This certainly has potential.
Though unless I start seeing rave reviews saying it’s as good as good as either of those two or The Endless, I’ll wait until it comes out on streaming.

I was thinking Midsommar meets Glass Onion. But regardless, it does seem like it has potential.

The beauty of Alien is that you really don’t really have to bother with heavu duty worldbuilding. All you need is an isolated environment, a bunch of hapless meatbags, and one or more monsters. And this allows you to tell a wide variety of stories, whether it’s just a haunted house narrative, a war story, or a cosmic…

If you’re at all inclined to sail the high seas, you might want to check out “Blade Runner 2049: Aerodynamik”. It’s a fanedit that’s sole purpose was to tighten up the editing/pacing issues that made the movie drag, without affecting the plot at all. By making minor editing tweaks throughout, the editor was able to…

As I’ve said before, Neil Gaiman’s “George R.R. Martin is not your bitch” is absolutely a given. But as a reader, I am not George R.R. Martin’s bitch either, and just because I enjoyed the first three books in ASoIaF over twenty years ago it doesn’t mean I’m obligated to read any of the newer books, any more than…

Therapy is a place where you’re supposed to be safe enough to reveal your honest feelings and impressions and thoughts not have them dragged out for the world to dissect and gossip over.

Watchmen is a property that makes money, much to Alan Moore’s disgust, so we will see that property exploited with other works beyond what Moore wrote. Moore himself is -to say the least- a prickly guy and I’m not really in his corner for much of what he’s said and done following leaving DC (I feel he is a rather huge…

I think its good that we are seeing comic book people doing stuff that’s theirs and often providing a complete beginning-middle-end story.

Thing is about Manga books, unlike the US superhero market, is that most of the series are finite and started, and ended, with a certain/same creative cast start to end.

This is indeed true, especially with markets other than the United States though I’m not sure how the numbers are within this country. They well could be higher at this point as I’m not as aware of the sales figures across the various comic book series!

I feel sad whenever I think about comic books in the U.S. in particular because it feels like audiences have gotten stuck on the superhero genre to (almost) the exclusion of most everything else... at least when it comes to sales.

One wonders if maybe this relationship played a role in Donner and Mankiewicz ultimately being fired... if maybe Lester wasn’t too pleased with things Donner was doing and perhaps was closer to the Salkinds and stating his displeasure... and they listened.

You had comics that wanted to have a “rough” edge to them and present questionable “heroes” doing questionable things and like too much stuff out there, it became boring pretty quickly.

This was indeed the main problem with Lester. He didn’t seem to “get” what Donner and company did with Superman and decided to go his way.

It was the golden era of psychotic heroes and one of the first post Dark Knight stories featuring Superman and Batman, I recall (though I couldn’t say which issue of what series it was in, only that I believe Kieth Giffen was the writer and possibly also the artist) had the two characters being total enemies... at…

Frankly, I’m still a little pissed at the way the character of the Peacemaker has veered so wildly from the way he was originally presented way back in the Stone Age when he first appeared in the Charlton books. Frankly, I preferred that version of the character even if he might be more of a “boring” pseudo silver age…

Wow. If the guy who did “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist” never hit it out of the park you may have an unrealistically oversized Ballpark!

The French Connection arguably changed the visual language of cop movies forever, and while parts of it can seem underwhelming today, it was totally unlike anything that came before it, reinterpreting Hollywood cop dramas through the prism of Jean-Pierre Melville’s crime movies. You don’t get Heat, for example,…

Interestingly enough, I read an article (and I can’t find it now) that states Fiege wants people to write for the Marvel movies that aren’t fans of/readers of Marvel books.

I’ve said this before, but I sense a deep cultural divide between Marvel and DC’s movie divisions. The people who make the Marvel movies, or at least the first wave or so of Marvel movies, like Feige, Whedon, and Gunn, were obviously Marvel fans when they were kids and grew up reading the comics. (Even Kenneth Branagh…