Joaquin Phoenix gives a masterful performance in a film that often struggles to live up to it while still managing to create a world worthy of a Batman. While I have no real desire to discuss Joker, director Todd Phillips’ take on the DC Comics supervillain, as an exercise into how virtue signaling can sometimes be a square peg forced… Read more →
by Shimbo It’s been 38 years since one of the greatest Bond films, 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me, made its way into theaters and the hearts of Spy Movie fans everywhere. The Bond of today, as well as the Spy genre as a whole, is far more serious, brooding and well-removed from the swinging whimsy of the 60’s and… Read more →
by Shimbo For some time now, the upcoming reboot of Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four has been an issue of great debate. From the mysterious storyline to the eclectic casting choices, which included Michael B. Jordan and Kate Mara as a now interracial brother/sister combo, something that your humble host wrote about at length in an article last year for Bleeding… Read more →
by Shimbo You and I will never see space. Chances are, our children won’t see it either. For us, tales of space exploration, real exploration, will only ever be fables we tell our grandchildren before they tuck away for the night. It’s this longing for space, for the unknown, that drove (and continues to drive) science fiction for decades. From The… Read more →
by Shimbo I just want to be able to stop crying long enough to write this, because I don’t want to wait to do this. I need to be able to get this out. It’s been about an hour or so since the world learned that Robin Williams passed away at the age of 63. That he died of an… Read more →
