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Preacher is the comic book series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon about the story of Jesse Custer, a preacher in the small town of Annville, Texas. The superhero part of it comes from when Custer is possessed by Genesis — the offspring of an Angel and a fallen Devil — and gains the power of “the word of God” which seems to be able to … Continue reading Preacher
Marvel movies and teevee series have become enormous in their scope raising all kinds of questions of how they all fit into a shared universe and more importantly, what order to watch everything in. Luckily others have done all of that work already — CNET, Collider, and Fandom Marvel Wiki all have put together comprehensive lists of the movies, shows and shorts in chronological order. To … Continue reading THE MARVEL MOVIE UNIVERSE
David Ehrlich’s 25 Best Films of 2017 supercut is pretty amazing: Here’s a shorter supercut by The Playlist: And a medium length one from Screen Junkies: Filmography: Continue reading 2017: Year in Movies
David Ehrlich super cutting up 2016: One from Clark Zhu And one more with more focus on sci-fi, superheroes and comedies: Continue reading 2016: Year in Movies
This unlicensed, not authorized short film from Joe Sill is really, really good. Sill is a professional director so it’s not entirely surprising that the film looks so good but he also gets pretty naturalistic performances from all three main characters (Kara, her Dad and the X-Wing Pilot). Continue reading Maybe Joe Sill Should Do a Star Wars movie?
The novel The Man in the High Castle is my favorite novel by Philip K. Dick. (Granted I haven’t read all of them yet so that could change.) I was interested when Amazon did a pilot for a teevee show based on the novel. Mostly I thought it was an interesting adaption. It did a lot of work to recreate the alternate universe. I was … Continue reading The Man in the High Castle
I hope Lev Grossman is right because The Magicians series is one of my favorite stories and I really really want to like the teevee series. The pilot is up on Youtube – the series starts on January 25th. Update February 2018: Was this a bookmark post? Let’s call it a bookmark post. I’ve watched the first two seasons of The Magicians (the third is … Continue reading The Magicians on SyFy
Two Best of Trailers Mashups: And David Erlich’s Countdown of the 25 Best Films of 2015: Continue reading 2015: Year in Movies
The artistic genius, the driving force, the hub of Oingo Boingo is unquestionably Danny Elfman. Others made key contributions to the sound of the band but there would be no oingo in the boingo with Elfman. He put out a solo album which for all intents and purposes is another Oingo Boingo album. The fact that the theater troupe transformed into the rock band and … Continue reading Oingo Boingo: Danny Elfman
The pop band Oingo Boingo started off an basically an experimental avant garde theatre troupe called the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. When I was growing up I just missed this phase of the band and in the pre-Internet era tracking down “knowledge” of all aspects of the band was not just a badge of your “fandom” of the band — it was hard. … Continue reading Oingo Boingo: The Mystic Knights Of
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