When Knott’s Berry Farm first announced the details for their new interactive dark ride, I despaired. A ride-through shooting gallery themed around steampunk sea creatures eating the remains of former Knott’s attractions sounded so distinctly unappealing to me. Comparisons made to Disney’s Toy Story Midway Mania – a stunningly lazy attraction that is nothing more than … Continue reading Attraction Review – VOYAGE TO THE IRON REEF
Looking at the Internet today, it seems people are having a hard time understanding Natasha’s arc in the new Avengers movie. You’d think something like this wouldn’t be too hard, but a surprising number of people these days seem to have no idea how to watch movies, so here’s what you might have missed while you … Continue reading On Natasha Romanoff in AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
After loudly complaining about the absurdity of having a fake holiday predicated on a bad pun, it looks like I too am posting Star Wars content on “Star Wars Day.” It’s unavoidable, it seems. Silly holiday or not, I had a lot of fun recording this podcast. A few weeks ago I attended Star Wars Celebration … Continue reading Podcast: Discussing STAR WARS Celebration (and More) with Castle to Castle
We’re still only a few years out from The Avengers, but I feel comfortable saying that it had a seismic impact on our pop culture. Characters who were once considered the “B Team” of the Marvel roster are now ubiquitous, beloved cultural icons. The most recent movie starring Captain America outgrossed movies starring Spider-Man and … Continue reading Movie Review – AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
The idea of “ranking” something as complex as art is one that is fundamentally absurd. Trying to quantify that which is unquantifiable is a fool’s errand, and it’s the reason why I never give numerical ratings or letter grades to any movies I review. Hell, I refuse to even assign star ratings to movies I … Continue reading David’s Definitive Marvel Movie Rankings
After the first season of Star Wars Rebels ended by blowing up the series’ status quo I’ve been looking forward to the next season with equal parts excitement and trepidation. I’ve explained all this at length, twice actually, and so going in to the Season Two premier tonight at Star Wars Celebration, I wasn’t sure … Continue reading STAR WARS REBELS Review – “The Siege of Lothal” (Season Two Premier)
More so than anything else, Season One of Star Wars Rebels has gotten me excited about the future of the larger Star Wars series, so I knew that even if I couldn’t attend any other days, I had to make it to day three of Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim. After waiting in two different … Continue reading STAR WARS REBELS Season Two Panel and First Look
As humans, we can’t help but approach new things with a certain degree of prejudice. It’s an immediate, unconscious reflex – when we see something new, our brains immediately evaluate it so that we have some way of understanding it, even if that understanding is flawed. This phenomenon is as true of our approach to … Continue reading How the FAST & FURIOUS Series Made Me a Better Movie Fan
When it comes to the Fast & Furious movies, responses tend to fall into one of two categories. There are the people who love this silly, sweet, lunkheaded series and embrace it with all their hearts, and then there are the joyless assholes who turn up their noses, satisfied in their smug belief that they’re … Continue reading Movie Review – FURIOUS SEVEN
Well, the third time’s the charm, I suppose. I’ve been very vocal in my disdain for Disney’s latest scheme to mine recognizable brands for new products by taking some of their most beloved animated classics and giving them live action remakes. It plays into the larger, ugly Hollywood trend of remaking old movies not because … Continue reading Movie Review – CINDERELLA
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