Scum & Villainy: Star Wars Episode I
So. Sigh. The Star Wars Prequels. Its interesting to me to look back now, some years distant, on Episodes I-III. For someone like myself who grew up with the Original Trilogy but who has no memory of seeing those films released, it was an incredible thing to be able to experience
The Dark Knight Returns: Spoiler-Free Review!
I am almost speechless. For the past two and a half hours I had my brains pretty much blown out the back of my head by the The Dark Knight in IMAX. This is a SPECTACULAR film. It is dense. It is dazzling. And boy oh boy it is dark. It is SHOCKINGLY dark — […]
Golden Sequel
I always like my super-hero/fantasy flicks to have a touch of melancholy. (Probably why I enjoy Superman Returns so much, as I’ve written about previously on this site.) One of the things I really appreciated about the Lord of the Rings movies, and the original books, was that t
Movie Mediocrity
I had a rare two-days off from my summer job last week, and so I of course took the opportunity to go see a whole bunch of new movies currently playing in theatres. I had a lot of fun, but I must report that everything I saw was pretty solidly mediocre. The Happening — Its [&hel
Narnian Questions
First of all, sorry for no new cartoon today! Slight technical difficulties. I’ll be posting it tomorrow — a rare Friday post! But as Bill Cosby says (in the greatest stand-up performance ever committed to film, Bill Cosby Himself), that’s not what I came here to tal
“They only lack the light to show the way”
As an addendum to my list of my five favorite super-hero movies posted at the start of this week, here are three super-hero movies that I consider to be tremendously under-rated: Superman Returns — I just don’t understand the almost universal apathy or even dislike towards
With Great Power…
I love comic books. And that means that I grew up with a great love of super-hero stories. These days its true that many of my favorite comic books have little to do with super-heroes (looking through my “to-read” pile I see titles like David Lapham’s Young Liars, St
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
I just returned from a midnight showing. What follows are my spoiler-free thoughts. Boy. They did it to me again. I have never been more disappointed walking out of a movie theatre than I was after sitting through Star Wars: Episode I back in 1999. It truly never occurred to me that E
When Good Series Go Bad
I watched Alien Vs Predator: Requiem this weekend on DVD. Sigh. Has there ever been a franchise that started off as incredible, and then became so abysmal, as the Alien and Predator series? (A certain series about a family named Skywalker does come to mind, although I consider t
“One shall stand…one shall fall”
I don’t think I’m the only child of the eighties who was deeply affected by Transformers: The Movie. I’m not talking about the Michael Bay CGI effects-O-rama, but the animated spin-off of the Transformers TV show that hit the big screen in 1986. I actually never saw