Hardly anyone in power can make up their mind about anything these days. Release the movie? Delay the movie? Start school? Delay school? Anybody else experiencing news whiplash? Kayne West is running for president? I somehow did not have that on my 2020 Bingo card. Only five more months to get through y’all. Thanks for…
His Dark Materials at ComicCon@Home: Trust Issues and a Hot Priest
Are you ready to go back to the Magisterium? The HBO/BBC adaptation of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials returns for a second season later this year. On the His Dark Materials ComicCon@Home panel, cast members Dafne Keen (Lyra), Ruth Wilson (Mrs. Coulter), Ariyon Bakare (Lord Boreal), Amir Wilson (Will Parry), Andrew Scott (John Parry), and Lin-Manuel…
WEBCOMIC REVIEW: Tell Me A Story Does Not Tell Any New Stories
Tell Me A Story, a web series written and produced by Kevin Williamson that first aired on CBS All-Access in 2018, arrives on The CW on July 28th. The show advertises itself as a dark and twisted modernization of classic fairytales, with the first season focusing on Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and…
For a Valiant Cinematic Universe to Succeed, They Need a Little Faith (Herbert)
The superhero tide isn’t ebbing any time soon. Year after year, we see new adaptations of comic book properties arrive on every screen we have access to. From familiar names to relative unknowns, viewers are being bombarded by some new hyper-powered being or other. Valiant entered the game this March with their live-action adaptation of…
Last Week’s Episode: And the News Start Coming and It Don’t Stop Coming
It’s 2020. It’s July and there is still a global pandemic. Not that Hollywood that bothered anymore. After a couple of months of COVID-impacted news we’re back to a lot of renewals, announcements, and plenty of things to be both overjoyed and annoyed about. So without further ado please get comfortable and enjoy this entry…
Last Week’s Episode: Lot of News
We are still in a global pandemic and watershed moment in dealing with racism in both explicit and implicit forms, but entertainment news is still moving! So here are the updates from this week.
Last Week’s Episode: July, July!
June has ended, but what’s changed? It’s brutally hot outside (at least in my hemisphere) but I don’t feel great about safely retreating to movie theatres. Even Fox News has finally masks are finally good to wear during a pandemic. Activists are still in the streets protesting (and being brutalized) for racial justice and an…
Last Week’s Episode: What is a Week Anyway??
As the world continues faces a long overdue reckoning with uprisings around the globe against anti-Black racism and white supremacy, the entertainment world is trying to return to some semblance of normal. Of course, the big question is what will that look like? And in the face of current conversations, protests, and civil unrest why…
The Artemis Fowl Movie Is What No One Wanted and More
This review contains spoilers for Artemis Fowl (2020). Fifteen years ago, if I was told that an Artemis Fowl movie adaptation was definitely going to happen, I would have been incredibly excited. But after seeing what I just saw, in this holy year of 2020, I’m not sure I would have wanted this.
Last Week’s Episode: Black Lives Matter, and the Reckoning Is Here
This week, we saw the dam break in all parts of entertainment and media (using the widest possible definition of the phrase) with Black, Indigenous, and other people of color speaking out about racism, both micro and macro, they’ve experienced in the workplace. There are a few news stories to cover before getting into it,…
Last Week’s Episode: All Fake Cops Should Donate
As Black Lives Matter protests in honor of George Floyd and other victims of police brutality continue across the country, corporations and celebrities scrambled to find the appropriate tone to respond on their own social media accounts, to varying success. And while people started pulling receipts (I’ll admit I wasn’t expecting the Metropolitan Opera to…
The Best (or Worst?) Villains Scooby-Doo Has to Offer
If you follow me on any social media, you know that I consider myself to be a connoisseur of Scooby-Doo. In anticipation for the Scoob! movie, I felt the need to bust out my Scooby-Doo DVD collection and rewatch all of them. In doing so, I realized most of the villains in Scooby-Doo share a…
