Dec. 30, 2021 — The COVID logjam is finally breaking in movies, so 2022 is going to be a big year at the local multiplex. Here’s a look at some of the big movies I’m excited about, and a few I’m not, in al
Prisoner: Cell Block H, if you’re unfamiliar with it, was an Australian soap opera set in a women’s prison and ran for 692 episodes between 1979 and 1986. I never watched it myself, not really, but my mom did. She’s deaf, and the show aired before cl
Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld, left) and Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) are both called Hawkeye on the Disney+ TV show of the same name. (Courtesy Marvel.com)
Super Smash Brother Ultimate is the latest iteration of a game that I first discussed here. To sum up, it's a video game which takes characters from a wide range of other video games and brings them together to fight each other on stages deigned to e
Didn't have much going on yesterday, so I watched a couple of the original Planet of the Apes movies, and skimmed the others. This prompted me to see if I could work out a coherent timeline for the events of these films. If I make any egregious erro
When I was a lad, "common knowledge" held that all true [American] comics fans owned a complete run of the Justice Society of America as featured in All Star Comics #3-57. I didn't achieve that goal myself until 2005 with the publication of All Star
One of my “gripes” about Doctor Who is that continuity is constantly being re-set so that the existence of aliens comes as a shock to people, even though the Earth has been invaded by aliens numberless times throughout human history, especially durin
Possibly some Silver Age fans here will find this blog essay of interest,
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On occasion I’ve found fault with the kind of criticism that concentrates only on the “firsts” or the “big events” in comic book history (or in any are
ELIZABETH GILLIES, STEPHANIE BEATRIZ LEAD STELLAR CAST IN A NEW DC ANIMATED MOVIE WITH AN ANIME TWIST; AVAILABLE ON 4K ULTRA HD™ BLU-RAY COMBO PACK, BLU-RAY™ AND DIGITAL ON FEB. 8, 2022
Got to see this last night, a few preliminary thoughts and reactions:
1)"Nobody likes the tangerines." Is that a traditional Christmas gift in the UK? Like a stocking-stuffer, or something? Mine usuallly comes with various toiletries in it. Honestly
This post contains SPOILERS. Seriously, this film contains enough surprises for those who haven't followed any of the media for an entire year's worth of films. EXPECT SPOILERS! DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS!
