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28JunJune 28, 2023

The New Lois and Superman

James Gunn has made his choice for his new Man of Steel and Intrepid, Award Winning Reporter.David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan.Mister Corenswet (I’m done spelling his last name) is kind of below the radar. His parents were both lawyers. His primary school was the very private, K-12 “The Shipley” (student body pop, 341). Followed by the Ivy League, UPenn. Then a graduate degree at Julliard. Not my first choice for a Midwest farm boy but then a Jerseyman from the Channel Islands wouldn’t have...

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27JunJune 27, 2023

The Head Reimagineer Has Left Disney

Latondra "Ton" Newton, the Chief Diversity Officer at Disney and the head of Reimagine Tomorrow has left the company.From Bounding Into Comics:“To our extended DEI and HR team, I’m writing to share the news that Latondra Newton has decided to leave The Walt Disney Company to pursue other endeavors,” wrote Disney HR head Sonia Coleman, per a copy of the memo obtained by Variety. “Since joining the company in 2017, Latondra has led the company’s strategic diversity, equity and...

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26JunJune 26, 2023

Sad But Expected News

The remains of genre actor Julian Sands have probably been found.Sands was well-known for his eclectic choice of roles during the eighties and nineties. While he was in such Merchant Ivory fair as a Room with a View, he was also in art house films like Boxing Helena and Naked Lunch. But where he really made his mark was in genre titles like Warlock, Vibes (very under rated), Arachnaphobia, Tale of Vampire and Phantom of the Opera (1998)....

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26JunJune 26, 2023

The End Times Are Upon Twitch

I'm grateful that I'm too old to get into Twitch. While I can understand why hardcore gamers would want to watch top-tier players to hopefully pick up some techniques and tactics, the Twitch THOT was for a long time less explicable to me.I mean I can understand something like Chaturbate. That's comprehensible if less than laudable but at least I can see what they are getting out of that.It took me a while to figure out why guys were...

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23JunJune 23, 2023

First Impressions: Secret Invasion

Usual disclaimer, this is not a review. I will not do a proper review of Secret Invasion until after the series wraps. I have had to institute this rule specifically because of Marvel TV shows. They usually start off acceptable or in the case of Moon Knight, even good. They stumble badly in the second episode and by the third, yep, it's a Marvel show.In this case, I don't need to worry about that as much...

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21JunJune 21, 2023

Cheap Thrills: The Games Edition

AAA game releases in 2023 have reached new heights of incompetence. There is $0.99 shovelware out there that is truthfully more technically adept than Red Fall or Gollum. While Red Fall was at least hilariously incompetent (and therefore had some entertainment value), Gollum was depressingly so. Was either worth the price?I will grant that Hogwarts Legacy did indeed achieve the minimum acceptable level of performance, certainly better than the 11 frames per second that Red Fall achieved… On the minimum freaking settings. And I’ve...

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21JunJune 21, 2023

The Big Based Book Sale!

Unlock your mind with the finest of independent non-Woke writers out there!The Big Based Book Sale is LIVE!The contributors include science fiction grandmasters, Dragon Award winners and nominees, established mainstream authors, and emerging indie talent. Authors include P. Alexander, James Alderdice, Jon Del Arroz, Jonathan P. Brazee, Jim Breyfogle, Henry Brown, Howard Butcher, Blake Carpenter, Kit Sun Cheah, J.D. Cohen, Nick Cook, Kacey Ezell, Warren Fahy, Eric Flint, Marina Fontaine, Milo James Fowler, Dennis Garcia, Karl Gallagher, Michael Gallagher, Leonard...

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20JunJune 20, 2023

John Romita Sr. 1930-2023

I should have covered this last week but I had a lot of personal issues got in the way.John Romita Sr was a legendary Marvel artist. He's up there with Adams and Kirby. He made his biggest mark on Spiderman and the funny thing.is he didn't really want the job. He was assigned to the web-slinger when Ditko walked away from the project. He figured it was a temporary gig and grimly set about churning out Ditko pastiche...

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19JunJune 19, 2023

The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend: The Flash

Maybe there is an alternate universe where DC films are getting the respect they deserve. In that world, someone at Warner Brothers had the sense god gave a chicken and made a film series based on the Justice League cartoons of the 00s. In that world, there was a proper build-up for the longest and best-established superheroes in comics, Henry Cavil has had a great run as the Man of Steel, Batman is dark and engaging, Zach Snyder was never involved...

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19JunJune 19, 2023

Box Office Aftermath

Welcome to Black Monday, or given the financials involved Red Monday. We have two flops today for the price of one.Pixar’s Elemental pulled in its expected anemic performance of $29.5 million domestic and a much worse $15 million foreign. The total for what is quietly being rumored to be Pixar’s last round-up at less than $45 million for the global take against a budget of $250 million. Normally marketing costs would double the budget but not in this case because advertising money was...

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