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X-Men: Days of Future Past is Just Okay
Which still makes it better than a lot of the franchise. [more]
Serenity, Leaves on the Wind #5: Love Keeps Them Flying
[This review contains minor spoilage. It’s a bit spoiler-y. (I feel obliged to put it in Whedonesque terms.)] Issue #5 of Serenity: Leaves on the Wind has a distinctly Whedon voice. I mean that in… [more]
On Season Two of Hannibal
A generally spoiler-free look at the second season of the delightfully depraved chronicles of everyone’s favorite cannibal… [more]
Twain and Tesla Versus Evil: A Review of The Five Fists of Science
A steampunk graphic novel starring the bromance between Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla as they create giant robots and battle Cthulu cults. [more]
Timecrimes is Good, but not Unexpected
This Spanish science-fiction thriller wasn’t quite what was advertised… [more]
Food and Social Media: A Review of Chef
Food and Twitter are inextricably intertwined these days – some food shows themselves air tweets live and tweets often make reviews the next day as an example of what the audience is thinking. Jon Favreau… [more]
Game Changer: A Review of Invincible #111
For months now, Robert Kirkman had been warning fans that issue #111 of his long-running creator owned title Invincible would usher in a new, darker direction for the book. He has said that Mark Grayson… [more]
Tales of the Hidden World: A Book Review
In this wide-ranging collection, the New York Times-bestselling urban fantasist opens doors into hidden places: strange realms bordering our own mundane existence and prowled by creatures of fancy and nightmare. Here are the strange, frequently… [more]
The Fifth Beatle: The Untold Story of Brian Epstein
The Fifth Beatle is a monumental comic that combines bold styles, uses every comics storytelling trick in the proverbial book and a fast-paced style to recount ten years of history, from about 1957-1967. Those were… [more]
Andrew Dominik’s Filmography Part One: Chopper
I start my journey through the filmography of Andrew Dominik with the intense and fascinating Chopper. [more]
Escape from the Planet of the Apes: Good Despite the Odds?
The third Planet of the Apes movie goes from funny talking apes to baby-murder in an insanely short period of time. So if that’s your thing this movie has that… [more]
Saturday Morning Rewind: A Review of Amazing X-Men #7
If you are like me and are of a certain age, then you have very fond memories of the Saturday morning cartoon Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. Running from 1981 to 1983, it featured Spider-Man… [more]
X-Men: Days of Future Past is a Lot of Fun
X-Men: Days of Future Past, released today, is one of the funner super-hero movies ever made. Caution: minor spoilers ahead. The movie’s been compared by some to The Avengers. Obviously, the two films are very different:… [more]
Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 23
For a good long while Arrow’s second season finale looked like it was going to be just about perfect. After last week’s installment that both set that pace and upped the stakes for this final… [more]
Review of Wallace Wood’s Cannon
It’s tough to unravel the two big mysteries at the heart of the creation of Cannon, but the strongest clue to solve one of them arrives shortly into the run. Is this wild, macho story… [more]
Going Old School: A Review of Nightcrawler #1-2
According to Urban Dictionary.com, “old school” is defined as: “Anything that is from an earlier era and looked upon with high regard or respect. Can be used to refer to music, clothing, language, or anything… [more]
Beneath the Planet of the Apes is Completely Nuts
Beneath the Beneath the Planet of the Apes is essentially an insane metal album turned into a movie, and that’s awesome. [more]
Kaiju-Sized Review of Godzilla
I was very excited for Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla. This had less to do with the fact that it was a Godzilla film (though I won’t lie and tell you that wasn’t a factor) and more… [more]
The Genius of Arrested Development, Season 4
Arrested Development is an acquired taste. Over three seasons, the show, featuring an ensemble cast focusing on an extremely dysfunctional family, struggled through incarceration, treason charges, brother-sister love, magic tricks gone awry, and plenty of… [more]
S.O.B. Indeed: A Review of the Animated Son of Batman Movie
SPOILERS BELOW: Last week, I had some Papa Gino’s pizza. It was a large, with extra cheese. (This is going to become relevant in a second, I promise.) I wasn’t too excited about it, honestly.… [more]
Raised by Raptors #1: Dynamite but Dino-Lite
“Raised by Raptors” #1, written by Oliver Sykes, the lead singer of metal band Bring Me the Horizon, is a strange pairing between dinosaurs and the Aztecs. Somewhat verbose and light on the action (and dinosaurs), I felt this dinodystopia left a lot to be desired. [more]
Planet of the Apes Review
And lo the great Planet of the Apes viewing doth commence! I’m sure most of you know there’s a new Planet of the Apes movie coming out next month – Dawn of the Planet of… [more]
Review of Arrow Season 2, Episode 22
“Streets of Fire” is the kind of breathless climax that TV is uniquely capable of. It’s nearly forty-five minutes of pure, unbridled forward momentum. Recklessly charging forward while paying off nearly an entire season’s worth… [more]
Blue is the Warmest Color: A Great Graphic Novel Love Story
Love, to this amateur, seems to have this peculiar quality of specificity and generality, at least in our memory. We remember sentiment, feeling and then some very particular moments or images. It’s like remembering a… [more]
The Grand Budapest Hotel after Two Viewings
“You can tell they had a low budget; all the backgrounds were painted.” That quote comes courtesy of one of the shining beacons of taste I went with to see The Grand Budapest Hotel. It… [more]