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10 Essential Action Movies of 1996

March 4, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s stunts aplenty with spinning kicks and punches, as we travel back to 1996 with these essential action movies… The action movie landscape of 1996 was pretty interesting. It saw a noticeable shift in the genre, stepping noticeably away from the previous decade and early 90s reliance on muscle-bound heroes. The beefy big boys like […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Black Mask, Broken Arrow, Daylight, Eraser, Executive Decision, First Strike, Glimmar Man, Maximum Risk, Mission: Impossible, Riot, Sabotage, Silent Trigger, Sworn To Justice, the long kiss goodnight, The Quest, The Rock, The Sweeper, White Tiger

Who Is Black Mask? Getting to know DC’s Birds of Prey villain

February 2, 2020 by EJ Moreno

Join EJ Moreno as he dives into the history of Black Mask… One of my most memorable villains in Batman’s rogue’s gallery, Black Mask, is a force in the world of DC Comics. With a tragic backstory and sinister motivations, let’s look at what makes the killer crime boss tick. The video goes perfectly for […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Comic Books, EJ Moreno, Flickering Myth TV, Movies, Television, Video Games Tagged With: Birds of Prey, Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn), Black Mask, DC, DC Extended Universe, Ewan McGregor

Black Mask announces new series Calexit

February 20, 2017 by Gary Collinson

Black Mask Studios has marked Presidents’ Day with the announcement that Young Terrorists creators Matteo Pizzolo and Amancay Nahuelpan are set to launch the new series Calexit, descriped as “a timely title about resisting oppression, punching Nazis, protecting each other, kicking ass, and demanding liberty for all.” What if a fascist, autocratic President took over the […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Black Mask, Calexit

Universal bringing Grant Morrison’s Sinatoro to the small screen

July 28, 2016 by Gary Collinson

Universal Television has announced that it is teaming up with Depth of Field and Black Mask Studios to bring Grant Morrison and Vanesa R. Del Rey’s forthcoming Black Mask comic series Sinatoro to the small screen, from a pilot script by Morrison and American Odyssey and Heroes’ Adam Armus & Kay Foster. SINATORO tells of […]

Filed Under: Comic Books, Gary Collinson, News, Television Tagged With: Black Mask, Grant Morrison, Sinatoro, Vanesa R. Del Rey

Comic Book Review – Transference #1

July 7, 2015 by Zeb Larson

Zeb Larson reviews Transference #1… Colton Moss and his elite team of special agents run counter-terrorism operations utilizing a secret form of time travel technology called “transference,” which enables them to send their consciousnesses back in time – but, when Colton’s past is altered to reshape his life in the present, he discovers this technology […]

Filed Under: Comic Books, Reviews, Zeb Larson Tagged With: Black Mask, Transference

Tim Kring’s Imperative Entertainment adapting Black Mask Studios’ Mayday

May 5, 2015 by Gary Collinson

Imperative Entertainment – which is run by Tim Kring, creator of Heroes – has teamed up with Black Mask Studios to adapt the comic book series Mayday as a scripted television series. MAYDAY lives in the underbelly of the Hollywood scene, where a washed-up, drug-addicted screenwriter and a transgender bartender stumble onto a Satanic cult’s […]

Filed Under: Comic Books, Gary Collinson, News, Television Tagged With: Black Mask, Mayday, Tim Kring

Comic Book Review – The Disciples #1

June 11, 2015 by Anghus Houvouras

Anghus Houvouras reviews The Disciples #1… Dagmar, Rick, and Jules, intrepid private eyes/bounty hunters, have been hired by a high ranking Senator to retrieve his teenage daughter who’s run off to join a mysterious religious cult. This is no ordinary cult though. In the near future of “The Disciples,” the ultra-wealthy have become true masters […]

Filed Under: Anghus Houvouras, Comic Books, Reviews Tagged With: Black Mask, The Disciples

Wes Craven and Steve Niles teaming up for The Disciples TV series

March 26, 2015 by Gary Collinson

Horror maestros Wes Craven (Scream) and Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) are joining forces for a TV adaptation of Black Mask’s upcoming comic book series The Disciples, which is being produced by Universal Cable Productions. Created by Niles and Christopher Mitten (Umbral), The Disciples has been described as “True Detective in space” and is […]

Filed Under: Comic Books, Gary Collinson, News, Television Tagged With: Black Mask, steve niles, The Disciples, Wes Craven

Preview of Black Mask’s psychedelic horror Gravetrancers #1

December 8, 2017 by Gary Collinson

Black Mask launches its new psychedelic horror tale Gravetrancers #1 this coming Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the issue here… On a journey to track down the grave of their estranged father, Maribel and Anthony find their way to the Malort Cemetery, a strange, seemingly abandoned field of mostly […]

Filed Under: Comic Book Previews, Comic Books, Gary Collinson Tagged With: Black Mask, Gravetrancers

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