Talking fast and being whip-smart got you noticed at the turn of the century. Aaron Sorkin set the pace with The West Wing, but it met its match on October 5, 2000, when the WB invited us to visit Stars Hollow, CT (population 9,973), and stay a spell. The Gilmore Girls was unlike any dramas…
New York, NY— May 6, 2026 — Sixty years ago, Marvel Comics hit the jackpot. In Amazing Spider-Man #42, Mary Jane Watson made her full debut, brought to life by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr., and her luck has never run out! From Peter Parker’s true love to a fashion model, a superhero, and…
Universal City, California, May 6, 2026 – One of the most celebrated sitcoms in television history returns in its most complete and ultimate form ever with THE OFFICE: THE COMPLETE SERIES – SUPERFAN EXTENDED EPISODES, available on Digital platforms and Blu-ray™ beginning July 14, 2026, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Spanning 194 expanded episodes, this…
Veteran stuntman and action filmmaker Eric Jacobus (God of War, Man Who Feels No Pain) delivers a tech-agnostic, philosophically grounded roadmap for zero-budget filmmakers to achieve high-impact action by mastering the “human universals” of physiology, psychology, and human relationships. Badass on a Budget is a masterclass for the “Zero-Budget Action Filmmaker” (ZBAF) by veteran action…
New York, NY— May 7, 2026 — In a world without a God of Thunder, lightning still strikes! This August, writer Al Ewing and artist Pasqual Ferry celebrate 800 issues of THOR with a special anniversary issue that pits Sigurd Jarlson, the Mortal Thor, up against The Serpent’s most heinous test yet. With the fate…
Comics do at least half of their storytelling through images – but sometimes I wonder if some creators think their images can communicate deep, complex concepts that are clear and crisp in their own minds, even when they don’t embody those ideas in words. Max Huffman’s graphic novel Dogtangle brings up those thoughts: it’s obviously…
Olive: Lost in Inner SpaceBy Vero Cazot and Lucy Mazel256 pages/Abrams ComicArts/$38 Autism is a challenge to depict in comic form; so much depends on the artist’s strength, since it’s all about nuance. Take Olive, for example. In Paris, she arrives at school as a 17-year-old, forced to adapt to a world alien to her….
Osamu Tezuka made a lot of comics. According to Wikipedia , over 700 works, comprising more than 150,000 pages. I doubt even half of that has been translated into English. So the view any North American reader has of his work – unless that reader both is fluent in Japanese and has access to a…
SYNOPSISWriter/Director Sam Raimi’s relentless, gore-spattered debut is a landmark in horror cinema, a no-holds-barred onslaught of gruesome terror and nightmarish effects, which has earned its rightful status as alegendary cult classic. Five college students travel to a remote cabin in the woods and unwittingly unleash a monstrous evil force hellbent on their total destruction. DISC…
Where does courage come from? Is it inborn? Can it be taught? These are some of the questions explored in the 1937 film Captains Courageous, based on the Rudyard Kipling novel. You start with Harvey (Freddie Bartholomew), the prototypical spoiled little rich boy who clearly needs to be taught how to behave, and those harsh…
An unnamed man walks into a neighborhood diner and asks for volunteers to help him save the world. But, it can’t be just anyone; it has to be a specific combination of people at that moment, 10:10 p.m. Once assembled, they need to go a few blocks over to insist that a nine-year-old boy install…
Most of the Roy Thomas-scripted adaptations of Michael Moorcock’s Elric novels came out as individual comics issues – five or eight or so for each novel – and were eventually collected into book form. But The Dreaming City was instead a single graphic novel from Marvel in 1982 – maybe because this is the original…
