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23MarMarch 23, 2021

English Patient Zero: The Death of the Oscars

A few years ago, I actively participated in the destruction of a major award.Okay, that isn’t exactly accurate.The Hugos were never a major award, and my activity was limited to buying a WorldCon membership and voting the Rabid Puppies ballot. But nonetheless, I made my voice heard. The Hugos had always claimed that they represented the very best in science fiction and fantasy and at one time this was pretty much true. Science fiction novels from the fifties and sixties that won the...

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23MarMarch 23, 2021

Disney Screws the Theaters Afterall

This is my shocked face.Despite all of the promises that Disney made to the theaters last year about how they would never think about putting Black Widow in the Theaters before they put that flick on Disney Plus, they are now putting it on Disney Plus.From Bounding Into comics"Just a month ago, Disney CEO Bob Chapek confirmed to investors that Black Widow would be a theatrical release. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Chapek stated, “We...

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22MarMarch 22, 2021

Happy Birthday Captain Kirk

William Shatner turns 90 today. And looks better than Patrick Stewart who is younger than he is.

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22MarMarch 22, 2021

First Impressions: Falcon and the Winter Solider

“Bored now!”That was my reaction after the first ten minutes.Originally, the Marvel release order for 2020 was supposed to be Black Widow, Falcon and the Winter Solider, then Wanda Vision. I now know why they changed the launch dates. Black Widow cost several hundred million and they need to try and get that back from the theaters (if at all possible), fine and unavoidable in our plague year. But Wanda Vision was simply a more engaging show than this. While I certainly had...

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19MarMarch 19, 2021

End of an Era

Opinions change with time. Below is an arbitrary listicle I whipped up for my old site. I am including the original preamble despite the fact that I am now going to contradict it at the end of the listicle. REPOST 3/19/21I had recently remarked that Avengers Infinity War was almost but not quite my new number one superhero film. Which naturally provoked the question of, what are my top five superhero movies?This arbitrary list is made up of the superhero films that...

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18MarMarch 18, 2021

The Dark Herald Recommends: Zach Snyder’s Justice League

Let’s be clear this is a self-indulgent mess. A gorgeous self-indulgent mess to be sure but still a self-indulgent mess.I’ll start with the biggest question out there, is it better than the Joss Whedon version?Answer: Yes. Easily. It’s a much better version than Whedon’s. Even with its flaws this movie completely outclasses the Gamma Goblin’s take on itThis film is over four hours long and you really, really feel it. Also, this movie is a massive middle finger to Joss Whedon. Absolutely nothing that Whedon shot made...

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17MarMarch 17, 2021

What’s Bad Reboot Wrecking Now?

The answer, of course is, everything it touches. Although you might want some specifics.Or you might not as they are likely to prove heartbreaking but forewarned is forearmed. You already knew that Superman is in the process of being destroyed by J.J Abrams. I am reasonably certain that a big part of reason that Abrams is going with black Supes is his standard practice of making sure that all characters are “noticeably 25% different.” This lets J.J. have a big slice of all the...

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17MarMarch 17, 2021

Justice League: What’s at Stake

For us? Nothing. In the best of Generation-X tradition, we get to sit back and watch the world burn. But there are some things at stake here.The Snyder Cut comes out tomorrow and it’s no secret that the current Warner Brothers leadership wants it to fail. They are pissed at their bosses at AT&T. Efforts to sabotage the Snyder Cut are more obvious than Kathleen Kennedy’s attempts to kneecap The Mandalorian. The Snyder Cut is already out on high seas, and that data is...

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17MarMarch 17, 2021

Forbes Puts Bob Chapek on Blast

This isn't Variety. This isn't The Hollywood Reporter. This is freaking Forbes."Disney’s Firing Of Gina Carano Is Confusing And Hypocritical – Lacking Sound Management"THAT'S THE HEADLINE!Producers read The Hollywood Reporter. Board members read Forbes. It doesn't matter when fans are angry. They mean nothing. It does matter when the money is mad and this article indicates that the major stockholders are furious.I haven't seen these kinds of headlines about Disney from major business publications since right before Michael Eisner...

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15MarMarch 15, 2021

Conan The Barbarian: Issue 19

What the hell? A good Marvel comic? How did this happen?I suppose with a company as big as Disney something good can still get produced. By accident if nothing else. And this is indeed something good, (the Dark Herald shakes his head in disbelief). It feels like the old Savage Sword of Conan magazine’s from the 1970s.The fifties (reprint of Conan stories) created a new market for Conan in the Sixties. Fans of the savage Cimmerian began pelting Marvel with requests to run a...

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