This was a commission. If you want a review like this, click here. There’s a great misconception about Archie. The image is the comics are hopelessly dated,… Read more “Review: Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again (1990)”
Category: The Film Room Blog
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The 10 Best Lonely Island Songs by Austin Shinn
Comedy music is one of the hardest things there is. As has been noted by other reviewers, you have to be extremely good at two things that… Read more “The 10 Best Lonely Island Songs by Austin Shinn”
Review: Guardians (2017)
Two requests in 24 hours! This one for my good bud Paul Andolina! This is a different film so I’m gonna hit this one differently. This was… Read more “Review: Guardians (2017)”
Request: Flash: The Return of Barry Allen by Mark Waid and Greg LaRocque
This was a commission. Warning: full spoilers Barry Allen was better dead. This isn’t something I’m going to argue. He got the perfect ending in Crisis on… Read more “Request: Flash: The Return of Barry Allen by Mark Waid and Greg LaRocque”
The Tie-Ins That Bind: Daredevil: Predator’s Smile by Christopher Golden
Daredevil kicks ass. A highly moral in code yet personally decidedly morally tarnished hero. So Catholic he’d make a dream Kevin Smith hero (and did in a… Read more “The Tie-Ins That Bind: Daredevil: Predator’s Smile by Christopher Golden”
The Tie-ins That Bind: Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
This was a commission by Will Binns. And so we’re back to the YA tie-in novel realm. This is where we visited the early days of the… Read more “The Tie-ins That Bind: Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo”
Night of the Demons 2: A Review in Character
“We got one last good, weird blast of b-horror in theaters with Night of the Demons 2, which hit Houston after Leprechaun 2 hit the nation. That’s… Read more “Night of the Demons 2: A Review in Character”
My Favorite Episodes of MST3K
Mystery Science Theater 3000 is so vital to my taste in comedy it seems impossible to think there was a time I didn’t watch it regularly. That… Read more “My Favorite Episodes of MST3K”
The Tie-Ins That Bind: X-Men: X-Tinction Agenda by Vicki Kamida
I went back and forth on what to write about this week. I considered the Paul Dini/Pat Cadigan Mad Love novelization but while that’s a great book,… Read more “The Tie-Ins That Bind: X-Men: X-Tinction Agenda by Vicki Kamida”
The Tie-Ins That Bind: The Incredible Hulk: What Savage Beast by Peter David
Time to discuss an oddity as tie-ins go. We tend to draw a very clear line between stories “counting” and “not counting” with tie-ins. Obviously, if it… Read more “The Tie-Ins That Bind: The Incredible Hulk: What Savage Beast by Peter David”
