When the Civil War ends, where can a former Confederate soldier go to escape the long memories of neighbors who supported the winning side? Where can Johnny Reb go when he can't go home? He can go out west, where the land is hard, where there is danger on every side, and where no one cares for whom you fought—only how well you can do it. Walt Ames, a former cavalryman with the First Virginia, is headed west with little...
In the post-Civil War West, the railroads are expanding, the big money men are moving in, and the politicians they are buying make it difficult for a man to stand alone on his own. So, Walt Ames moves his wife, his home, and his business from Denver to Pueblo. Ambushed on their way south, Walt and his men uncover a web of corruption and crime to rival anything in the big city. And rough justice, Western-style, sparks a private war...
Oh good. Another Disney trailer has dropped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWTfhyvzTx0 I don't know about you but I am smelling yet another Disney bait and switch. You will note, one of the Inquisitors is a Kick-ass Diverse Woman of Color and in 2022 no KDWC is allowed to be evil. It simply isn't permissible. So either the KDWC is a secret Jedi. Or she has a redemption arc. Or worst of all she will be completely JUSTIFIED in hunting down the Jedi...
I see Sparkly Batman has dropped. From everything I've heard, it's typical Bad Reboot filmmaking. The plot is Seven plus the Batman Long Halloween, plus Batman Year Two, plus Batman Hush. With some fashionable Woke washing. The reviewers that I'm willing to throw the dice on have all said that it's okay, but not great. It's not another Marvel movie, that's nice I guess. But it does have the standard Bad Reboot Wokeisms throughout. Aside from Batman, all the whites are...
You know the rules by now. If you don't then ask one of my regular Darklings in the comments. Not much lead-in material tonight. An elderly relative trusted the nice young man on the phone from India to the tune of $30K. I’m going to be spending most of the night cleaning this mess up. NEXT The embargo on Star Wars Galactic Cruise reviews has been lifted. As I said, there won’t be any honest reviews for a few weeks. Except those honest...
Talk about whatever you want so long as it relates to pop culture. All others get the ax. ******************** Jon Favreau appears to have saved his own ass. The lousy viewing numbers for the first four episodes of The Book of Boba Fett have been completely forgotten about so far as Mickey the Great and Terrible's senior servants are concerned. Episode Six has reportedly tripled the ratings of BBF's opening night. More importantly, much more importantly so far as the executives are concerned,...
UPDATE: No, it isn't real. Although given how stupid the fashions were in the 1970s it's understandable. You know the rules. Don't break them. ********************* Something for Markku https://twitter.com/dhtoomey/status/1481747171842183173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1481747171842183173%7Ctwgr%5Ehb_2_8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F ************************************ Tom Holland is to be the new Ironman. Sort of. What I mean by that is he (according to some very reliable sources) is about to become the new face of the MCU. A job that Kevin Feige had sworn to himself was going to belong to Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel. Mostly because he had convinced himself that after the successes...
Post what you like so long as it is pop culture-related. All others will be deleted. ****************************** Legendary Films has had enough of Warner Brothers BS. The new Godzilla series is NOT going to be streamed on HBOmax. It is going to be Apple TV+. Considering how badly Warner wanted this for HBOmax it is a fairly gigantic middle finger to the house that Bugs built. The sad truth of Warner Brothers is that if it weren't for Paramount, they would...
I'm going to have to process the Batman Webtoon before giving you my take on it. In the meantime enjoy some me time. FIRST The Matrix Resurrection Trailer. There hasn't been a Matrix movie since the Wachowski Sisters were the Wachowski Brothers. I liked the first movie. Admittedly, I didn't know how much of its cool look was the result of fairly extreme sexual submissive fetishism and male body dysmorphia. Regardless, I still liked the first one but they kept revisiting the...
A remake of Shogun? Seriously? There were quite a few other announcements I didn’t get to on Friday’s post because I don’t care about them, but a few of my readers do, so here we go. Let’s get the minor stuff out the way. There were a few hurried announcements for stuff that Disney apparently forgot they owned now. FIRST F/X is going to be doing an Alien series that is rumored to be set on Earth and is allegedly retconning everything that happened after Aliens. So,...
