If you’re anything like me, you took a little extra time while reading George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire to visualize the passages in which he describes the foods of his world. He pays special attention to describing the meals in loving detail, encouraging my inner fatty to fantasize about shoveling all
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Continuing our love of older comic book movies, we returned to old Marvel characters this week by watching 1998’s Blade. Wesley Snipes is our hero, a half-vampire known as Blade, The Daywalker. He hates vampires (like, really hates them) and his mission
This is the season for movie trailers. After watching the Star Trek: Into Darkness and Superman: Man of Steel trailers, I figured I was done. But then I remembered that Edgar Wright was doing another flick called The World’s End. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost return for what’s supposed to be the final adventure of the “Blood and
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Were you destined to be a Geek? Do you find something that inspires you Geekdom? Join our heroes and heroine this week as they answer one of the toughest questions in all of Geekdom. In your life, were you destined to become
Walt Disney and Electronic Arts announced plans to develop and publish a new series of Star Wars game titles for the next few years. “Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe,” said EA Labels President Frank Gibeau. “Three of our top studios will fulfill that dream, crafting epic adventures for Star
In 1999, Fox released the movie X-Men, a remarkable achievement considering the previous track record with big budget comic book movies (BatmanForever, we’re looking at you). Fans of the franchise got to see reasonably accurate portrayals of their favorite characters. Spider-man quickly followed, proving to the world that comic book properties were money making landmines. Since
Once more the summer movies are here, bringing with it the onslaught of “The Summer Big Budget Blockbuster”. And in what has become a tradition, Marvel Studios is once more ushering in the beginning of the season with another action packed movie. This year, Iron Man is back in his third solo adventure: Iron Man
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! With summer movie season upon us and a number of comic book movies on the horizon this year, this month we wanted to watch some of their predecessors. Starting off our month right we selected 1984’s Supergirl. Yes, there was a Supergirl movie! Many have
I don’t want to run a halfway decent idea into the ground, but I had so much fun with the “Ten Books, A Thousand Pages” project (Part One is here, and Part Two here) that I had to do it again. So I present The Return of Ten Books, A Thousand Pages, wherein I pick