Lisa Laman

6 days ago | comicbook.com | Lisa Laman

With Superman preparing to properly launch the DC Universe (after Creature Commandos on Max served as an animated prelude), the possibilities are truly limitless for what character from DC Comics lore could show up in this franchise. For years, it’s felt like live-action DC Comics movies and TV shows suffered from primarily focusing on characters associated with the Superman and Batman mythos.

6 days ago | looper.com | Lisa Laman

There are so many horror movies produced every year that it's hard to imagine any pitches for fresh entries in the genre getting rejected. Surely, Blumhouse, A24, Sony/Screen Gems, and executives from other mainstays of American horror cinema just greenlight every script that crosses their path in the hopes of producing the next "Longlegs" or "Get Out." Of course, that's obviously not true.

1 week ago | comicbook.com | Lisa Laman

When we think of “comic book movies”, we typically think of big colorful PG-13 adaptations of DC and Marvel Comics superheroes. Of course, the world of comic book movie adaptations is infinitely more complex than that. Comics can inhabit any genre and exist far beyond just those two American companies. Thus, comic book movies also entail Road to Perdition, Oldboy, Monkeybone, 300, and so many others.

1 week ago | pajiba.com | Lisa Laman

By Lisa Laman | Film | June 19, 2025 Over the June 13-15, 2025 weekend, Materialists grossed $12 million over opening weekend. That wasn’t just the third-biggest A24 opening weekend ever and bigger than the lifetime domestic haul of director Celine Song’s last movie, Past Lives. It was also a nice reminder that the rom-com can still work on the big screen. This genres barely existed theatrically in the 2020s, but some welcome high financial points have emerged when it does show up.

1 week ago | comicbook.com | Lisa Laman

Over 15 seasons, the CW program Supernatural did everything you could imagine. This show’s enduring run ensured that the writers could keep conjuring up the most fantastical plots for the Winchester Twins to encounter and explore. This included everything from a Scooby-Doo crossover to a Season 3 installment where the lead character, Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles), was killed, just so they could do a time loop episode.