strips the Four of costumes and tells a character-driven story about people dealing with powers
Black Panther (2018)
May 12, 2018Marvel Comics Superhero
The most successful Marvel Comics adaptation of all-time up to that point. Enjoyable if I fall short of calling it the best Marvel film ever and its receiving a nomination for a Best Picture Academy Award
Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
May 26, 2018Book-Burning Dystopia/Ray Bradbury Adaptation
This had one simple job – adapt a book by one of the great SF writers. Instead, we go from a work set in a book-burning future to The Firemen on reality tv shows competing for Likes on social media and how fake news led to this world
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Feb 11, 2023Marvel Comics Superhero
The MCU’s sequel to Black Panther. This offers the peculiarity of a work in which the superhero of the title never actually appears and is instead set around his absence following the death of Chadwick Boseman
Sinners (2025)
Jun 7, 2025Vampire Film
Ryan Coogler of Black Panther fame makes a smart and intelligent vampire film set in the American South during the 1930s