Beware Of Geek

Conan of Cimmeria was created in December of 1932 by pulp writer Robert E. Howard.  He rose to some prominence in 1966 when L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter edited a series of paperbacks containing edited versions of the original stories (and some of their own material) with covers by the great Frank

This is a tough film to review.  Not because it's a particularly bad film.  It isn't.It's because it's neither bad nor good.  It just sort of exists, in a nebulous realm of average film-making.It's hard to point at a single detail and say "This is mediocre."  The plot hits a lot of the classic weste

I'll admit it.  Even though the various trailers & clips showed promise, part of me was always leery of the idea of a Thundercats revamp.  There were plenty of ways that things could have gone wrong.They didn't.  Tonight's premiere episode (well, technically 2 eps) showed that the new Thundercats se

To my recollection, Captain America has been portrayed in live action by three actors before this film.The first version, a 1940's serial starring Dick Purcell, was a truly hideous adaptation, with a different backstory, motivation, and identity.  He didn't even have a shield.The second, a pair of 1

 Super 8 was not on The List of movies I planned to watch this much.  I'm not a big fan of horror movies, and even less of a fan of the school of "hint, not show" film-making.  So, I'd originally planned  to give it a miss.This was a mistake.Super 8 is a love letter to a certain kind of adventure mo

Green Lantern, as a film, had several strikes going against it, before it even hit the movie screens.First, GL is not one of the better known characters in the public eye, at least among those who don't watch cartoons  (and probably half of those think he's supposed to be black).  He isn't a Superma

Or… "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Maggy".For make no mistake, this film belongs to Professor X & Magneto.  And really, that's at the heart of First Class's problems, It's not with the plot, really, which while a bit thin, is perfectly workable.  And the effects are quite good, particularly when Magne

Saw Thor today (I wanted to see it earlier, but was felled by a nasty bout of bronchitis), and I wanted to get my thoughts down while they are fresh.One thing I will NOT do this time around is review it as an adaptation.  Because, while there were several shout-outs to (and a welcome cameo of) Walte