Doctor Who: “Before the Flood”
It’s all about paradoxes this season so far. In the opening two-parter, we got the Grandfather Paradox: if you go back in time and kill […]
Reviews
Review: Supermansion
Well played, Zeb Wells and Matt Senreich. Within two episodes, their new stop motion puppet series Supermansion manages to skewer the Justice League, S.H.I.E.L.D., The […]
Doctor Who: The Witch’s Familiar
I said last week that there was only one time travel story to be told about Hitler: do you go back and kill him before […]
D23: Marty Sklar’s One Little Spark!
“It’s okay to make believe, but it’s not okay to fake believe.” Those words capture just a slice of the message that Imagineering giant Marty […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode #413: Diamond in the Rough!
The fanboys interview Diamond in the Rough independent Film Festival’s Rob Campbell, discuss 48 Hour Film Festival winners Jason Salazar and Drew Campbell’s Stygian Outpost preview […]
Doctor Who: The Magician’s Apprentice
Reviewed by Drew Simchik That Moffat! Who else would be so clever as to start off a new season with an RTD finale? The first […]
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Guy Ritchie’s [amazon text=The Man from U.N.C.L.E.&asin=B00ZS21J6E] shows great respect for recreating the cool cold war spy environment that was the signature of the 60’s […]
Fantastic Four
A good superhero movie is like a puzzle. Fantastic Four has all the pieces (and probably a few extra), but 20th Century Fox and director […]
Comic-Con 2015: ‘The Expanse’
The Syfy network produces an epic TV series from an epic book series. Believe it!
Comic-Con 2015: ‘The Expanse’
It took a lot of persistent prodding by a good friend to get me to read James S.A. Corey’s [amazon text=Leviathan Wakes&asin=0316129089].* I resisted because […]
Review: ‘Archie’ #1
He doesn’t have superpowers. He might fight for the right, but “fighting” is really a stretch. More like he stands up for it when the […]
DC Comics: Piecing Together Convergence
We’re at the half-way point this week, where DC’s latest epic crossover event pits various versions of heroes and villains from different continuities against each […]
Marvel’s Star Wars #1
Over 1,000,000 copies is nothing to sneeze at. Something about the media blitz of Star Wars returning/relaunching at Marvel clearly got to the average consumer, […]
Review: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
Remember being eight years old and the movie you just saw was the best movie you’d ever seen? Guardians of the Galaxy is like that, […]
Review: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’
If the trailers made The Amazing Spider-Man 2 look ridiculous to you, chances are watching the whole thing will not change that opinion. Let’s face […]
Review: ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’
Want to know the truth about a culture? You look to its myths and legends. For us, those myths, writ large, come in the form […]
Can You Face ‘The Resistance’?
An action movie improvised right in front of you by an ensemble of talented actors who also know how to throw their weight around the stage.
Doctor Who: ‘The Day of the Doctor’
Doctor Who anniversary specials have a narrow line to walk. The line is operatic on one side, marking out some grand story about Time Lord […]
Review: ‘Thor: The Dark World’
Long ago in the Nine Realms, the Dark Elves sought to destroy reality as we know it, barely suppressed in time by the Asgardians. And […]
Review: ‘Iron Man 3’
Tony Stark can’t sleep. Ever since New York, everything’s different. The cool exec with the heart of steel opened it up. He knows who he […]
