Cheap Game Review: Ghost Cleaner
Back in 200X, my mom was obsessed with a game. That game haunted me…not because I was so bad at it, but because my mother […]
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Danny Elfman Halloween at the Hollywood Bowl
All hail the Pumpkin King. Anyplace other than the Hollywood Bowl on Halloween weekend, that cry would be a cause for alarm. For two nights […]
Doctor Who: “The Zygon Invasion”
And just like that we’re back in a classic mode, in this case the Earth invasion stories that introduced UNIT in 1970 and continued through […]
Cheap Game Review: Albert and Otto
You will fail at Albert and Otto. But you will still find yourself strangely compelled to play more…
Doctor Who, “The Woman Who Lived”
For a moment in this season’s opening two-parter I got the ghastly fear that by the end of this year we’d have a definitive, boring […]
Cheap Game Review: Murder
I came across Murder in the Steam Store and was instantly drawn to its graphics, theme, and the premise of a tight 30-minute point-and-click adventure. My […]
Cheap Game Review: Awe
The first of an ongoing series of casual reviews of smaller independent games. Up first, a game reminiscent of Katamari Damacy now available on Steam.
Doctor Who: “The Girl Who Died”
Series 9 continues our tour of the classic series in general and the Tom Baker era in specific with a season 16/17 smorgasbord. Those two […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode 415: King Kong V. Godzilla V. Fanboys!
The Fanboys fawn over Hollywood stars, Death Note, Sex Criminals, new comics, Marvel movie shake-up, zombie heroes, lady Mummies, King Kong V. Godzilla, Crimson Peak, Flash of Two Worlds, Y the Last Man, Jessica Jones, Moon Knight, Star Wars: Battlefront, Superhero girl action figures, and so much more!
Review: ‘Crimson Peak’
Crimson Peak may be the closest we’ll get to seeing inside auteur Guillermo Del Toro’s mind. Like his inspirational home away from home Bleak House, […]
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 […]
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 […]
