A book claims that the 1985 Chuck Norris action movie Invasion USA helped fuel the Romanian revolution of 1989 In 1985, Cannon Films brought us a Chuck Norris action movie called Invasion USA, which involved Norris’s character – former CIA agent Matt Hunter – trying to stop an invasion of the United States that’s being … Read more
Apple TV+ has ordered season 3 of the sci-fi drama series Invasion, which is set across multiple continents and tells of an alien invasion The premiere season of the Apple TV+ series Invasion (read our review HERE) started airing in October of 2021 and wrapped up its ten episode run in December of that year. The same week … Read more
Phillip Kaufman’s classic 1978 sci-fi horror Invasion of the Body Snatchers celebrates its 45th anniversary next month. It will receive a limited edition Blu-ray early in 2024 from Arrow Video to mark the occasion. The Blu-ray includes a plethora of extras, including a panel conversation with esteemed genre critic Kim Newman, Kill List director Ben … Read more
Whatever else you think about The Marvels, good, bad, or ugly, it has a problem: It actively makes the previous Marvel Cinematic Universe TV show, Secret Invasion, even worse. It undermines all of that show’s storylines. It openly contradicts a lot of its plot points and cliffhangers. And it makes it impossible to reconcile the Nick Fury … Read more
At this point, it seems fair to say that Secret Invasion was a bit of a disappointment. What was one of the most epic comic-book crossovers in history — with longtime Marvel heroes being revealed as secret Skrull sleeper agents, and an all-out, intergalactic war — turned into a relatively small-scale and underwhelming Disney+ series about Nick … Read more
Before Adam Wingard went on to direct divisive takes on Blair Witch and Death Note, he was busy carving his own niche in horror cinema. His segments in the first two V/H/S movies are highlights, and the giddy chaos of Dan Stevens in The Guest has become a cult favorite at this point. But for … Read more
Most Marvel Comics are well-suited to TV shows. After all, comics are serialized stories, and so are TV series. But in the case of Secret Invasion, Marvel made a big mistake taking this comic and making it a series and not a film. For one thing Secret Invasion was a massive crossover event in the comics. It … Read more
“New Life,” which had its world premiere last night at Fantasia, starts with an arresting set of images: a woman with blood on her face, making her way through a quiet neighborhood. Her name is Jessie (played by Hayley Erin), and she is in a desperate hurry from something. We then get a sense of who … Read more
Obviously the Marvel Cinematic Universe is not “dead” after Secret Invasion failed to live up to the audience‘s expectations. Even if the show wasn’t great, there are still lots more Marvel movies and shows already on the way. The MCU isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. But is it about to change in a big way? For more than … Read more
Marvel might have set this show up for disaster. Continue reading…