I absolutely can’t stand teaser trailers (or ‘Sneak Peeks,’ or whatever the hell some marketing department chooses to call them). They’re like regular trailers, except they give you even less information, which virtually by definition makes them very, very frustrating. The latest teaser from Spider-Man: Homecoming is no different in that we see Spider-Man clinging […]
This morning a teaser trailer Zach Snyder’s Batman v Superman was released, and…meh. After all, it’s a teaser trailer, which is little more than a few carefully chosen shots from the upcoming movie seemingly designed to drum up interest. It seems that Warner Bros/ DC Entertainment are taking a somewhat novel approach (‘novel’ in the […]
Is it a little odd that seeing the trailer for Captain Underpants I really have an urge to read the books it’s based on? In any case, with voice acting by Kevin Hart, Nick Kroll and Ed Helms the cast is pretty spectacular though with Kroll as (apparently) the villain of the piece it comes off a […]
I understand that Marvel Television in its ‘street-level’ heroes tends to seek a more grounded, realistic esthetic than those typically employed by Marvel Studios. That probably has a lot to do with why of all the Defenders only one, Daredevil, has a costume (which is more in the vein of tactical armor than a costume, […]
Last time we learned that the world was caught in a time loop, to repeat New Year’s Day for all time, due to the sinsistent machinations of mad scientist Willard Hughes and his time machine. But we also learned that there was a method to his madness: Hughes was dying, though his time machine would enable […]
I have to admit, I’m a bit concerned. None of the three series Marvel has produced for Netflix thus far (two seasons of Daredevil, one of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage) have been without criticism, but typically it’s muted by the heaps of praise they receive. Regrettably that had not been the case with Marvel’s Iron […]
Over the weekend Comicbook.com posted some images from Marvel Television’s upcoming The Inhumans and while I’m glad that their teleporting dog Lockjaw will be making an appearance the costumes might be just a little bit subdued. By which I mean, here’s a picture of Black Bolt, the head of the Inhuman Royal Family. He’s a […]
Sorry about the delay in getting this out. I had actually written this post last week, but the WordPress mobile app ate it. Luckily I wrote a rough draft (on paper!), so I didn’t start from scratch. The time machine, created by Willard Hughes in Part 1, is activated and its insidious purpose is made […]
When I read yesterday that the kibosh had been put on Hellboy III by none other than Guillermo Del Toro himself, I have to admit that I was a bit put out. And what his account lacks in detail, it more than made up for in finality. As I said, I was a bit bothered, […]
I’m going to just come out and say it. Aquaman is lame. And sure, much effort has been invested by DC Comics to give the character just a bit of much needed edge in the past few years, though his corny past is never terribly far behind. If your preferences ran toward water-based superheroes, as […]
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