DC Comics is reaching new levels of spectacular and it’s doing it in a very interesting way. While you can definitely see that they’re trying to rebuild their old order of their universe, with a healthy batch of B-list solo titles selling well enough to continue, it’s not all just old school thrills. One of […]
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The 1990s were a golden era for TV family sitcoms. For the most part, the characters got their happy endings, the big questions were answered, and the audience could turn off the boob tube with a sense of satisfying closure… Then there was one beloved coming-of-age comedy bent all the rules without warning. Characters could […]
Everyone knows that sci-fi can be one of the hardest genres to adapt for the big screen since its stories tend to be more complex in general. And when that process happens, a lot of what makes the original material so good ends up getting left behind. Some just have too much information or an […]
Courtesy of The Pokemon Company Pokemon card trading has transformed massively in the last 30 years, from a relatively cheap hobby for kids to a multi-million dollar business for adult collectors happy to break the bank to get their hands on the rarest cards out there. In Heritage Auctions‘ recent sale of non-sports trading cards, […]
Hanna-Barbera is one of the most influential animation companies of all time, with it defining the 1960s and 70s and going on to find new audiences for decades to come. The studio gave birth to tons of iconic animated franchises, such as The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Johnny Quest, and the ever-popular Scooby-Doo. Many of these […]
Image Courtesy of DC Comics Eight years ago this site described The Incredibles as being like some sort of family friendly form of Watchmen, which is the kind of line you throw away in a paragraph and then never test. It is worth testing, because the overlaps are more specific than people assume. Two clarifications […]
Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2007 masterpiece No Country for Old Men is often considered to be one of the best films of the 2000s, and is remembered for its tension, violence, and drama. It is arguably the best adaptation of one of Cormac McCarthy’s works, and it is easily one of the best modern Westerns. […]
For a long time, kids’ and family movies meant fairy tales, princes and princesses, colorful visuals, and happy endings. However, cinema eventually started exploring a different kind of path with stranger stories, dark characters, darker color palettes, and an overall melancholic vibe. In other words, Hollywood started leaning more into gothic storytelling, as seen in […]
1994 was a whopping 32 years ago and when you look back on it, that was an incredible time for movies. Some of the greatest films of the decade all came out during 1994, to the point where there are people who still talk about it being the single greatest year in the history of […]
IMAGE COURTESY OF PARAMOUNT The Prime Directive is the closest thing Starfleet has to a commandment. Do not interfere with the natural development of alien civilizations, particularly ones that have not figured out warp drive yet. As Picard put it in “Symbiosis,” it “is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy, and […]