I, completely unintentionally, seem to have created a mini-marathon lately here on Cinematic Century revolving around the Cold War. I guess by this period in time, the early sixties, the paranoia and stress of the Cold War had finally percolated in the American subconscious enough that […]
Hello everyone, and welcome back to yet another installment of Bat Signal, my ongoing quest to read every single issue of Detective Comics, in random order, and with basically no context. After a rather spotty month full of accidental weeks off, this project should be back to being the […]
Howdy everyone, and welcome back to yet another installment of Bat Signal, my ongoing quest to read every issue of Detective Comics in random order and with very little context. And we have a very fun and very silly story to discuss today, folks. I mean, look at that […]
Happy Halloween everyone! Now that we’re in the most wonderful time of the year it’s time to start getting spooky. And, just like last year, I’ve decided it’s high time to get a Film Library together, and to dive back into the depth of horror. I did some […]
When a series has been around for as long as James Bond has, there’s almost certainly going to be quite a bit of influence on popular culture. There are certain big franchises that I have actually barely experienced myself, but know quite a bit about because of what’s […]
I recently came across an issue of Detective Comics in my Bat Signal series that features Batman participating in a movie based on himself. And that issue got me thinking about the fact that there are a surprising amount of comic books about superheroes being involved in movies about […]
After last week’s installment of Bat Signal where we kind of broke the rules and focused on an issue that barely had Batman in it, it’s nice to get back to form and have some crazy-ass story where Batman and Robin run around doing their best to actually […]
I was wondering when this time was going to come. I’m kind of shocked that it took so many installments of this series before I hit a Joker issue. Hell, I’ve had two different Riddler stories on here and one about an evil Box before getting to the […]