Author Archives: JD DeLuzio

Indiana Jones Gets May 2008 Release Date

chad writes, Thursday, May 22, 2008 is the official release date for Indiana Jones IV. This, despite the fact they haven’t started filming and don’t even have a complete script. Also, there is some question as to whether or not Sean Connery will be reprising his role as Jones’ father. And, to top it all off, Harrison Ford has threatened to pull out of the project because he may not be allowed to use a real whip.

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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Saturday Review: The Last Vampyre

The Grenada adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes stories, filmed in the 1980s and early 1990s, earned a reputation for fidelity to the source. This film may surprise some viewers, then. Loosely based on a minor Holmes adventure, “The Case of the Sussex Vampire,” it significantly alters and expands the original story, with nods to Stoker and Universal and Hammer. Early on, viewers receive clues that, this time, Holmes may be facing an unearthly opponent.

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