Leigh Lahav wonders what all the fuss was at San Diego about Tom Hiddleston showing up…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FwQD73OaEI
And if you’re wondering what all the fuss was about yourself, here’s what happened:
He has an army…
With one day down, I still feel pretty good about declaring MoCCA Arts Festival my favorite comics event thus far this season. Sure, it doesn’t have the numbers or names of New York Comic Con or San Diego’s Comic-Con International, but it also doesn’t have 100,000 people vying for seats in 1,000-chair auditoriums and competing,…
This may come as something of a shock, but tomorrow night is the last episode of The Sopranos. Now, I’m not the world’s most dedicated fan. I came late to the party, not tuning in regularly until the second season. I tend to be suspicious of critical darlings, afraid they might be uplifting and good…
Founded by Cap’n Slappy and Ol’ Chumbucket in 1996, International Talk Like A Pirate Day is celebrated today, the 19th of September here and abroad. The two mates began talking like buccaneers one day, and thanks to some promotion from Dave Barry, we can now all share in this truly amazing holiday. So, today, unlike…
I was something of an odd kid growing up so it may have made sense that I liked odd comedians. My memory was that I was the only person in our household who liked Ernie Kovacs; I must have been about 7 or 8 when his TV show was on. I thought he was funny…
The perfect trifecta of living comic book legends – Neal Adams, Joe Kubert, and Stan Lee – have come to the aid of Nazi concentration camp survivor and animator Dina Gottlieboa Babbit in her fight to retrieve her long stolen artwork from a Polish museum. According to today’s New York Times, Ms. Babbit survived two…
Thrillers today are filled with fast cuts, pounding music, poor excuses for plotting and characterization, and seem designed to do nothing more than collect your cash and deliver the same old. You usually see every twist and turn coming and are rarely surprised. In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock, at the height of his moviemaking career, unleashed…
