The Hulk has been one of those characters where it's been impossible for him to settle down for very long. Every writer has a wild idea with him that they'd like to try out, and that means over the past several years he's had wildly different status quos. After Greg Pak's legendary run with Planet … Continue reading (Comic Review) The Totally Awesome Hulk #1-4
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(Movie Reviews) A Hunchback, a Demigod and an Only Child Walk Into a Bar…
Ryan and I are coming up on the back half of the Disney Renaissance, which reminds me a lot of the risks the animation studio took during the "Dark Ages" of the 70s and early 80s. The storytellers in place at the time were concerned with telling different kinds of stories that were a little … Continue reading (Movie Reviews) A Hunchback, a Demigod and an Only Child Walk Into a Bar…
(Review) Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1-6
When Marvel resumed their regular universe in the wake of Secret Wars last November, they released a really great line-up of diverse comics under the "All-New, All-Different Marvel" banner. I wrote a little about the titles I was most interested in here, and it's taken me a little time to get to most of the … Continue reading (Review) Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1-6
(Reviews) The Circle of Life, The Colors of the Wind, The Virtue of Playing Nice
Ryan and I are holding a weekly film festival where we watch the entire Disney animated canon in chronological order, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs all the way to Zootopia. Currently, we're up to the latter half of the studio's first Renaissance. Here are my reviews of the latest batch of movies! The … Continue reading (Reviews) The Circle of Life, The Colors of the Wind, The Virtue of Playing Nice
(Movie Review) Mice in Australia, A Bookworm and Her Monster, and a Djinn with ADD
The Rescuers Down Under (1990) Remember that hot second in the 90s when Australia was the coolest thing ever? It was a strange moment in pop culture -- all of a sudden, Paul Hogan was awesome again, and boomerangs were a fad, and Yahoo Serious was unleashed on the world. I'm still not sure why … Continue reading (Movie Review) Mice in Australia, A Bookworm and Her Monster, and a Djinn with ADD
(Review) A Leprechaun, a Mermaid, and a Greaser
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) Darby O'Gill is a walking cliche, that "drunken" old Irishman you find in every pub telling tall tales about his escapades with leprechauns and other Fair Folk. What's different is Darby doesn't drink and his stories are all true; so when he is finally sacked by Lord Fitzpatrick, … Continue reading (Review) A Leprechaun, a Mermaid, and a Greaser
(Movie Review) Judgement at Nuremberg
Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) Starring Spencer Tracy, Maximillian Schell, Burt Lancaster and Marlene Dietrich Directed by Stanley Kramer Written by Abby Mann A few years after the end of World War II, a battered Europe is beyond ready to move on. Germany, now that the atrocities of the concentration camps are out in the open, … Continue reading (Movie Review) Judgement at Nuremberg
(Movies) My Last 3: Get Hard, The Martian, Quick Change
Get Hard (2015) Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart had to manage a storm of controversy around the release of this film; a lot of people thought it was pretty blatantly racist at worst, and tone-deaf at best. Their response wasn't the best -- basically, they were telling racist jokes to make fun of the people … Continue reading (Movies) My Last 3: Get Hard, The Martian, Quick Change
(Movies) My Last 3: The Pyramid, The Book Thief, The Sacrament
The Pyramid (2014) This is a minor found-footage horror movie that I had been interested in mainly because I thought (mistakenly) that it was directed by Alexandre Aja. He's a horror director I've really come to like after watching High Tension, the remake of The Hills Have Eyes, and Horns. It turns out he only … Continue reading (Movies) My Last 3: The Pyramid, The Book Thief, The Sacrament
The X-Men Are Dead, Long Live The X-Men (Comics)
The end of the Marvel Universe came and went before Uncanny X-Men #600 hit the stands, and it's anyone's guess why the powers that be decided to wait as long as they did. Brian Michael Bendis, one of Marvel's big gun writers, had wrapped up the final issue of his years-long X-Men run earlier in … Continue reading The X-Men Are Dead, Long Live The X-Men (Comics)
From the Desk of Jakebe T. Rabbit 