Hello and welcome to the first installment of Film Library, a series of articles devoted to films based on novels. I’ll look at the film and the novel, then decide whether or not the film was an accurate adaptation, and answer the age old questions: Was the book […]
Over the last few years, I’ve been getting into Westerns. I know I watched a lot of the classic ones with my dad or grandpa back when I was a kid, but for most of my life, Westerns were an antiquated genre that weren’t exactly holding up. But […]
Well, it’s Independence Day, and because we’re super cool, my wife and I are celebrating by watching the two Captain America movies. The Chris Evans ones, I suggested watching the crazy 70’s ones with Reb Brown, but no dice. We’re both huge fans on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, […]
Back in 2010 a comic came out called Batman/Superman #75, and one of the features of the book was this short little homage to Calvin and Hobbes featured DC’s two biggest profile villains. It’s pretty fantastic. It also really gets into how different the two characters, and how they interact […]
So last night I was flipping through Netflix, trying to find something to watch, and I came across a documentary from last year about Robert Altman. Simply called Altman, the documentary looked at the director’s life and influences, going through his filmography with interviews of family members, colleagues, […]
So, the reason that I felt like talking about crazy 70’s Marvel characters yesterday was because I had 70’s exploitation films on the mind. I always have stupid Marvel facts rattling around there; it usually takes something special to get me thinking about exploitation. Last night I went […]
I love comic books. Have ever since I was a little kid. I still get excited every Wednesday for New Comic Day, and am like a kid in a candy store every time I’m in my local comic book store. And while I definitely love the indie publishers […]
