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23FebFebruary 23, 2023

Is There a Spiderman Deal?

This week there was a flurry of reports about a new Sony/Marvel Spiderman something starring Tom Holland being in the works. It’s been all over the fan sites and Polygon (which is more of an anti-fan site). Except there hasn’t been an announcement. It has been better than a year since Spiderman: No Way Home was released. The third of Holland’s Spiderman outings raked in nearly two billion in box office receipts worldwide, and easily shot past that line when you factor in the...

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23FebFebruary 23, 2023

Captain Harlock Creator Leiji Matsumoto Passes at 85

Matsumoto's work was Generation X's entry drug into the world of Anime. The body of his work is some of the most legendary in the field. It's fair to say that he is up there with Osamu Tezuka. Matsumoto's work includes such epics as Space Battleship Yamato, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, and Galaxy Express 999. From Clownfish TV: Leiji Matsumoto was born as Akira Matsumoto on January 25, 1938 in the city of Kurume Fukuoka, which is in the southern part of Japan....

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22FebFebruary 22, 2023

The Dark Herald Recommends: Lockwood & Co

This one was nowhere on my radar. I just saw an interesting thumbnail on Netflix Trending and decided to give it twenty seconds before surfing on. The opening scene started with tense music setting the tone as a London taxi stopped in front of a private residence. Two teenagers, a boy and a girl get out and are clearly repeating battleplans they have memorized but are going over one last time. They are walking quickly, the camera cuts to a waist-high shot and both...

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22FebFebruary 22, 2023

Paramount’s Body Positive Superheroine

No, I'm not making this up at all. The heifer heroine is called Zephyr. I thought Zepplin might have been more appropriate. This comic book that you have never heard of is called Faith. It's published by Valient and I had go check to make sure they were still in business. Yeah, they are again, at the moment, but it's the usual thing these days of using comic books as a pitch for movie and TV projects. I'm a...

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21FebFebruary 21, 2023

Was All of The Rings of Power AI Generated?

"The orcs’ response was a deafening onslaught of claws, claws, and claws; even Elrond was forced to retreat. “You are in good hands, dwarf,” said Gimli, who had been among the first to charge at the orcs; it took only two words before their opponents were reduced to a blood-soaked quagmire, and the dwarf took his first kill of the night. The battle lasted for hours until two of the largest Orcs attempted to overwhelm Aragorn. When they finally stopped,...

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20FebFebruary 20, 2023

That’s a Dude

You are forbidden to find women atractive. Okay, I admit Nebula really isn't there to be easy on the eyes for guys but Karen Gillan can still manage it even through the makeup. That is NOT Karen Gillan's body. That is a dude's body that her head has been photoshopped on to it. There is a straight line going from the armpit to the knee. For reference here is Karen in Jumanji. Discuss on Social Galactic You will note that...

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20FebFebruary 20, 2023

The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend: Antman and the Wasp Quantomania

I have rarely seen a genre movie so dripping with contempt for its core audience. Nineteen eighties Mexican sword and sandals videos had more respect for the people that would be seeing it than this flick did. There are no characters, only cut-and-paste caricatures. This is no plot, only a series of ridiculous contrivances. This entire motion picture has been built around appearance for the sake of appearance. It is a Disney Frankenstein. This film is broken. Like its namesake, there is no substance...

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18FebFebruary 18, 2023

More Bad News for Brie Larson

The Marvels had a summer release date of 28 July this year. It just got shoved back to a November 10 launch. It's not quite as bad as the January graveyard but that said, it sure as hell ain't a summer slot either. There were rumors it was testing badly, I think we can now assume they more than rumors. Captain Marvel has been a major and self-awarded headache for Kevin Feige. Feige's ego got in the way of harsh...

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15FebFebruary 15, 2023

Raquel Has Left Us

She was the last of the old-school Hollywood bombshells and the most frequent complaint about her was that she couldn't act. If that was why you were watching Raquel Welch, you were doing life wrong. She arrived in a Life magazine spread called "The End of the Great Girl Drought." This got her a 7-year / 5-picture deal with 20th Century Fox. The studio wanted her to change her name to Debbie, instead, she made Raquel a household name. She...

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15FebFebruary 15, 2023

RUMOR ALERT: Hogwarts Legacy TV Show

Warner Brothers' earnings call is ten days away. Zaslav will be making a number of announcements both good and bad. Because he has to be seen to be doing something. The most important this time is going to be who he is picking to run Wizarding World Productions (or whatever they are calling the Harry Potter Universe). Zaslav needs something more solid than a name, he has to announce a production but if the DCU is anything to go by, he isn't going...

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