It’s Rivendell meets Casablanca, Oz in No Man’s Land, wrapped up safe in its indestructible snowglobe… …It only gets more ominous as we get closer… Keep reading for a review of Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans’ Die #4.
Netflix continues its massive reign of dropping great new original-content shows. Almost monthly now it seems, always something new and completely different. This month their big drop was The Umbrella Academy, based on the Dark Horse Comics series by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá. The plot revolves around a dysfunctional family of adopted sibling superheroes who
A mutation in Toxoplasmosis causes menstruating women to turn into ferocious killer wildcats – easily provoked and extremely dangerous. As panic spreads and paranoia takes root, the fate of the world rides on the shoulders of one twelve-year-old-girl. So Kelly Sue DeConnick, the writer behind Bitch Planet, said on twitter that Chelsea Cain’s Man-Eaters series is
Hello, You’re Dead. Please Wait In Line. Peter Green wakes up in the lobby of Purgatory – with no memory of how he died – wearing only pinstriped pajamas and a white silk tie, surrounded by dead people. Believe it or not, all of this is perfectly normal, one more newcomer who
It’s only a few hours till the Oscars, so guest reviewer reelrealities returns with a look at 2018’s surprise hit “A Quiet Place.” Horror can be a tricky genre to master. We get scores of horror movies each year but remember only a handful by the end. So it’s refreshing when filmmakers give new twists
The Oscars are almost here, so guest reviewer L. Seymour gives us an Australian’s opinion of Vice. Vice is a biographical drama/comedy written and directed by Adam McKay (The Big Short, Anchorman, Step Brothers, and Talladega Nights). Starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, and Jesse Plemons, the film follows Dick Cheney on his
For the past few years I’ve watched all the Oscar-nominated Documentary Shorts, officially because they’re timely and important films to watch. Unofficially it’s because they’re short, and I can knock out a whole category in an evening. This year, though, it might’ve been better to space them out: they’re well-made, intelligent, and often beautiful, but
I’m still trying to stay on top of my comic reviews, so I’m doubling up again this week, read on for reviews of Monstress #20 and Middlewest #4.
In our continuing series on the Oscar-nominated movies, reviewer narrator26 has a look at Mary Poppins Returns. Mary Poppins is not necessarily a film that I hold dear. The music is wonderful and Julie Andrews is a treasure, but I’ve always found it to be overly scattered and episodic in nature. For this reason, I was a