So, what are you doing on January 16, 2009?
According to comingsoon.net, chances are you’ll be thinking about paying ten bucks a head to see Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Mendes, and Scarlett Johansson in the big-screen version of The Spirit, as written and directed by Frank Miller. This assumes the shoot goes swell; they begin in October.
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NEWS RELEASE Contact: Ed Catto O: 917.595.4107 Ed.catto@bonfireagency.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New PBS Documentary to Preview at New York Comic Con “A Never-Ending Battle” Celebrates Comics’ Superheroes and their Creators New York, NY (October 3, 2011) “A Never-Ending Battle,” the first episode of a new film from the creative team responsible for the award-winning PBS…
Oh, it’s been a good week. Two of my (diametrically-opposed) favorite comedies are coming out on remastered special edition DVDs this coming Tuesday (one which was embraced by all religions while the other was roundly condemned by all religions) and I could hardly be happier. The operative word here is “hardly,” because, for while…
I don’t recall how I first stumbled across the ABC soap opera Dark Shadows back in the 1960s. Normally, back then, I‘d come home from school and watch ‘50s reruns on WNEW or WPIX but somehow, I found the Dan Curtis series and fell for it thanks to the supernatural overtones. It was was heady…
I don’t particularly like movies that are graphic depictions of historical atrocities. I don’t like movies about the Holocaust or particularly gritty war movies or, as in this case, slavery. I don’t have a problem learning about troubling historical periods through nonfiction, but there’s something that feels exploitative about going over human misery so exhaustively….
Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files: Storm Front Vol. 1: The Gathering Storm Adaptation by Mark Powers; Illustrated by Ardian Syaf Del Rey, June 2009, $22.95 It’s never a good sign when anything gets named “[[[The Gathering Storm]]]” – that’s possibly the most generic title in a world filled with blandness and non-specificity. I suppose it’s…
Challengers Comics is holding a kid friendly event this Valentine’s Day to celebrate the release of the Tiny Titans "Welcome to the Treehouse" collection by renowned artist Art Baltazar. The event will run from 12:00-3:00 on February 14, 2009 and will include free Tiny Titan themed sweets, valentines, signings by the artist and anyone who…
