Tag: Don Payne

  • Thor: The Dark World (2013)

  • Thor (2011)

    I feel the same way about Thor I imagine most people feel about Superman. After all, Thor’s the Norse god of thunder and, as such, he’s ridiculously over-powered and quite a bit alien depending on the personal taste of who’s writing him at the time. Over a fifty year history as convoluted as any other […]

  • Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

    It’s amazing how unmemorable a film like this can be. Twenty-four hours and it vanishes from your mind like a bad dream. Oh, to wake in a world where Marvel Studios did not chose to produce Fantastic Four films in conjunction with 20th Century Fox. At once flagrantly pandering and incoherently pretentious, Rise of the […]