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Talking About The Batman: Fanboy Planet Vidcast

March 21, 2022 Derek McCaw 0

Of course we’re talking about the Batman! Actually, we did it on March 8th, but it’s still the #1 movie at the box office (did […]

Studio 666 Mixes Rock With John Carpenter

February 24, 2022 Derek McCaw 0

“When heaven’s in the music, Hell is in control.” So Richard O’Brien once wrote, and Dave Grohl carries that duality forward with Studio 666. Rock […]

Cyrano Misses The Mark

February 23, 2022 Derek McCaw 0

I’ll grant you, my objections are pedantic. Until viewing Joe Wright and Erica Schmidt’s musical Cyrano, I was only vaguely aware of how closely I held […]

Movie Review: Marry Me

February 14, 2022 Derek McCaw 0

When adapting the Keenspot graphic novel Marry Me to film, director Kat Coiro could have gone two ways with casting. Use an up and comer and […]

Comics Review: Marry Me

February 11, 2022 Derek McCaw 0

Have you seen the new J-Lo romcom Marry Me? Nothing in the marketing lets you know that it’s based on a graphic novel. Originally published by […]

Movie Review: Those Who Walk Away

February 9, 2022 Derek McCaw 0

The evil that men do lives after them. So the Bard once said, and what people didn’t understand is that it’s way too easy to […]

Comics Review: Primos #1

February 7, 2022 Derek McCaw 0

At first glance, Primos has all the rhythms of a classic Marvel book from the late 70s or early 80s. A teen-aged skate rat from Boyle […]

L.A. Comic Con: Two Stories By Joshua Kemble

January 31, 2022 Derek McCaw 0

Sometimes, the job of an artist is to illuminate the struggles of our times. To put their hand on our shoulder and say, “I know.” […]

The Comics Version Of Peacemaker Disturbs The Peace

January 28, 2022 Derek McCaw 0

In comics, even in hindsight, Peacemaker doesn’t seem the most …family friendly… of characters. He loves peace so much he’s willing to kill for it. […]

An Appreciation Of Bat Out Of Hell

January 21, 2022 Derek McCaw 0

I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday… As the story goes, a young actor and a young composer/lyricist met after the […]

Movie Review: Belle

January 20, 2022 Derek McCaw 0

Belle may be a tale old as time, but it’s told through the lens of tomorrow’s technology. Writer/director Mamoru Hosoda makes no secret of the […]

Lockdown Rewind: Bloodshot

January 13, 2022 Derek McCaw 0

The character Bloodshot has lived many lives. Infused with nanites that heal everything but his memory, he’s the perfect weapon. Until, of course, he goes […]

The Legend Of La Llorona Needs A Little Less

January 7, 2022 Derek McCaw 0

When playing in the sandbox of a famous ghost story, a filmmaking team has to put their own spin on it. If anything trips up […]

Year-end “Best of” lists serve one purpose for me: call out something that I didn’t hear about, or meant to read/watch and forgot. To say the comics on this list are “the best,” maybe they are. Really, they’re ones I read that stuck with me. There may be others this year that you enjoyed that I missed, and I want to hear about them. I won’t objectively call them “the best;” subjectively, they’re just great.