Category: Media
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Book Review – Star Wars: A New Dawn
Are you watching the new Star Wars cartoon, Rebels? Do you want to know more about Kanan? Well, it takes quite a while to get interesting, but A New Dawn is your jam. There’s insight into Kanan (then under his real name) and his training as a Padawan before Order 66, the first meeting with…
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Movie Review – The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
I FINALLY got to see a show at the North Park, and I was thrilled that it was this one, Studio Ghibli’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. Isao Takahata’s latest is a beautiful and heart-rending re-telling of the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. One day, a bamboo cutter sees a glowing stalk of bamboo in…
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The Hobbit Movies – Thank God THAT’S Over
I was never your biggest Tolkien fan – I had read the Lord of the Rings once as a kid, but the movies got me back in. There seemed to be a genuine desire to stay true to the source material, and most of the changes made you could at least make a case for it…
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Comic Book Review – Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever
The City on the Edge of Forever is often described as the best episode of the original series of Star Trek, and it’s hard to argue against that. The script, written by Sci-Fi legend Harlan Ellison, won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1968, and also the Writer’s Guild of America award of…
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Book Review: Star Wars – Tarkin
Remember how strange it was in Ocean’s Twelve when it was revealed that Danny and the boys had won because they had outsmarted the bad guys off-screen? Yeah, pretty much what you have here. We begin Tarkin, by James Luceno, with an attack on a station Moff Tarkin is familiar with, so Palpatine (now the…
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State of the Game: Marvel Heroes
Note: I looked at Marvel Heroes before, but the game has changed even more since then so I’m starting fresh in this article. I tried Marvel Heroes when it first came out (it didn’t have the ‘2015’ in the name then) but only played about 20 or 30 hours before setting it aside. Loved the…
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Movie Review – Big Hero 6
Took the kids to see this at an advanced screening, and had a blast. It is technically a Marvel movie, though the book is not exactly well-known. Consider this in the vein of How to Train Your Dragon, in that a lot of the same parts are there, but plenty was changed to work better…
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The Legend of Korra Book 3 and 4
The above picture shows a happy time, with Korra and Asami bonding like sisters (or depending on how you ‘ship’, something more). It’s pretty much the last happy moment Korra will have in her life. I might be exaggerating but not by much. Book 4 starts tomorrow so if you aren’t caught up, here are…
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New Fall TV Thoughts
I’ve watched some of the new shows this fall, and want to get my thoughts out of my head. Rather than try to do a post for every one, I’m collecting them here. New shows: The Flash – Yes, I was weak and downloaded the leaked pilot. It is great. Very few of the ‘pilot…
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The “For Boys” Problem
This is my daughter, Mattie (and the back of my other daughter, Eva). The girls have taken on my love of comics, mostly due to the show Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. M is wearing her new Captain America hoodie which may be her new favorite possession. Upon seeing it in the…
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Book Review – Half a King, Joe Abercrombie
Joe Abercrombie’s Half a King is my first book of his, and it’s great, if not ground-breaking. It follows young Prince Yarvi, who has a withered arm, content to step away from the throne and dive into a life of books and study. Not strong enough to fight, he hones his mind, but everything changes…
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Movie Review – Guardians of the Galaxy
I saw an early screening of Guardians of the Galaxy Thursday night, and let me tell you, I had a blast! I may have only read the actual Guardians comic that was the biggest influence on this after the movie was announced, but I’ve quickly fallen in love with these a-holes. Of course, I did…