Ah, it’s Oscar time again! I know I’ll be glued to my seat, whilst falling asleep in it at the same time! Look for all the geeky movies to win the usual geeky (technical) awards, most of which won’t be given out on the air. Better to get your geek on reading our ComicMix columns…
I hope you’ve already read Matt Raub’s advance review of Justice League: The New Frontier — DC Universe’s Animated Original Movie — which was posted days ago. Naturally, since it’s coming out in stores this coming Tuesday, it’s time, keeping with the comic source material, for my variant review. Matt critiqued the film itself. I,…
The WGA writers are back at work, thank goodness, so there’s finally some good stuff to watch this President’s Day weekend (how can one have a "day weekend" anyway?). Meanwhile, our ComicMix columnists have been typing away as usual; here’s what we’ve done for you this past week: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #53: Today,…
Note to producers: either retire words like “phenomenal” and “unbelievable” from your vocabularies or think thrice before allowing yourself to be filmed for DVD special features. Rest assured it will only help your cause. The aforementioned suggestion comes as a result of watching two long overdue DVD offerings back to back. If you watch…
There’s a new Marshall in town, and he’s laid down the law against punny headers. So let’s just get down to business and rustle up this past week’s worth of ComicMix columns: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #52: "…this is Captain American calling…" Dennis O’Neil – The Four-Color Answer #52: William James and the Superbowl…
Unarguably, one of the things DVD has way over VHS is its compression. Far more discs fit in any given space than cassettes – allowing producers to create compact yet extensive homages to filmmakers or genres. A welcome addition to this group arrives this week in the form of the Stanley Kramer Film Collection….
Snackies at hand? Ready to cheer on the best ads in between the quarters? Me, I’m psyched to see me some Tom Petty at halftime. Before they take the field for Superbowl XLIIayeaye!!one!, why not warm up with this past week’s ComicMix columns?: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #51: Sex Dennis O’Neil – The Four-Color…
This week I watched two DVDs that considered the same turbulent period, but from two wildly divergent vantage points. First, the divider. Reviewers were almost totally at odds over Across the Universe, director Julie Taymor’s “homage” to The Beatles. Homage is in quotation marks because half the critics thought its liberties and excesses…
There’s something in the air, and unfortunately your author has caught it. But it’s well worth rising from one’s sickbed to bring you the weekly roundup of ComicMix columnists! Isn’t it?: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #50: I Am Not Running For President Dennis O’Neil – The Four-Color Answer #50: Morality and such Me –…
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…
Wow, new ComicMix contributors Shira Gregory and Rick Marshall have really done a yeoman’s (yeo-people’s?) job filling in our news section, haven’t they? Even I can’t keep up! In fact, they’ve posted so fast and furiously that many of our regular columnists have fallen off the "More News" window, so it’s a good thing I…
What a relief! Fellow audio-blogging ComicMixer Mike Raub put it in perspective for me as soon the credits ended on Cloverfield: “What ever happened to science?” he asked. “Remember the good old days when movie characters would actually think about why something was happening rather than immediately whip out the heavy artillery?” Well, Mike, my…
