The heart of the story remains the same, but the details and style have been retold and reimagined over and over again. There’s a lot of great and not so great material to choose from. Here, I list my top 5 favorite Superman origin stories… The origin story of Superman has become one the most [...]

As a companion piece to our look at the live-action Superman short films and TV shows, we celebrate the work of the first live-action Superman, Kirk Alyn. The sequel to Superman, Atom Man Vs Superman (1950), was a fifteen part serial about the Man of Steel and his nemesis, Luthor. Remarkably, Kirk Alyn still didn’t [...]

Nuclear Man. Those words send shivers down the spine of any movie fan. Not since the appearance of Mr T in Rocky III has a muscled villain been so misjudged. Voiced by Gene Hackman and played by the square-jawed Mark Pillow from none other than my hometown of Leeds, Nuclear Man is quite possibly the [...]

It’s a given that people visiting this site will have collected their fair share of movie memories during their childhood. For me, Superman III provides many standout moments that will live long in the memory. I first saw it on television when I was about ten, I think, and it struck me as one of [...]

What a difference a couple of weeks make. As previously reported, Action Comics #900 was going to feature Superman giving up his American citizenship to become a citizen of the world or something like that. Two weeks later, after outrage across the fruited plains, as Rush Limbaugh might say, it appears that Superman has reevaluated [...]

Terence Stamp has had what can best be described as an eclectic career. He’s played master to Jennifer Garner’s Elektra. He’s played a drag queen in The Adventures Of Prescilla, Queen Of The Desert. He’s also starred in a cameo of the Devil himself in The Company Of Wolves. Fair to say, though, that most [...]

Just as one controversy about birthright citizenship was being resolved last month with the release of President Obama’s long-form birth certificate, another prominent American was allegedly “renouncing” his citizenship after decades of narrow identification with American exceptionalism. In Action Comics No. 900, Superman — the adopted son of Jonathan and Martha Kent of Smallville, Kan. [...]

Everyone needs a hero to save them now. Someone to save them just in the nick of time. As the rock band Skillet said “A hero is not afraid to give his life, a hero is going to save me just in time.” He is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, [...]

There is a scene in the 2006 movie “Superman Returns” that captures the fabled Man of Steel in an extraordinary moment. Floating high above the Earth, gazing down upon America, he listens with his super-hearing for cries of help as a cacophony of people, in all the world’s languages, live their lives. The message is [...]

It would be faintly pointless of me to argue a case against Superman. The movie marks a high point of a year in which Travolta and Newton-John squeezed themselves into leather pants, children wept as a bunch of animated rabbits were attacked by foxes to the heartfelt tones of Art Garfunkel’s Bright Eyes, and the [...]