The least interesting thing about superheroes are pretty much always the superheroes. Superhero comics are endlessly juvenile power fantasies, which makes their continued patronage by old men (like myself) all the more embarrassing. But what people like Alan Moore realized years ago was that the most interesting things about superheroes are what they say about … Continue reading
The least interesting thing about superheroes are pretty much always the superheroes. Superhero comics are endlessly juvenile power fantasies, which makes their continued patronage by old men (like myself) all the more embarrassing. But what people like Alan Moore realized years ago was that the most interesting things about superheroes are what they say about … Continue reading
Michael Crichton, don’t read this! Paramount’s Specialty Division has picked up the Al Gore global warming film, An Inconvenient Truth. The film got a standing O from an audience of liberals and commies at Sundance, all of whom are far too willing to swallow the anti-business line that somehow pollution is bad. What rubes! An … Continue reading
Avi Arad has revealed that he doesn’t expect to see Captain America hitting the silver screen until 2009, giving the new Marvel Studios only three years to crank out sequels before the world ends in 2012 (ask the Mayans). The really bad news is that if the film has Cap hunting Osama Bin Laden, that … Continue reading
New York City was snowed in on Sunday – two feet of snow blanketed the town. That didn’t stop an intrepid band of journalists from doing the 16 Blocks junket in the heart of midtown. Of course some of those journalists had been flown in from Los Angeles, and were trapped in the city by … Continue reading
New York City was snowed in on Sunday – two feet of snow blanketed the town. That didn’t stop an intrepid band of journalists from doing the 16 Blocks junket in the heart of midtown. Of course some of those journalists had been flown in from Los Angeles, and were trapped in the city by … Continue reading
Bryan Singer showed up at WonderCon this weekend to start the selling of his upcoming Superman Returns, and he took the opportunity to tease us about his remake of Logan’s Run, which got bumped when he accepted the Superman gig. "We’re finishing the script," Singer told Sci-Fi Wire. "And … I’m going back to a … Continue reading
This week Fox Searchlight FINALLY opens Night Watch in America. It was supposed to open last year, and they showed it to us at the Tribeca Film Festival last April. I don’t know what happened, but the film seemed to get lost in the shuffle. You’ve probably heard a lot about the movie, since the … Continue reading
Garth Franklin of Dark Horizons said something interesting to me last week when he was visiting New York City: “Playing gay is the new playing crippled,” when it comes to awards. I think that Garth might well be right, but does that mean a remake of Bowfinger would have Kit looking to play Buck the … Continue reading
Neil Young thought he was going to die, so he recorded an album. It’s what you do when you’re an artist, try to get those last thoughts out. The album he recorded was called Prairie Wind, and it’s one of his quiet records (Neil Young is notable for the manic-depressive aspect of his music, in … Continue reading