Matinee Heroes Hit The Natural
Robert Redford plays the best who ever was in the game of baseball that maybe never was, either, but we love the myth…
Reviews
WonderCon 2025: Permadeath #1
Grappling with issues of aging and the nature of reality, writer Jonathan Chance has launched an intriguing anthology comic…
WonderCon 2025: Wicked Town
1970s suburbia could be hell. For a woman the power to heal, Meadowlark Park offers a choice between St. Peter and Satanic Panic.
WonderCon 2025: Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls
The Story of Robert Smalls almost defies belief — almost. Give your time to the story of this heroic man who gave you more than you know…
Mad Cave’s LA Strong
Mad Cave Studios released a charity anthology book to benefit victims of the LA Fires — and it packs a wallop.
Review: Popeye the Slayer Man
Stay away from the contaminated spinach, but that doesn’t mean you should stay away from Popeye the Slayer Man…
Cinequest 2025: Time Travel Is Dangerous
A mockumentary revealing the secrets of the time-space continuum as discovered by two vintage shop owners with a bumper car…
Cinequest 2025: Homewrecker
If the only way to get your mom to help you buy a house is break up her marriage, it’s a good thing there’s an app for that…
Matinee Heroes on The African Queen
“Humphrey Bogart looks weird in color,” said someone at the Enchanted Geeky Room. “And boy, is this the Jungle Cruise?”
Cinequest 2025: Boutique: To Preserve and Collect
If you have a passion for collecting films on physical media, Cinequest has the documentary to make you feel good about it…
Cinequest 2025: Pilgrim
In this warm human comedy, a daughter and father confront their grief by going for a hike up the California coast.
Great Comics of 2024
Sure, it’s February but that just means you can really stop and decide if you agree with me on what was great in 2024…
Roll the Dice on “Stupid Games”
A fun evening of dinner and board games goes wrong when it turns out the new game just might be haunted… or worse.
Matinee Heroes Claws The Wolverine
Weeks after Hugh Jackman went public with his new relationship, we dive deep into his 3rd best Wolverine appearance, The Wolverine.
Revisiting The Elephant Man
In the wake of David Lynch’s passing, it’s a perfect time to revisit one of his most mainstream films and take a lesson from it.
Every Parent’s Worst Nightmare: Peter Pan
Though occasionally unfocused, this Peter Pan delivers on more than just a Neverland Nightmare… even without pixie dust.
Matinee Heroes Dives Into Pure Imagination
Fanboy Planet collides with popular podcast Matinee Heroes to talk about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Protect your snozzberries!
Notes on It’s a Wonderful Life
You might consider It’s a Wonderful Life an old chestnut — but J. Dobbs Rosa asks that you take a deeper look.
History in Four Colors
With “The House of Ideas,” playwright Mark Pracht finds the flawed men behind the legends who created the Marvel Age of Comics…
Revisiting Batman ’89 with Batman: Resurrection
Author John Jackson Miller fills in plot holes you didn’t even know were there in Tim Burton’s films — and tells a cool story.
