Do you remember when I told you that the current plan for the new Star Wars movie was to star the following?ReyChewbaccaR2-D2Baby YodaAnd As Yet Unnamed Character to be Introduced in the Disney + Star Wars Show?Yeah. For those you lucky enough to not watch it, this was in most of the last episode.That's Katie O'Brien. Martial arts instructor, former cop, body builder and a lesbian with a wife. Disney is suddeny injecting her into everything and giving her...
This artwork is so bad.Rick and Morty is a cartoon for grownups.It’s okay I guess, but it’s a cartoon for grownups and frankly a pretty overrated one. It’s not going to be remembered alongside the Simpsons, South Park or even Venture Brothers. And you can just forget about it being held up to any halfway-decent anime title. For those of you who have never seen it, don’t bother it’s gone way downhill in recent years but at its height, it was basically a...
There is enough buzz about this that I felt I should say something about it.Here are the facts. About a month before Antman and the Wasp: Quantomania was released there was a script leak for it on Reddit. The script in question was a subtitle script. The thing the studio sends to foreign distributors so they can insert the subtitles in their country's language. The language in question was Portuguese, which all but guarantees that the leaker is...
So much wasted franchise in one pictureAntman and the Wasp Quantomania is officially a disaster.Its third-weekend box office take is so anemic you’d think it was attacked by a vampire and after a manner of speaking, it was. Antman 3 will not break the $500 million mark in theaters. Every Disney Marvel movie after Black Widow crashed on takeoff, has lost money. Shang Chi, The Eternals, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, Wakanda Forever and now Antman and Wasp Quantomania. The trajectory of...
The second episode of The Mandalorian aired last Wednesday and I have yet to hear a peep out of Fort Mickey. Whenever the streamer studios have one of their exceedingly rare wins they screech it from the rooftops. HBOmax pounded its chest about House of the Dragon and The Last of Us. Paramount struts around bragging about Yellowstone’s numbers. Even Amazon felt the need to brag when The Rings of Power debuted (the numbers were a fantasy, but they felt the need to brag...
My loyal Darklings know that their herald is not given to false or indeed any kind of modesty whatsoever. It is alien to my nature. I'm just not good at it and it's usually embarrassing for all involved when I try. Painful self assessment is another matter entirely. I can do that just fine.Consequently, when I say that John C. Wright leaves me so far in the dust as a writer that the dust has long settled, been...
When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?-Robert E. HowardI was born into a world where an average boy’s upbringing would be viewed as terrifyingly savage by today’s standards. It was a world without the leash and safety net of a cell phone. We rode gravel byways on our...
BUMPED: I got a special Barbarian-flavored treat coming for you tomorrow night.Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered...
One of the first things that Bob Iger declared upon retaking the Golden Mouse Throne was that THE MESSAGE would remain in place. Disney just needed to be more entertaining while they did it.The stupidity of restoring Bob Iger to the position of CEO of the Walt Disney Company after he created all the problems that the Disney company is suffering from will be taught in business classes for decades to come. His removal was always tenuous at best. Of the 12 members...
