“Oh god, they are sitting and talking AGAIN!” I had said before that this show, (and indeed all Marvel mini-series on Disney Plus) was originally pitched as a film with a run time of about two hours. It was turned into a miniseries by stuffing 4 extra hours of pointless padding. Sitting and talking to be specific. We are now three episodes in, and last night’s episode ended in a cliffhanger. The only time Loki is acting in character is when there isn’t a...
I told you not to do that. It's no secret that Netflix marketing plan is throw some shit at the wall and see what sticks. They are actually worse than Amazon in that way. For every Dark Crystal reboot, they have about five of these things but I will grant this year's crop from the big red N is unusually bad. FIRST Sexy Beasts A furry dating show, not kidding, wish I was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJO5m6EFL6A The absurd part is the pretense that these couples aren't attractive under the...
Meet Rachel Zegler, the new Snow White, in Disney's live action Snow White. Don't pretend you are surprised. Upside, she at least can sing, the original from the 1938's singing was like fingernails on a chalkboard.
From Deadline: " Harrison Ford hurt himself rehearsing a fight scene in Indiana Jones 5, sources tell Deadline. The extent of his injury wasn’t immediately known..." Yeah, I bet. "...but it involves his shoulder. Director James Mangold will continue to shoot around him while the appropriate course of treatment is evaluated. The filming schedule will be reconfigured as needed in the coming weeks. Ford suffered a serious injury when his leg was broken by a hydraulic door in a freak accident on the set of the...
I don't know why yet. First two, off the top of my head guesses are: DisCon didn't (or more likely couldn't) meet their Diversity and Inclusion quotas. Or they were furious because DisCon ordered the Hugos to create a special category for video games this year. Whatever the reason, it will have nothing to do with the literary integrity of the Hugo Award because that was pissed away years ago. Developing.
Book discussions were a staple of the old Dark Herald blog it’s long past time I did one here. Holland is a very unusual setting for a fantasy setting. The reason is both simple and complicated. The simple explanation is that you try to base a fantasy template on the mythology of a real country and Holland doesn’t have any myths. It’s not that they are just too dour and business-minded to consider something as frivolous as a mythology. It’s that there is no...
This week's addition focuses on "The Legend" Chuck Dixon. Go Monster Go "The way we name towns has always been a little odd in America. On the East Coast most everything seems to be named for something or someone from the old country, New York, New Jersey, Charleston (King Charles Town when founded), King George got a whole state named after him. When you get to the Midwest it’s either Native American or French names with some stuff from classical literature thrown in: Chicago, Detroit, Cicero,...
Well, I hardly know where to begin. So, I’ll start with the parks. Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party is a big tradition at Disney World. It is a ticketed event, meaning you have to pay extra to attend. Trick or Treating is going on all over the park. A standup comedian is doing her set dressed as a ghost at the Haunted Mansion. There is a party exclusive show inside Space Mountain. Other special events are all over the park that night, unique ice...
That is pretty much what Disney World is going to be. Budget Cut Bob Cheapek is in the process of destroying the parks in the name of being chintzy. Lets take a quick look at the strategic picture so we can better understand how badly Chapek is getting it wrong. First and foremost; the resorts are Disney World’s real money volcano, not the parks. Sure, there is some money to be made off of a day-tripper that lives in Jackson, FL. But it doesn’t...
There is a great little horror film from a few years ago called The Witch. It’s about a puritan family in Massachusetts that is torn apart and destroyed by Satanic Witchcraft. The family had become convinced that their Billy-goat, Black Phillip is the devil. At the end of the movie only Thomasin, the thirteen-year-old daughter is left alive after having been forced to kill her mother in self-defense. In despair, she goes to the barn and urges Black Phillip to speak to...
