Mina Harker, nee Murray, is a surprisingly strong and interesting character in DRACULA, even if she's ultimately a more conventional Victorian than Alan Moore's version of her, so I understand the disappointment in seeing her marginalized in this alternate universe. OTOH, the very existence of LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY…

Marv Wolfman and the great Neal Adams did this much better in the 70s, in a real comic that didn't turn Vlad into a superhero. You can read the entire story here.

And I don't think it's an adequate defense to say the critic had a dispassionate reaction to the subject matter. It's possible to write with style and conviction about something one feels "meh" about.

This is the best evocation of Victorian London I've seen in a TV show.

All movie werewolves used to be wolfmen; Henry Hull's THE WEREWOLF OF LONDON, Bela's pal in RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE, Michael Landon's teenaged werewolf, Oliver Reed in CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF, and Paul Naschy's Waldemar, amongst others. But yeah, I liked Ethan being so old school.

I don't mean to be the kind of creep who insults a critic for having a differing opinion, but this strikes me as an oddly perfunctory and bloodless review, one that's symptomatic of this site's decline since the Great Divorce. Some weeks ago, I probably gave Sonia too much shit for what struck me as misinformed or…

I'd rather see Charles Dance star in a faithful adaptation of Stoker's novel. Whatever its virtues, Coppola's isn't that. Christopher Lee is now too infirm, so Dance is the closest thing to a perfect Dracula we're likely to have.

I dated a woman who grew up in the Baba Meher cult in India. She came out of it loving India but hating expat hippie cultists. She showed me some amazing Hindu comics she'd collected as a kid.

Playboy has been steadily declining since the 70s, although the quality of the centerfolds (and the photography thereof) noticeably decreased before that of the fiction and non-fiction did. And I speak as somebody who actually did read the magazine for its articles, and more often, short stories and serialized novels.

I do much the same. I feel a bit more hesitant about cocksucker, which as we all know from Deadwood sounds so great as an epithet. I sometimes use it, but I wouldn't want you to think I was disparaging anyone of either gender for actually fellating anyone else.

Yeah, there it's not uncommon to call your mates down at the pub a bunch of cunts. Twat seems to have a similar usage here, although I gather it's a more regional thing. I went to college with a girl from Maryland who had no idea it was ever a synonym for pussy or cooter, just something you called an asshat of…

Hell, I would too.

Robert E. Howard attributed the "virility" of Dumas' prose to this. He thought most French writers were sissies.

Writing and direction are crucial. Charlton Heston isn't someone you think of as being a better actor than Vincent Price, Tim Curry, or Waltz, but his nuanced world-weary Cardinal stands head and shoulders above theirs. Yes, Heston gives the performance of his career — watch the gamut of emotions that plays across…

I love the way Daisy, a passing aerialist, rolls up in her circus wagon at the end to scale the building and battle Diana Monti. It's so delightfully arbitrary. Can't find that scene online, but here's Bird Judex at the ball.

Yep. I was eating a late lunch at a local Irish pub last week and my cute waitress complimented me on my Fin Fang Foom t-shirt. She mentioned that her older sister is a huge She-Hulk fan and pointed out another waitress who despite also being quite cute, cosplays not as scantily clad super heroines but as Thanos and…

Critics have made fun of Hollywood's tendency to cast Brits as Romans, but it would make a certain amount of cultural sense in China.

The second one has that terrific little mute villain and the excellent playground fight.

Todd is a much better writer than Erik, although not having read the books I avoid his Expert pieces, but this is starting to feel like cynical clickbait. Especially when these "thesis" is as fundamentally uninteresting as the one here. And I say that as someone who loves the show.

As I have nothing to do about this typically lazy and tardy review, has anyone else encountered claims that the beetle-crushing Orson Lannister was a swipe at Orson Scott Card?