Here I am, arriving several years late to the party again, but I blame Dr. Who this time. I have given the Doctor several tries, but he keeps turning me off, and I hold him accountable for steering me clear of most things spawned in Britain — I just could never figure out what I was missing, and why I couldn’t latch […]
Is this the end for Toy Hunter?
I remember getting a call one Saturday afternoon from this guy who wanted to tell me about his new TV show that was in production, and he wanted to get my opinion on the rough cut of the pilot episode. Sure, why not. At this point, I had no idea who Jordan Hembrough was, but after […]
I shall speak softly and carry a big stick
The other day, I bought a stick on eBay. A really big stick. Actually, it’s 44″ long and made out of latex and a metal tube. This stick was “supposedly” used in the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes movie. It came from a prop warehouse and arrived with a beautiful, signed color photocopy of a […]
Top 10 Marvel Movies
The other day, I saw an article on this topic over on Buzzfeed and immediately wanted to write my own list. I decided to expand my list to the entire Marvel universe of movies and not limit it to just the Avengers. I thought I might even expand the list even further to include ALL superhero movies, but […]
Don’t touch that dial!
Do people still flip through channels anymore? I know I do, but the way technology is always on-demand now, and some people bypass broadcast TV altogether, maybe the serendipitous nature of channel surfing has faded away. This got me thinking about the way some movies always seem to grab my attention, whether it’s a lazy […]
The Age of Apocalypse
I had a pretty depressing weekend. The world as we know it ended–three times. By a strange set of circumstances, I was able to see three new movies and they were all pretty big downers in their own way. It was the Age of Apocalypse. First up was X-Men: Days of Future Past, which showed the end […]