Author: Patrick D Gaertner

  • 4. Jurassic Park

      We’re going to be shifting gears a bit this week on the Bucket List, because it’s time to talk about a low-budget little film from indie filmmaker Steven Spielberg known as Jurassic Park. Maybe you’ve heard of it? Perhaps because it’s one of the highest-grossing and most beloved films of all time. This is one of…

  • Issue 70 – “The Man Who Could Read Minds”

      Hi there everyone, and welcome back for another thrilling installment of Bat Signal, my never-ending mission to read every issue of Detective Comics that has ever been published, in random order, and with basically no context. We’re taking a trip back into the Golden Age this week folks, into the earlier days of the Dark Knight,…

  • Children of Time and Humanity’s Flaw

      The world is a very scary place at the moment, sitting by while everything just seems to be crumbling around us. The institutions and functions of society that have been broken for quite some time have been exposed pretty clearly, and chaos just seem to be spreading at an ever rapid pace. So, it…

  • Bloodshot and Comic Book Shame

      Well folks, we’re really starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel. Every day it’s announced that more films are getting pushed back, not that it really matters since all movie theaters are closed until further notice. I’m not going to lie, as someone who typically finds themselves in a movie theater just about…

  • 3. The Man Who Fell to Earth

      Well, after starting things off with a screwball comedy and moving onto a solemn samurai flick, it looks like this Bucket List project is next taking a trip to the world of ponderous seventies sci-fi movies. And, like last week, we’re talking about a movie that I’m seeing for the first time. Although, it’s…

  • Issue 280 – “The Menace of the Atomic Man”

      Hello everyone and welcome back for yet another installment of Bat Signal, my never-ending quest to read every issue of Detective Comics that has ever been published, in random order, and with basically no context. And, as you can probably tell from looking at that cover, we’re in for some classic sci-fi goofiness this week. Sadly,…

  • That Time Spider-Man Saved the Cast of Saturday Night Live from a Vengeful Samurai

      A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of sharing a ridiculous story with you all that involved the Avengers getting to go on the Late Show with David Letterman. It was an incredibly goofy story, and it opened up the idea of various Marvel superheroes taking part in various late-night comedy shows, since most of…

  • S31 E17 – Highway to Well

      The world is in complete chaos, nothing makes sense any more, up is down, left is right, and I actually found myself ironically enjoying a contemporary episode of the Simpsons this week. That’s right folks, it finally happened this Season. A good episode. Things start off with Marge frantically dropping Maggie off at some…

  • The Hunt and Controversy

      We’re currently in the midst of the one of the strangest times for the world in recent memory. And, that has had pretty huge effects on the movie industry. Basically every major release for the next few months have been rescheduled, films being made currently are being shut down, and it seems like studios…

  • 2. Kumonosu-jō (Throne of Blood)

      Welcome back for our second installment of Bucket List, my new ongoing project to cross off as many films from the 1,001 Movies To Watch Before You Die lists as possible. And, we’re following up last week’s inaugural installment with just about as different a movie as possible. Last week we discussed Sullivan’s Travels, a comedy that I…