Saturday Movie Review – “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (1990)

It has come to my attention that the upcoming CGI TMNT flick will follow the continuity of the live action films, just as Superman Returns followed the continuity established by Richard Donner in his Superman films. As such, I’ve decided to go back and rewatch (or, in the case of the third, watch for the first time) the original movies. Reviews will not be consecutive, but will be out before the March 23 release of the next film.
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Comic Review: Batman and the Mad Monk

…has he actually fallen pretty to some curse and condition that exists outside the rational world? On the other hand, there is a man in Metropolis who can actually fly and bend steel in his bare hands.
–Batman, Batman and the Mad Monk #5.

This retro-mini-series, based on a story which appeared in Detective Comics #31, 1939, finished this week. It features a young Batman taking on a menace who may or may not have supernatural powers.

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Day Break episodes appearing on ABC.com

dan_k writes, I decided to wander to ABC.com to see if there was any news of when Day Break would return to their website. In a nice banner they have Day Break advertised and 4 new episodes online. For those of you have not seen the show, it is a groundhog day story where a police detective wakes up the same morning and has to clear himself from the murder he is being framed for. As he solves a piece of the puzzle the day changes its routine.