Support Your Local Comics Shop
Let’s be frank. Your local comics shop, wherever it may be, is in trouble right now. In the best of times, most of them operate […]
Articles by Derek McCaw
Superman: Red Son Animates Well
There’s a moment early on in the DC Universe adaptation of Superman: Red Son when black and white footage of Superman swoops down out of the […]
Flash Gordon Comes To Riverdale
I’m really hoping this means the Archies will cover Queen’s classic Flash Gordon theme. Archie Comics and King Features need to drop that track now! […]
Cinequest 2020: Butter
Kids can be cruel, often because they’re just thoughtless. And in the internet age, as a now disgraced comedian once observed, empathy can be harder […]
Cinequest 2020: Audio Guide
A young woman, a hopeful artist herself, takes an audio tour through a gallery. When she absent-mindedly tips the device toward a docent, the audio […]
Review: M.O.M. Mothers Of Monsters
In the 1950s, the novel, play, and movie The Bad Seed shocked audiences with the notion that children could be evil — and that it […]
Shout! Factory Gets The Greatest American Hero
Shout! Factory has been the virtual warehouse for a corner of almost everyone’s nostalgia, whether it be John Carpenter classics or great ’50s comedy. And […]
Cinequest 2020: Fried Barry
It’s a shame Cinequest doesn’t have a Midnight Madness showcase anymore — but in this age of streaming and timeshifting, maybe that’s a quaint concept. […]
UK Commercial Casts Derek Mears As Robocop
One can dream that Robocop would come back on TV or movies, and really, Derek Mears (Swamp Thing, Friday the 13th) would make a danged good […]
The Final Black Widow Trailer
Clearly, a dark past is the harshest taskmaster. With this final trailer for Black Widow, we also get our clearest looks at Taskmaster, who has […]
Cinequest 2020: Nina Of The Woods
Charlie Griak’s Nina of the Woods accomplishes many interesting things, but two in particular stand out. As co-writer/co-producer/director, it really is a Charlie Griak film. And […]
Cinequest 2020 Will Become SummerCinequest
The good news is that Cinequest will continue in 2020. The bad news is that it has to suspend activities after Sunday, looking to return […]
Cinequest 2020 John Pinette: You Go Now
I have a rule, and your mileage may vary with it. When I want to find the comedians whose work will really stand the test […]
Roll The 20-Sided Die On Onward
Once there was magic in the world. No matter which world you’re talking about, its folk – fae or not – decided that technology was […]
Cinequest 2020: Survival Skills
So you’ve joined the police force of Middletown, U.S.A. It’s a fairly quiet place, but there are a few things you’re going to need to […]
Cinequest 2020: A Bad Place
If you think you know where A Bad Place will take you, you may be right but you may be wrong. Three women find themselves in a […]
Cinequest 2020: Before The Fire
Do you have time to confront the past when it looks like there’s no future? Writer/actor Jenna Lyng Adams finds an intriguing way into the […]
Marvel Goes Ultra In Chicago!
If the light on Ultraman’s chest should stop blinking… but who are we kidding? It’s been over 50 years, and Ultraman is still going strong. […]
Cinequest 2020: The Mimic
1 in 25 people is a sociopath. That’s not a random factoid to be funny; it’s a citation from Harvard psychologist Dr. Martha Stout, in […]
The Idiot’s Lantern: 13th Doctor Screen Tests
The rejected celebrity screen test format may be well-used by Saturday Night Live, but let’s face it: when the Idiot’s Lantern sketch group performs, they’re […]
