Monthly Archives - December 2023

First Impressions: The Pendragon Cycle

I am not a notable fan of the Daily Wire. I personally tend to view it as Instapundit with money. I ignore it for the same reason that I ignore Fox News. While I am uninterested in its media content I'm not unaware of it It was nice that they gave Gina Carrano a movie to star in after Kathleen Kennedy and LucasFilm torched her career for political reasons. The Ladyballers movie looked a hell of...

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The Reedy Creek Audit

The Reedy Creek audit is in, and oh my glob, somebody at Disney is going to have to take one for the team and do some time. It won't be Iger but somebody is going to jail for over this stuff. This is an 80-page report so it will take some time to get through but Disney rhinoed its way through most of the public disclosure "sunshine laws" in Florida. The baseline problem they can probably get around is...

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The Dark Herald Recommends: Godzilla Minus One 

This film knocks it so far out of the park, the ball lands on the Moon.  It is unquestionably the very best Godzilla movie of all time.  Yes, I am including the unbelievably gutsy 1954 original and that is not a statement I would make lightly. In this case, I make it unreservedly.  Something that has been long forgotten about Gojira (1954) is that it was a movie about people.  It was a story about a country trying to come to...

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Arhaven Spotlight: The Return of Gorgo

I will be seeing Godzilla Minus One this weekend if it freaking kills me. Which it may, and I don't care. I. Will. Do. This. Thing. In the meantime, we will be looking in on the Kaiju movie that never was: The Return of Gorgo. Here's what I had to say about the OG Gorgo. For some peculiar reason, Godzilla is only popular in Japan and America. Other countries are aware of him but they never took the interest in him...

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Has Bob Iger Lost His Fastball?

Oh, yeah. Without question. The Bob Iger from twenty years ago would never have made the mistakes he made this November. Iger has enough problems without inviting more to the party. Something to remember about Bob is that his first big dream was to be an anchorman to rival Walter Cronkite. When he gave up his dream of being an anchorman he switched to a business track in ABC News's Wide World of Sports. TV journalists are convinced...

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