Category: Ghost Rider

  • The world is coming to an end and only this ragtag team of Marvel supernatural characters can stop it. Johnny Blaze, Ghost Rider. Blade the Vampire Hunter. Damian Hellstrom the Hellstrom. Satana Hellstrom the scantily clad. Sadly, Spirits of Vengeance does not read like a tawdry seventies comic (and looks less like one). Instead, it’s…

  • All-New Ghost Rider 1 (May 2014)

    When DC relaunched Blue Beetle with a teen male Hispanic lead, wasn’t his last name Reyes? In a rare act of Marvel aping DC, the relaunched teen male Hispanic Ghost Rider has Reyes for a last name too. Maybe they’re related, like any property the Big Two are somehow trying to make relevant again has…

  • Ghost Rider (2007, Mark Steven Johnson), the extended cut

    Watching former–I don’t know, he wasn’t really an indie, so something like pre-hipster hipster–wunderkind Wes Bentley in material like this movie (where he finally finds his appropriate level, skill-wise) is kind of amusing. Is it amusing enough to get through the whole movie, especially since Bentley doesn’t show up until twenty-five minutes into it (remember,…