https://nerdspan.com nerdy news for fangirls and fanboys Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:04:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.3 https://nerdspan.com/movie-review-man-of-steel-2013-3/ https://nerdspan.com/movie-review-man-of-steel-2013-3/#comments Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:00:35 +0000 https://nerdspan.com/?p=15690 Man of Steel tries to tell an interesting origin story, but gives us a mess instead. The film is inconsistent with its rules, spends too much time explaining everything, and takes too long to tell an origin story. ]]> https://nerdspan.com/movie-review-man-of-steel-2013-3/feed/ 2 https://nerdspan.com/movie-review-man-of-steel-2013-2/ https://nerdspan.com/movie-review-man-of-steel-2013-2/#comments Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:32:45 +0000 https://nerdspan.com/?p=15722 If the Dark Knight trilogy is Christopher Nolan’s gritty, street level, crime-drama version of the Batman epic, then Man Of Steel (which Nolan produced) is director Zack (Watchmen) Snyder’s crazy, science-fiction version of the Superman legend, in which the Man Of Tomorrow’s formative adventure is presented through the lens of a full-on alien invasion disaster […]]]> https://nerdspan.com/movie-review-man-of-steel-2013-2/feed/ 1 https://nerdspan.com/box-office-back-issues-superman-the-movie-1978/ https://nerdspan.com/box-office-back-issues-superman-the-movie-1978/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 14:00:55 +0000 https://nerdspan.com/?p=14059 There’s a tendency over the last decade or so for a segment of fandom to write off Superman: The Movie as a quaint, dated relic of the pre-Marvel Studios, pre-CGI era, a campy speedbump along the road to true superhero movie greatness. A lot of the antipathy towards it seems to be of the “Why […]]]> https://nerdspan.com/box-office-back-issues-superman-the-movie-1978/feed/ 2 https://nerdspan.com/superman-family-adventures-16/ https://nerdspan.com/superman-family-adventures-16/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:17:30 +0000 https://nerdspan.com/?p=3895 After many issues of foreshadowing, Braniac lands on Earth in Superman Family Adventures #9 and abducts Lex Luthor to be his collaborator in an attack on Superman. Braniac flies his spaceship to the Fortress of Solitude, and enlarges the bug robot that he had used to infiltrate the Super Family. A fight is joined, but […]]]> https://nerdspan.com/superman-family-adventures-16/feed/ 0