Stuffy academics wearing tweed jackets with reinforced elbows (seriously? are your elbows so worn out they need leather patches?) may scoff at superhero movies, but let's be clear: the Marvel Cinem...

Even The Bard Was Big On FranchisesDirector Kenneth Branagh made his name with the film version Big Willy Shakespeare's Henry V, which is the story of a young king trying to prove himself against l...

Its formal name is Mjolnir…and those comic book guys didn't even have to make that odd-sounding name up. The hammer of Thor was always a part of the figure, going back thousands of years to when...

The Bifrost Bridge is straight out of mythology: a rainbow that the Norse Gods use to conveniently get back and forth to the mortal world. Here's it's pretty much the same thing: an easy way to ge...