We are currently living in a golden age of indie horror games. The last five years have seen an explosion in a genre that used to get one game a year back in the 1990s and one every three years during the double Os. Those AAA titles were good games, certainly better than what we get now from major studios but good horror? Well... Not so much really. They all had their moments to be sure. Clive Barker’s Undying was...
I had assumed and not without reason that DC had survived the Great Zaslav Purge. DC Comics was peeled down to the bone to include losing their office spaces but they kept churning out their sludge month after month even after they had been ordered to assemble character bibles for their intellectual properties. Being in comics and told to assemble character bibles is the equivalent of an IT engineer being told, "This is our new hire Rajeesh. I need...
BUMPED FOR HALLOWEEN (10/17/23): This review dates from before Amazon decided in its infinite tastelessness, to cancel it. There is a lot of new material I added. Remember when Doctor Who didn't suck? Yeah, I know it's been a while. But fourteen years ago, it was something special. The first season was a pretty decent reboot but the show really found its footing in the second year. The best episode of that season was easily the Impossible Planet/Satan Pit a...
Marvel Studio’s last mega-budget project for this year is The Marvels. The once invincible superhero movie company has undergone a box office collapse this year. The last big success with the Marvel name on it was Spiderman No Way Home (2021), which unquestionably blew the doors off at $1.9 billion but was questionable as a “Marvel Film”. It felt a lot more like a Sony film than what Kevin Feige has been launching since Endgame. The final tally for Doctor Strange...
I don't have Paramount+ at the moment but that is about to change...again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNBnO-0mpiE
Just a couple for today. Some things that made the headlines, or to be more exact Disney put in the headlines. First up, rumors are suddenly flying around that Disney wants to buy Electronic Arts. Darklings: What? Seriously? Disney can barely keep the lights on as it is. Which would be a good reason to buy something expensive. I know it’s counterintuitive because when you and I buy something expensive, we have to pay money for it and we no longer have...
It has reached the point where I have to occasionally be forcibly reminded that DC Comics remains in existence. I wouldn't remember otherwise. The movies are easier to remember, although that is decidedly a double-edged sword. Once Aquaman 2 fails the era of the Gunn-verse will properly begin. Frankly, I'm not too certain it's going to last all that long. Thanks to Marvel the superhero genre is on life support. It says so much about DC's current...
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Hollywood is shocked and aghast today. The whole business world has been left reeling by the news. Nelson Peltz is launching another bid to get on the Walt Disney Company Board of Directors. Who could have foreseen this? Well, me for one. I predicted this was coming several times this past year. #TheDarkHeraldWasRight Peltz has literally tripled the amount of shares that his Trion Group controls. This makes Nelson Peltz about the fifth biggest stockholder in Disney. Given the price of Disney stock...
“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.” That fantastic line is the opener for Ray Bradbury’s classic boys' horror story Something Wicked This Way Comes. And it is one of the few parts of the story that Disney got right. There are plenty of critics of this movie whose entire criticism is based on its, admittedly, sub-par interpretation of the story. I sympathize. When I first saw the movie, I hadn’t read the book yet, so my own...
