Join Brian as he discusses science fiction, comic book, and horror films.
Edited 10/29/11 While it’s great to see George R.R. Martin, and his superlative writing, finally getting some attention with HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” though when I thought about which of his books that I would like to see as a movie, that particular series wasn’t my first choice. That would have been “Wild Cards” (and […]
Nothing in the way of spoilers, so read with confidence I have been watching the second season of “The Walking Dead,” and beside certain odd beats (Why was the smell of the dead on the highway a non-issue, while a rotting corpse in a tent makes everyone gag? These are some of the same people […]
If anyone doesn’t remember my Seattle’s Real-Life Superheroes post from earlier this month, it revolved around self-styled superheroes, like Phoenix Jones and Red Dragon, doing what they could to keep their city safe. Once I write a piece, I tend to move on to the next thing of interest. That is, till I happened to […]
According to Collider, some say that Simon Baker, of “The Mentalist” would make a good Doctor Strange. While I am sure that he could handle the role–after all, he’s a decent actor–there’s no way that he is a good fit for the character. Mainly because he looks nothing like him. In the past, I have […]
Frank Castle, when his family is gunned down by mobsters, declares an all-out war on crime as The Punisher. As a comic character, his popularity at times has approached that of DC Comics’ Batman, though he never successfully made the leap to feature films. First Dolph Lundgren tackled the character, and while physically his portrayal […]
More evidence of a circumstantial nature that Marvel (buttressed by the fairly deep pockets of The Walt Disney Co.) is preparing a feature film based on Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts. On May 19 I wrote that various sources believed that Tom Welling was being courted for the role by Marvel, despite being […]
Here’s the latest trailer for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s “The Adventures of Tintin.” All the spectacle looks really interesting–especially the parts were the two ships are dueling. That being said, and based only on the images that I have seen thus far, the characters still haven’t shaken that rubbery look CGI motion capture is […]
The image on the left is the movie poster for the feature-film version of the Gerry Anderson-produced 1970’s science fiction series, UFO. While I like the vagueness, I am not too sure that moviegoers that have never seen the original film will know what’s it’s about. Though, when you think about it, they don’t have […]
It’s Not Human. Yet. The prequel to John Carpenter’s eponymously-named film (with potentially the coolest tagline in years) is coming out October 14th; though if you can’t wait 6 days, I may have found something to hold you over till then. Dark Horse Comics has issued a free three-issue digital comic based upon the mythology of […]
This new poster from the upcoming sequel to 2007’s “Ghost Rider” is cool because it it hints at what fans of the character have known all along, which is that he isn’t a “good guy” in the traditional sense (which the flaming skull and hellfire thing should have made readily apparent). He’s a little more […]
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