News Around the Net!
Raiders of the Lost Ark is being re-released to theaters!! IN IMAX!!! I am so there. Here’s a trailer! My mind is reeling with the possibilities of Days of Future Past, the newly-announced upcoming X-Men film. I agree with every suggestion on this list of 10 cameos that
“If There’s to Be Damnation, Let it Be of My Choosing” — The Dark Tower: The Little Sisters of Eluria
Between the publication of the fourth and fifth Dark Tower novels, Stephen King wrote a short story that was set in Roland’s younger days, after the Battle of Jericho Hill but before the events of the first Dark Tower novel, The Gunslinger. This short story is called “Th
A Glimpse at the Daredevil Film that Might Have Been
For a moment last week it looked like Joe Carnahan was going to direct a new Daredevil movie… and that it would have been a gritty, street-level crime film set in 1973. Now it seems that is not to be. But for a glimpse at the awesomeness that we might have had, take a look [
Josh Looks Back at John Byrne’s Great (Unfinished) West Coast Avengers Epic!
After reading for the first time the first few years’ worth of stories from the old West Coast Avengers comics (in the handsome new collected editions that Marvel has been publishing for the past few years — click here, here, here and here for my reviews), I decided to com
“Ka is a Wheel” — Returning to The Dark Tower
Over the course of the last two summers, I made my way through Stephen King’s magnus opus: the seven-book Dark Tower saga. It was magnificent, and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. But somehow I knew when I finished book seven that I wasn’t quite done with the Dark
Dueling Star Trek Fan Films!
I’ve written lots about my enjoyment of the Star Trek fan film series Phase II. At a rate of about one new episode a year, the Phase II gang have been releasing extraordinarily well-made new episodes of the original Star Trek. The idea is that they’re creating the fourth s
From the Mighty Marvel Archives: The West Coast Avengers!
Surprising myself most of all, I’ve been really enjoying Marvel’s recently-published hardcovers collecting the early issues of their Avengers spin-off, The West Cost Avengers. (I wrote about my thoughts on the collection of the original West Coast Avengers mini-series here
News Around the Net!
In response to this summer’s lousy Spider-Man reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man (click here for my review), comes this great article on 10 Remakes that Got it Right. There are some really intriguing films on this list that I have never seen, but have been immediately placed on my
Star Trek Department of Temporal Investigations: Forgotten History
I really loved Christopher L. Bennett’s first Department of Temporal Investigations novel (click here for my review) that fleshed out the Federation’s timeline-policing agency, first seen in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Trials and Tibbble-ations,”