Twenty-five years ago, New Line Cinema decided to make a movie adaptation of the Marvel Comics character “Blade” aka Eric Cross aka Frank Blade. Unlike the present-day MCU, Blade was darker, and bloodier, and spawned an era of five years when vampire hunting was cool. Let’s go back to the …
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Blade 2 was more than a sequel. The opening scene to the first Blade film is one of the greatest scenes in horror history, a very bold statement that I will defend until the end. Watching it was one of the few moments in my adult life where I found …
Read More »Blade II (2002) Retro Movie Review
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 15 years since Blade II hit the heaters in March of 2002. The highly anticipated sequel to the first Blade took a different approach to the first movie. Rather than Blade (Wesley Snipes: White Men Can’t Jump 1992) and Whistler (Kris Kristofferson: A Star …
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