Superman: The Blog

It’s one thing for a TV series to use repeated shots and visual effects to work within its allotted budget. The first five Star Trek series, and even a few of the Star Trek movies, are easy examples where the same effects shots are used and reused and reused ad infinitum as part of their…

In November 2006 we were treated to the inclusion of nearly thirty minutes of added deleted scenes from Superman IV for the deluxe edition DVD release, all of which were taken from a workprint of the film. In most cases the footage contained temporary music and visual effects, while in other places the visual effects…

Four-letter words. “Wordy durds” as I heard it growing up. Unwholesome talk. “You mean the profanity. That’s just simply the way they talk around here. Nobody pays any attention to you unless you swear every other word…” – James T. Kirk, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Or in the word of Captain America… Before…

As we have reached the anniversary of the release of Superman III, one aspect of this underrated film that I find myself looking back on is the extended version of this film. And the one word that comes to mind is lagniappe. Some of you are probably wondering, what’s lagniappe? Let me explain. According to…

I recently had a conversation with my friend Jim Bowers about all of the deleted scenes that were featured in the extended version of Superman II, and it turns out that there is an incredible plethora of scenes shot for the film but for one reason or another were not included in the theatrical version…

After the critical and commercial failure of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace at the box office, it wasn’t long that Warner Bros. would gear the film up for its eventual release on VHS and laserdisc. By the fall of 1987, the window between a movie’s theatrical release and its debut on home video was…

So for a little while now we have known that a new biopic on the life and career of the legendary Marlon Brando has been in the works, with Billy Zane of Back to the Future and Titanic fame portraying Brando. But now we have proof that Zane is going to take it one step…

Recently I obtained my first region-free Japanese Blu-ray set, the 2023 blockbuster film Godzilla Minus One which was released in a variety of versions and included the equally acclaimed Godzilla Minus One: Minus Color variation, and it had me thinking about another movie that has a unique twist to it that continues to fascinate fans…

So in my quest to further build my Superman ‘78 collection, I came upon an interesting foreign language variant of the highly successful miniseries from 2021-22 written by Robert Venditti and illustrated by Wilfredo Torres. And this one was two years in the making for me. I first came upon this variation, entitled Superman 1978,…

In my previous two blogs on the Plaion Pictures Blu-ray release of Supergirl, one of the highlights of the release was the text commentary by writer Christian Heiss. It’s not the first time that I’d read some of his writing. When I came across the German language version of the Superman ‘78 graphic novel collection…