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03NovNovember 3, 2023

Trailer Drop Thursday: FX’s Shogun

It is difficult to overstate the cultural significance of the mini-series James Clavell's Shogun. That mini-series was broadcast during a period where the big three networks were it and this big of an event was guaranteed to have viewers in the tens of millions. Shogun served as a primer on Japan for Generation X. We learned a few words, understood a few customs (kind of), and decided that Japan was amazingly super cool.We picked up just enough from that...

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02NovNovember 2, 2023

Rumor Alert: Robert Downey Returning to Marvel?

This isn't the kind of rumor I'm usually willing to run with.It's getting reported all over the place but goes against my own instincts. Downey probably is willing to come back in some capacity but there is a catch to it.From Bounding Into Comics:This rumor comes in the wake of a previous one from Tatiana Siegel at Variety who claimed, “Sources say there have been talks to bring back the original gang for an Avengers movie. This would include...

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01NovNovember 1, 2023

Pride Goeth Before a Destruction

Only a very stupid person would think that Bob Iger was stupid. My current project is a history of the collapse of The Walt Disney Company for Castalia House. Consequently, I've been trying to learn everything I can about Robert Iger.He is in truth, a very smart man. However, he is also an extremely haughty man. He overrates his wins and dismisses his failures. Iger accumulated a number of useful business life lessons over the course...

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31OctOctober 31, 2023

Cheap Thrills: The Audio Drama Edition

Where has the audience gone?That is the increasingly terrified cry in Hollywood. In past times, if one form of media lost customers, you didn’t have too much trouble figuring out where they went. Which was to another form of media. In the nineteen-twenties radio bit in to publishing. In the fifties box-office receipts for weeknight showings, dropped severely, while the number of TVs in homes increased. CD sales fell through the basement at the same time that iPods started appearing under Christmas trees. DVD sales...

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30OctOctober 30, 2023

Doctor Who’s Best Horror Episodes

I hadn’t really planned to have a Halloween theme this year, it just sort of happened but since I’ve been leaning so heavily into British Sci-Fi Horror, I would be remise in duties as an internet hack if I didn’t pick the lowest hanging fruit available. For thousands of years The Doctor, a judgmental emo-Mister Spock has sailed across all of time and space in a particularly British peculiarity. He constantly weighs the human race and always finds us wanting but...

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27OctOctober 27, 2023

Arktoons Spotlight: Halloween Special #5

Welcome to the Arktoons Spotlight, a regular feature at the Arkhaven Blog. The Spotlight is where I take a look at one title from the amazing world of Arkhaven’s webtoons. If you aren’t familiar with Arktoons, this is meant for you. I am the Dark Herald; I do the blogging here at Arkhaven.com. The blog is mostly pop culture news, reviews, and opinion, in short, the usual. And you aren’t here for the blog. You’re here for the webtoons. Arkhaven is different from other webtoon publishers. While...

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27OctOctober 27, 2023

Site Maintenance

UPDATE: And we're back!

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25OctOctober 25, 2023

Interview: Alexander Macris

BUMPED 10/25/23: Alexander Marcris' long-awaited kickstarter for his Adventurer Conqueror King II and it has completely blown the doors off. It is currently sitting at FOUR times its goal.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/autarch/adventurer-conqueror-king-system-imperial-imprint-acks-iiLast year I did an interview with Alexander Macris. We covered a variety of his projects to include the first ACK system Here it is:******** Yes, I’m pretending to be a reporter today. Not. A. Journalist. A reporter, there’s a difference in my mind.My introduction to Alexander Macris was rather...

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23OctOctober 23, 2023

More Bad News For Disney

In a major shakeup, Jon Lassetter has moved to Netflix. I was kind of surprised about this myself. Skydance Animation has a huge production deal with Apple TV, it was part of a package deal that predated Lassetter’s joining the company. At the time everyone assumed Apple was taking on Disney head-to-head. Which is a little odd when you think about it. Frankly, the relationship between Disney and Apple has been an unusually close one since Iger bought out Pixar. Bob...

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23OctOctober 23, 2023

It Was Too Good to Be True

The Christopher Nolan plan for a trilogy of classic 1960s-era James Bond movies appears to be dead in the water.Barbara Brocolli has announced plans to further vandalize Ian Fleming's spy hero by... (*easy stomach, don't turnover) Reimagining James Bond for the modern world.The problem is that James Bond's fans aren't as deep into superhero, fantasy, and science fiction as genre fans. Most of Bond's fans are Culturalists and Flirts. Bond's fans are mostly normies, and normies haven't seen...

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