Tag origin story
We’ve all gotten used to cinematic superheroes, by now. Every year there is a new movie or two that debuts right around this time, with several to follow, as we get deeper into summer. From movie to movie, a lot… Continue Reading →
Back in my formative years, if you wanted to see the newest-released movies outside of the theater, you had to travel down to the local video shop.
Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462, a 16-episode short film, attempts to generate interest in the show’s second season, but crashes way before the actual flight. Filled with Zombie outbreak tropes and with little time for character development, it is… Continue Reading →
Episode Two of the Telltale Games series featuring many folks’ favorite character from The Walking Dead has hit game systems with the wallop of a more harrowing installment than the first. After the slower buildup of Episode One, I was… Continue Reading →
Wonder Woman finally appears in live action on the big screen in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The Amazonian warrior debuted in comic books more than 70 years ago. She is an icon of feminine strength and independence. She’s… Continue Reading →
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice really needed to be a masterpiece. It needed to be so impossibly perfect that the most cynical among us would eat their hats, stuffed with crow meat. Heaven and earth needed to move, not… Continue Reading →
When you include the word, “fantastic,” in your film’s title, you better live up to the promise. Fox’s 2015 Fantastic Four movie is lacking in the “fantastic” element in this boring, half-baked reboot of the Cosmic Quartet that strays from… Continue Reading →
Per Matt A lot of people are already throwing around the words “game changer” in reference to the upcoming FOX movie that breaks the fourth wall, but I wholeheartedly disagree. After attending a media screening for Deadpool last week, I… Continue Reading →
The ’80s and ’90s were possibly the greatest eras for kids growing up, in terms of televised cartoons. My personal favorite was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The show’s opening guitar riff, backed by synth chords, was just about the only… Continue Reading →
Catching Cooties: An Infectious Film
Per Matt Circle, circle, dot, dot, now you’ve got your Cooties shot. That imaginary vaccination won’t prevent a food-borne virus from reaching pandemic levels, turning every third- and fourth-grade student in Ft. Chicken, Illinois into undead terrors, but it’s a… Continue Reading →