One of my favorite strange aspects of Marvel Comics is the fact that a shocking amount of their principal characters are heads of state. There are a plethora of weird, fake countries in the Marvel Universe, and there has to be people to run those countries, […]
Over the last few years there’s been a real resurgence in a very specific type of horror movie. More arty movies, full of impeccable set-design and cinematography, which largely attempt to generate horror more from mood and tension than out-right scares. These films have been largely associated […]
Hello everyone, and welcome back for a new installment of Bat Signal, my never-ending mission to read every issue of Detective Comics ever written, in random order, and with basically no context. And, as you can tell from the cover above, it’s time to talk about the continuing misadventures […]
It sure can be fascinating to look at the ebbs and flows of a director’s career. Everyone’s going to have highs and lows, periods of creative growth and relatively creatively fallow periods. And when there’s a director whose work you’ve generally liked in the past, and they find […]
Hello everyone, and welcome back for yet another installment of Ba Signal, my never-ending mission to read every singe issue of Detective Comics ever written, in random order, and with basically no context. And it looks like the Random Number Generator Gods have decided to send us to the […]
The way that the public has embraced the Avengers over the last decade, entirely due to the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has really been fascinating. Because, for decades, the Avengers weren’t exactly the biggest thing going on at Marvel. The Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and […]
There’s a very interesting, and a little depressing, fact about the two films that director Ari Aster has made. When Hereditary became such a hit he started talking about the fact that he always envisioned himself as a teller of simple, family-dramas, but found that the market just wasn’t […]
