Category: Review
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Movie Review – Sing
Illumination’s latest movie, Sing, is a song and dance you’ve seen before. Â Heck, the Muppets have done it twice at least. Â Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey as a Koala) grew up loving the theater, and eventually (with financial help from his blue-collar dad) he buys a theater. Â Buster’s not very good at running it, though, so…
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Movie Review – Doctor Strange
I saw the Scott Derrickson-directed Doctor Strange over the weekend, and enjoyed it a lot. Â It’s not going to unseat any of my favorite MCU movies (currently Iron Man, Winter Soldier, Guardians and Civil War) but it was a fun if familiar tale. Â I’ll get all the non-spoiler notes out of the way first: Â the…
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Book Review – Black Widow: Forever Red
Before you start this book, know that while it’s got Black Widow in the name, it’s both about her, and not exactly about her. Â If it might bother you to discover the story is told mostly through the viewpoint of a teenaged girl that has an…interesting connection to Natasha, as some other reviewers seem to,…
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Book Review – Rebel Genius by Michael Dante DiMartino
Rebel Genius is a new book from Michael Dante DiMartino (of Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra fame), and if you are a fan of either of those shows, you’ll find a lot to love here. Â In fact, if there’s one negative to the book it’s that it hems a bit closely both…
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Movie Review – Kubo and the Two Strings
We saw Kubo and the Two Strings a while ago, but I’m just gathering my thoughts on it now. Â It’s quite possibly my favorite Laika movie, and that’s saying something as Coraline gets a ton of play, especially this time of year. Â Kubo deals with complex feelings with mind-numbingly gorgeous visuals. Â It’s the sort of…
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New Amazon Pilot: The Tick
The Tick is both blessed and cursed by TV. Â Blessed because very few comics from such an obscure source would get not one, not two, but three tries at a series. Â Cursed, because the first two attempts were both on Fox and had plenty of network interference/mismanagment. Â The third try may just be the charm,…
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Movie Review – Storks
We saw Storks at a preview screening, and it had some really cute parts and fun actiony bits. Â However, I think they just had no idea how to start the movie to get to those bits and just decided to use the “I’m giving you the company as long as you don’t screw up this…
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Comic Book Review – The Ultimates: Omniversal Volume 1
Start with the Impossible Creative Team: Writer: Â Al Ewing Art: Â Kenneth Rocafort Colors: Â Dan Brown Letters: Â Joe Sabino The Ultimates had my attention from the start, by putting together a team starring heroes I love – Captain Marvel, Ms. America, Black Panther, and Monica Rambeau – and oh yeah, GALACTUS is on the cover. Â Add…
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Game Thoughts – No Man’s Sky
I’m not calling this a review as I’m not that far in, but I already have a lot of complicated thoughts about No Man’s Sky.  Here they are in no particular order: Is it any good?  I don’t…know?  Seriously, I can see how some people can tune into it – there is something zen about scooting around…
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Movie Review – Pete’s Dragon (2016)
Full disclosure: Â if I saw the original movie as a kid, I don’t remember it. Â This version of Pete’s Dragon starts out in the most Disney manner ever, with Pete (Oakes Fegley) losing his parents but being rescued by Elliott. Â Pete lives in the forest for several years with Elliott, until he’s found by Grace…
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Movie Review – Star Trek Beyond
I’ve got a bit of a love/hate relationship with the “Kelvin-verse” Star Trek movies. Â I really like the cast, and have come to grips with the fact that, since it’s not a TV show, the movies need to shade a bit more to the action side of things than the more cerebral Trek episodes. Â Still,…
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Movie Review – Ghostbusters (2016)
I’m happy to report that I have seen the new Ghostbusters movie and did not, in fact, experience the death of my childhood.  We all enjoyed it quite a bit.  Sure, there’s a few bits that don’t land but that’s true of the original Ghostbusters if you can manage to view it without the rose-tinted glasses…