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If there is one thing that people love, it’s a haunted house. We might be split on zombies, vampires, werewolves and the like, but...
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DC Comics and Marvel Comics are charging into the digital frontier with a bold new phase of the historic DC/Marvel crossover initiative that began...
I saw the revival of RAGTIME a few weeks back. This was the second revival. I’d seen the original, and liked it, although to...
“One Battle After Another”, the latest film from acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, debuts Digitally at home today, November 14. From Warner Bros. Pictures...
If there is one thing that people love, it’s a haunted house. We might be split on zombies, vampires, werewolves and the like, but...
I have been party of late to talk about the decline of the American sense of humor. This situation is of course wide open...
Great Moments in Advice from Highly-Paid Consultants: * Get rid of Nerve’s writers! (Site implodes) * Get rid of the AV Club’s writers! (Site...
The 1619 PROJECT apparently confirms for the right that the New York Times is a tool of the left. The recent editorial about free...
It can be challenging to get your business ventures off the ground as an entrepreneur. However, if you want to succeed in your industry,...
So, things are changing. When Forces of Geek launched thirteen years ago, the timing couldn’t have been more fortuitous. The site was on the...
…THE VIRTUE OF AGONY. The death of the actor William Hurt, besides the loss of such an extraordinarily sly and nuanced talent, and separate,...
As always, it was impossible to see everything at the 2022 edition of the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, TX — especially...
…AND TOXIC AVENGERS I was first inoculated by what became a lifelong obsession, and not incidentally a lifelong career, by comic books, in the...
At first glance HBO’s Succession and Paramount’s Yellowstone couldn’t be more different. Succession, set in the super elite world of corporate America’s one percent,...
It’s 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn’t care. She’s an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn’t have the...
Alex Segura is a very busy man. A husband and father he spends his days working as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing...
Nate Cosby believes that great comics come from the collaboration of great creators. As a writer/editor/packager/producer, Cosby has previously worked on such properties as...
In the new graphic novel, Batman: The Imposter, Bruce Wayne’s mission as the Batman has only been underway for a year or so, but...
WITLESS PROTECTION, TOO There are two off story moments in BYE, BYE BRAVERMAN, Sidney Lumet’s 1968 comedy of grief, moments that made no ripple...
Not too long ago, I posted a screed covering my ongoing disdain and distaste for the culture of overpraise, where so many minds are...
New York Times bestselling author, Mariko Tamaki has not only conquered the Young Adult arena, but has found success in both the independent comics...
In 2020, the cancellation of South by Southwest in Austin, Texas was an early indication that COVID-19 was just about to bring the entire...
Gemstones have been part of stories and myths throughout human history. Certain gemstones have been valued, while others were discovered only in recent times....
Wildcards (potentially list-worthy movies as yet unseen by moi): Antlers, Pig, Last Night in Soho, Coda, The Sparks Brothers, West Side Story, The Tragedy...
William Friedkin’s Academy-Award-winning The French Connection gave the cinematic world what is widely considered the greatest car chase of all time. No, Bullitt (1968)...
As I started to write this, I realized that for those of you who know me and my work as a comic book man,...
Did Dorothy Gale really dream Oz? If so, then she probably deserves a MacArthur Genius Grant for it. MGM’s adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s...
* Wildcards (potentially list-worthy 2021 shows as yet unseen by moi): Yellowjackets, Squid Game, Dopesick, Station Eleven, Hacks, We Are Lady Parts, For All...