Category: Entertainment
Comic Con Sees Release of DC’s Titans Trailer
San Diego Comic Con 2018 is in full swing, and with that comes new trailers! Today’s is Titans, the eagerly awaited first look at the DC streaming service’s first original program. As background, I’m a comics — primarily DC — fan, and have been very much looking forward to this tra...
Read MoreYou Should Be Watching: Amos and Andrew (1993)
“I know for all your talk, you’re about the whitest damn black man I ever met.” Welcome back to You Should be Watching, where I recommend movies and TV series that I find underrated. This week we’re going back to 1993 with Amos and Andrew. This dark comedy has a great cast and deals ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Amazing Spider-Man #1 (2018)
“With great power must also come great responsibility.” That singular phrase is what writer Nick Spencer and artist Ryan Ottley were entrusted with when they took their respective torches from Dan Slott and his menagerie of collaborators during his run on Marvel’s flagship masked hero. This un...
Read MorePutting the Super Back in Superhero
One of the most appealing things about superheroes is the element of fantasy; they are, essentially, wish fulfillment, vehicles through which downtrodden, imperfect people like us can imagine having the ability to right all the wrongs in our lives, to save the day while making ourselves a little hap...
Read MoreWhat I’ve Been Playing: Friday the 13th: The Game
I’d classify myself as a Friday the 13th fan, albeit a casual one. I’ve always been more of a Freddy guy, but my friend Scott got me into the franchise late in my horror film-watching life. He showed me Parts 4-6, and it converted me, even if Part 5 wasn’t the best. But when I heard … ...
Read MoreYou Should Be Watching: Over the Garden Wall (2014)
Welcome back to You Should be Watching, where I recommend a lesser known movie or TV series each week. This week we’re getting lost in the Unknown with Cartoon Network’s miniseries Over the Garden Wall. Inspired by the award-winning 2013 short film Tome of the Unknown, Over the Garden Wall was f...
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