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INT. TRAIN – MOVING: A Look Back at Some Great Train Movies
‘Ripley’: Believe It or Not, It’s Wicked Good
“Once Upon a Time, There Were Three More Little Girls”: Another Take at ‘Charlie’s Angels’
Boston’s Coolidge Corner Theater Reopens After Extensive Renovations
Fantasia Obscura: ‘Journey to the Far Side of the Sun’
“Find a Way” – An Interview With ‘Space Wars’ Director Garo Setian
Cartoonists Nick Bertozzi and Dean Haspiel Interview Each Other
FOG! Chats With Howard Chaykin About The Return of ‘TIME²’
Marty Krofft (1937 – 2023); Gen X’s King of Saturday Morning Television
Once Upon a Time in Gotham: FOG! Chats With Academy-Award Winning Writer John Ridley
‘American Sniper’ Arrives on 4K Ultra HD May 14
‘The First Slam Dunk’, Acclaimed Animated Sports Thriller Makes Domestic Debut on Blu-ray June 25
Trey Parker and Matt Stone Celebrate Anniversaries With 4K ‘South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut’ and ‘Team American: World Police’
‘American Fiction’ Arrives on Blu-ray on June 18
COMIC BOOK NEWS: DC Comics, Image, Dark Horse, BOOM!, Dynamite, and More!
‘American Sniper’ Arrives on 4K Ultra HD May 14
‘The First Slam Dunk’, Acclaimed Animated Sports Thriller Makes Domestic Debut on Blu-ray June 25
Trey Parker and Matt Stone Celebrate Anniversaries With 4K ‘South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut’ and ‘Team American: World Police’
‘American Fiction’ Arrives on Blu-ray on June 18
COMIC BOOK NEWS: DC Comics, Image, Dark Horse, BOOM!, Dynamite, and More!
FOG! Exclusive! Check Out These Images From ‘Rebel Moon: Wolf: Ex Nihilo: Cosmology & Technology’
Sneak Peek: ‘Marvel Studios’ Thor: The Art of The Movie’
TwoMorrows’ Reveals ‘It Rose From The Tomb’
FOG! Exclusive! ‘Happy Days: The Official Cookbook’ Serves Up Some Very Cool Recipes
FOG! Exclusive! First Look at ‘John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando: Rise of the Sludge God #1′ From Dark Horse Comics!
Wandering Planet Toys Announces New ‘The Prisoner’ Retro Action Figures
Craig Yoe Launches Autobiographical Comic, ‘Woman & Man’ on Kickstarter!
The Folio Society: ‘DC: Batman’ (review)
Welcome to the 2023 Forces of Geek Holiday Gift Guide! Part One: Home / Office / Life
First Look: ‘Marvel Studios’ The Infinity Saga: Iron Man: The Art of the Movie’
Welcome to the 2023 Forces of Geek Holiday Gift Guide! Part One: Home / Office / Life
The Forces of Geek 2023 Back to School Gift Guide
‘Superman: The Movie’ Web3 Experience: Multimedia Living Movie Experience from WBHE and Eluvio Available Today!
How Pop Culture Is Shaping Our Digital Lives
Welcome To The Forces of Geek 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
‘Prince and Purple Rain: 40 Years’ Celebrates Prince’s Most Iconic Album and Film
‘New Kids on the Block 40th Anniversary Celebration’ – New Book Relives NKOTB’s Rise to Superstardom
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Announces ‘The Color Purple’
‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ 4K UHD (review)
FOG! Chats With The King of Comics Kayfabe, Ed Piskor, About the ‘Hip Hop Family Tree Omnibus’
Audible Announces New Audio Original ‘Slayers: A Buffyverse Story’; Premieres October 12
Jack Quaid to star in Mike Mignola, Thomas Sniegoski’s ‘Grim Death & The Electrocuted Criminal’ Audio Podcast
Listen! ‘You Already Know’ Podcast Episode 1: “Akoins”
Podcasts Celebrating Television’s Past
‘Cartoon Logic’ Podcast Launches
‘Ripley’: Believe It or Not, It’s Wicked Good
‘Doom Patrol: The Fourth and Final Season’ Comes to DVD & Blu-ray on April 9th
‘Andor’ S1, ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’, ‘Moon Knight’ S1 and ‘The Falcon and The Winter Soldier’ S1 Coming to 4K UHD and Blu-ray For The First Time!
‘Shōgun’: Clavell’s Epic is Updated For Our Time… Maybe For All Time (television review)
‘Three Little Birds’ (TV Mini-Series review)
Blue Man Group: New Acts, Same Hue (theater review)
‘Tis An A Faire To Remember!: FOG!’s Benn and Liz Robbins Revisit Carvershire
‘Cirque du Solei Boston Presents ‘Twas The Night Before …(review)
Star Wars Celebration 2022: A New Hope
Hayao Miyazaki: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Exhibition Catalog (review)
Boston Cinegeeks! We’ve Got Passes for ‘Sting’
Boston Geeks! We’ve Got Passes To See The First Two Episodes of ‘Fallout’
Boston! We’ve Got Passes To ‘Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom’ in 3D!
Boston Cinegeeks! We’ve Got Passes For ‘The Creator’ Starring John David Washington
Boston Cinegeeks! We’ve Got Passes For ‘Expend4ables’ Starring Stallone, Statham, Dolph and Fiddy
I had been tweaking a substack piece about my misreading of popular culture, and my struggle to finally understand it, before I left the...
(With no apologies whatsoever to that fucking Norman Podhoretz.) I’ve told the story frequently, if not incessantly, of how I was introduced to comic...