What is Marvel Doing to Captain America this Week?

REPOST: 7/11/24There is zero interest in Falcon America Brave New World. But it does look like Disney/Marvel thinks they have something that won't look like a total joke if they put it in theaters. Since the Marvel brain trust was fired and replaced with DEI quotas there is very little hope for it. Feige has absolutely not gone back to formula that made Marvel a boxoffice juggernaut. He's hoping that a vaguely anti-Trump Woke-lite plot will put him back on...

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Shelly Duvall RIP

Noted genre actress Shelly Duvall has passed today at the age of seventy five due to complications resulting from diabetes. One of acting’s little secrets is that it is mostly genetics more than anything else.  What bag of tricks did fate leave in your cradle as an infant? Was it the emotional vampirism so necessary in driving a practitioner of the craft forward? Was it the ability to lift one eyebrow? Was it that indefinable quality called, ‘the magic’? Was it...

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Disney Deathwatch (7/10/24)

The AcolyteThere’s a number of things I’d rather do than get caught up on The Acolyte but given the interest around it I have little choice.  It has managed the impressive feat of stirring up the kind of hatred that hasn’t surrounded a Star Wars project since The Last Jedi. While The Rise of Skywalker was certainly hated that was mostly because of its utter cinematic incompetence. As bad as it was, it was an attempt at course correction.  The Last...

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The Skydance/Paramount Merger is Back On

#TheDarkHeraldWasRight  As I said, “Redstone is hot to sell and Skydance is hot to buy, so this is now just negotiating.”The walking away from the table was just another negotiating ploy.  Turns out that Shari Redstone was trying to get to the price she wanted, and she appears to have gotten there. Skydance and Paramount have agreed to a merger.  Shari Redstone’s worthless stock will now be turned into something valuable. Namely 8 billion bucks.   At the time of their...

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Kotaku Australia Has Folded

My heart!  Oh, my poor wounded heart!  Kotaku Down Under is no more! Won’t someone please think of the children?If I was a better person, I’d be trying to come up with some kind of emotion tangential to empathy. After all, Kotaku wasn’t always this steaming, radioactive pile.  When it first launched this was its mascot, which tells you just about everything it used to be. Brian Crecente was brought in a month after Kotaku launched in 2006 and turned it...

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The Star Wars Holiday Special Wasn’t That Bad

At least not by 1970s TV standards.Here is the first appearance of the Justice League on TV. It was in 1979, Wonder Woman was still in production and Lynda Carter wasn't in this. Lynda Carter felt she was too good to appear in this thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUTCePDSYy8 There is no part II. The guy doing this video gave up.Discuss on Social Galactic

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What the Sandman Dreams Of

WARNING THE FOLLOWING IS GRAPHICI really didn’t want to write this article but it’s clear that the media has been given orders to protect Neil Gaiman.It’s been so long since I first picked up a Sandman comic book that I honestly don’t remember which story I came in on.  Preludes and Nocturnes had wrapped, which I remember because I had to buy the graphic novel. In my youth, I tended to think too highly of artists. I honestly, believed that...

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RE:View Time Bandits

"Removing his helmet reveals himself to be none other than Sean Connery or an actor of equal but cheaper stature."  This joke, made on a golf course is more or less how got Time Bandits got greenlit.  The Joke was made to Sean Connery himself, and he liked it.  It was the start of trend for him during the eighties.  Highlander, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and a few others. Time Bandits is the most inexplicable kids’ film of all time. Possibly...

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