Another Timeless Plea….
The showrunners of NBC’s Timeless are asking our help this Sunday, May 6th. I think we should give it to them.
Some olde-tymey movies I’ve had a chance to watch recently
Let’s take a look at a bunch of old movies. Old movies rule!
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ – Spoiler-Free Review
Marvel decided to throw themselves a birthday party, and they invited everybody! Avengers: Infinity War puts the cap on 10 years of Marvel movies and sets the stage for many more to come. Bringing together the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Dr. Strange, Black Panther, and the people of Wakanda to fight the greatest menace the universe has ever faced, the film does an amazing job of juggling multiple intersecting storylines and enough characters to fill a Greyhound bus.
The Unsung – Cinderella
The Unsung examines works of popular culture that are critically acclaimed but not popular, popular but not critically acclaimed, or neither. Today I’m writing about Cinderella, one of the greatest hair metal bands!
Comics You Should Own – ‘Uncanny X-Men’ #182-200
If you thought I was going to stop writing about the X-Men, well, you’ve got another thing coming. Let’s check out the latest batch!
Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #7: A Book, a Movie, a TV Show, a Concert, and a Comic Book
Cool stuff that’s crossed my path the last few weeks, in no particular order, including: the latest from Hard Case Crime, a show I despised that’s been rebooted into something I rather like, and a guy who’s not a number.
‘Battle Beyond the Stars’ – The ‘Citizen Kane’ of Schlock Sci-fi
When Star Wars exploded on movie screens in 1977, it elevated sci-fi out of the low-budget B-movie ghetto in a way that 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes had tried to do and didn’t quite achieve. While those two films had the spectacular visuals, humanist allegories, and deep thoughts about the meaning of man, they lacked the slam-bang action of a great 1940s Flash Gordon movie. Star Wars showed that people would go for big dumb fun, and the race was on for the next one. In the years that followed, many studios attempted to join the “Me Too” Chorus, with Star Trek grabbing the high-end market and the original Battlestar Galactica locking up the TV audience. The low end was filled with cheesy movies featuring clumsy alien make-up and iffy blue-screen effects. 30-odd years later, one movie stands above them all as the greatest film in the crowded “cheap Star Wars knockoff” genre: ‘Battle Beyond the Stars.’