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Christopher Dennis, AKA Hollywood Boulevard Superman, will be laid to rest with a funeral service at the Old North Church on Saturday, December 7th at 12pm, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, 6300 Forest Lawn Drive. A benefactor, who wishes to remain anonymous, came forward with a generous gift to fulfill Dennis’s final wishes, …

Things are not looking positive for DC Comics right now, as they are hard at work on “The Batman” and trying to cast a leading man for that, but yet another problem has come up for them with “Superman”. Actor Henry Cavill has recently revealed his decision to leave the …

It was back in 1933 when two kids from Cleveland, Ohio named Jerome Siegel and Joseph Shuster developed a very small self-published fanzine title “Science Fiction”. In issue #3 of their fanzine, they created a story about a super-powered telepath who was going to attempt to take over the world. …

A recent toy release for 'Justice League'  shows the black suited Superman made most famous from 'The Death of Superman' storyline that was initiated in 'BvS'.

No feature is perfect, even if millions of dollars have been poured into it's creation process. Some have come quite close, although most would agree that even the most classical movie has it's flaws. But every so often, a picture comes along that looks great when viewing it's theatrical trailer, encouraging hoards of people to go and see it. The hype machine bangs on about how great it is and everything starts well, only for one terrible scene to ruin, or nearly ruin a good flick.

Superman has been putting in a fair number of appearances in the past few years all beginning with the release of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel and it's critically panned follow up, Batman vs Superman. In the past couple of weeks, CBS have been showing the second season of Supergirl which allowed the debut of it's own version of the last son of Krypton which has earned a surprising number of positive opinions.

Movie making is an art, that much most devoted film goers will appreciate. But sometimes that passion can override the harsh reality that movies are developed for financial gain. Sometimes this can be a good thing if fans of a particular franchise want to see their favourite characters on screen time and time again, even if each passing sequel gets worse than it's predecessor.