AIRSHIP 27 OPENS A NEW HANGAR!
“I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies.” —Craig Ferguson We’re not the only ones obsessed with—ahem—[[[The Walking Dead]]]. Everybody seems to be in on it. Here’s a very, very, short list of zombie movies: [[[28 Days]]] [[[28 Days Later]]] [[[Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies]]] [[[Night of the Living Dead]]] [[[The Evil…
Paramount Pictures’ Centennial Collection chugs along, mining the 1950s and Audrey Hepburn again with the release on Tuesday of Funny Face. The musical, with Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson, unlike the earlier offerings in the series, has not aged well despite the loving restoration of the visuals. Pop culture in the 1950s certainly centered on…
Reviewing any adaptation requires two trains of thought: is it a good representation of the source material, and is it a good story standing on its own. Frankly, I don’t play video games or watch much animation these days, so in watching the 4K Ultra HD release of Sony’s 2005 Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children,…
Alice in Sunderland Bryan Talbot Dark Horse Books, 2007, $29.95 Even for an artist as hard to pin down as Talbot, [[[Alice in Sunderland]]] is odd and unique: it’s one-half a local history of the town in northern England where Talbot lives now and one-half a popular history of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll)…
Victor is a geeky teenager, mildly bullied by the jockish types at his high school – but also smart and skilled enough to be rebuilding old game consoles to make a serious side income. He’s obsessed with Patricia (Patty), who is gorgeous and rich and blonde, in the way of a million boys before him,…
Jedi Academy #2: Return of the Padawan By Jeffrey Brown Scholastic, 176 Pages, $12.99 Jeffrey Brown is an incredibly entertaining storyteller and I fell in love with his Darth Vader and Son when I it was pointed out to me in a museum gift shop. Apparently, Scholastic and Lucasfilm love him, too, because they have…