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X-Men ’97 is nostalgia done properly

 We live in an unusual era. It’s a time when everything from the past remains present. Movies, TV shows, and toys from yesteryear are still around. They are not exactly the same, they’ve been reworked and repackaged, but they still exist in the world. And of course, for fans this is generally a great thing.…

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Newsletter #10: Drawing back the curtain once more

 Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the It’s A Stampede! newsletter. It’s been a few weeks, hasn’t it? Yep, I’ve not published an edition of the Newsletter for about a month and this is largely because I am knee-deep in blockbuster season (more about that in the next Newsletter), which means I’ve been…

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Every Apocalypse episode of X-Men: The Animated Series

 In 1992, X-Men: The Animated Series made its debut. The cartoon series, based on the Marvel Comics characters of the same name, followed the story of a team of mutants who fight for equality in a world that hates and fears them. Upon making its debut, X-Men: The Animated Series was deemed a hit with audiences and quickly became…

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Why critics and audiences see movies so differently

 You may have noticed something a little confusing when it comes to new movies. Big films are coming out with significant fanfare, critics are fairly dismissive of them, making it appear as if they are awful, and yet the general public seem to enjoy what’s on offer. It happened recently with Masters of the Universe, which…

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