In the new movie Saving Mr. Banks, director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) tells the tale of how Hollywood mastermind Walt Disney finally convinced Mary Poppins author P. L. Travers to sign over the rights to make the Mary Poppins movie, which is still considered one of the greatest films to date. What is
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! We’ve been meaning to talk about this for weeks, and it’s finally here: the Podcast crew and Beau from The Villainous Lair try to figure out what’s up with “The All-New Marvel NOW.” With over a dozen titles due to be released, revamped, renumbered, or
It was time to go to art school, and I was in need of a computer on the go. While my Compaq Presario had served me well, I made a pit stop at the Apple store to make a pretty expensive purchase. From that moment, I’ve been using the Mac OS X, and while I’ve always
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Still keeping with the Christmas Holiday theme, this week the guys watched one of the few horror Christmas flicks they could find. This year they did 1989s Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! What a terrible movie. A blind psychic
We’re back for another round of long walking in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. We pick up right where the first movie ended: Bilbo, along with Gandalf and Thorin Oakenshield and his twelve companions, continue east to the edge of the forest of Mirkwood where they encounter a skin-changer, are attacked by
While mobile phones are getting smarter, they still require power to run. Plugging your smartphone in before bed has almost become just as important as brushing ones’ teeth. And one thing to be said about charging devices: it never looks pretty. Generally you’ll find a power strip overloaded with a metric ton of chargers and
Lexicon is, for me, one of those books where it’s past midnight and you think “Okay, I really need to get some sleep, I need to put the book down right now. So I will read one more chapter, and that’s it.” And four chapters later you think “Okay, maybe I’ll just have an extra
Well, I’m surprised it took Telltale Games this long to announce a Game of Thrones property. Details on the ground are scarce so far, little more than a single twitter post: It’s TRUE! We’re working with @HBO to create an all-new episodic game series based on GAME OF THRONES in 2014! #VGX pic.twitter.com/d5GkhS2MOw It’s an
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! This week the crew find themselves in a last minute recording session and nothing ready to talk about! What instead develops is the aimless ramblings of 3 of the greatest geeks in the world! Together we discuss Amazon’s experimental drone delivery, where