Legendary military science fiction author David Drake has passed away at the age of 78.David Drake was born in Dubuque Iowa in 1945. His studies at Duke Law were interrupted when he was drafted into the Army. He served with the "Black Horse Regiment." in Vietnam and Cambodia. After the war, he finished his legal studies and became an Assistant DA in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He eventually quit the law to become a bus driver.In 1978,...
BUMPED: due to a busted knuckle. (12/8/23)Pennyworth caught my attention in passing. There was something else on Epix,* I wanted to watch when I spotted its thumbnail. I appear to have become something of a branch swinger so far as the streaming services go. I enroll in one for a month, watch its halo properties, and then cancel and move on to the next service, leaving the last one sobbing in broken-hearted misery.DC’s Pennyworth was clearly supposed to be about Bruce Wayne’s faithful...
As bad as November was for Bob Iger, December has been so much worse.Yesterday the Reedy Creek Improvement District was read into the record, this is now a public document anyone can read. The investigations in Florida are already underway. Whether the Fed will do anything about a company so thoroughly connected to the Democratic party is another question. I am doubtful but it can do nothing about Florida's investigations and once those convictions start coming in,...
I am not a notable fan of the Daily Wire. I personally tend to view it as Instapundit with money. I ignore it for the same reason that I ignore Fox News. While I am uninterested in its media content I'm not unaware of it It was nice that they gave Gina Carrano a movie to star in after Kathleen Kennedy and LucasFilm torched her career for political reasons. The Ladyballers movie looked a hell of...
The Reedy Creek audit is in, and oh my glob, somebody at Disney is going to have to take one for the team and do some time.It won't be Iger but somebody is going to jail for over this stuff. This is an 80-page report so it will take some time to get through but Disney rhinoed its way through most of the public disclosure "sunshine laws" in Florida. The baseline problem they can probably get around is...
This film knocks it so far out of the park, the ball lands on the Moon. It is unquestionably the very best Godzilla movie of all time. Yes, I am including the unbelievably gutsy 1954 original and that is not a statement I would make lightly. In this case, I make it unreservedly. Something that has been long forgotten about Gojira (1954) is that it was a movie about people. It was a story about a country trying to come to...
I will be seeing Godzilla Minus One this weekend if it freaking kills me. Which it may, and I don't care. I. Will. Do. This. Thing.In the meantime, we will be looking in on the Kaiju movie that never was: The Return of Gorgo.Here's what I had to say about the OG Gorgo.For some peculiar reason, Godzilla is only popular in Japan and America. Other countries are aware of him but they never took the interest in...
Oh, yeah. Without question.The Bob Iger from twenty years ago would never have made the mistakes he made this November. Iger has enough problems without inviting more to the party. Something to remember about Bob is that his first big dream was to be an anchorman to rival Walter Cronkite. When he gave up his dream of being an anchorman he switched to a business track in ABC News's Wide World of Sports. TV journalists are convinced...
I have some fairly serious doubts about it but is there perhaps a ray or two of sunshine to be found behind what are the admittedly fairly ominous clouds surrounding the Netflix series of films? The showrunner is Mathew Aldritch. A quick scan of his IMDB page reveals that he was the writer of Coco. Yay! Sadly, he was also one of the writers on Lightyear. aww. So that is kind of a fifty-fifty chance. He appears to have left Pixar...
Wish has flopped. It’s official. As of this writing, it has hauled in less than $49 million. It is Disney’s seventh bomb this year and it’s ninth bomb in a row (excluding Guardians 3). Wish is Bob Iger’s disaster. He owns it, every decision he’s made for the last six years contributed to its abject failure. The ever-easily-trained Hollywood trade press has pulled out its official Disney Flop Playbook, flipped to some fairly dog-eared pages, and began reciting the list...
