Round 2 has three weeks left. You can vote for this week’s entries here and check out the standings to date, including four of last week’s statistical upsets, in the brackets.
Category Archives: Movies
The Wolverine (2013): Silver Screen Superheroes #34
The latest episode of Silver Screen Superheroes is available here and discusses the 2013 film, The Wolverine as we continue our X-Men coverage.
Greatest Fantasy Film Tournament – Week 29, Round 2
Greatest Fantasy Film Tournament, Week 28, Round 2
I apologize for the lateness of this update. I was away from my normal computer for much of the weekend, and failed to make appropriate preparations. The next round of voting is here, and commentary on last week’s results will be omitted as I haven’t even looked at them yet, so I can focus on getting this update out. The updates will appear on the brackets as usual momentarily.
Summer Weekend Review: I Walked With A Zombie
Just what is a zombie?
A ghost. The living dead. It’s also a drink.
One of those rare, pre-George A. Romero zombie films, I Walked With A Zombie (1943) depicts something like the original myth, and has been referenced in such diverse literature as Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice and Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. Although flawed (and baffling to fans of the contemporary zombie) it transcends its B-picture status, and holds up better than most other pre-1968 zombie films.
And so ends summer 2015.
Greatest Fantasy Film Tournament: Week 27, Round 2
The next round of voting takes place here. There were three statistical upsets last week, as marked in bold blue text in these brackets. Since two of those are going head to head, they have the potential to throw things off of expectations for some time to come.
Summer Weekend Review: “Equinox” (1967, 1970)
In case you haven’t heard, September 23, 2015 is the latest date when a subset of religious fundamentalists, conspiracy theorists, and Youtube buffoons insist absolutely, positively, the world will end! You know, just like it did in December 2012 and January 2000 and all those other prophetic dates.
Spoiler: there’s no reason to believe the world will end that day. However, September 23 will mark the autumnal equinox, and so, for this Summer Weekend Review, we’re discussing you Equinox. Made by college students for $6500.00 in 1967, it became a cult hit, and its creators were given time and money to film new sequences, stretching the movie to feature-length and gaining it wider distribution. Rereleased in 1970, the film influenced such people as George Lucas, Richard O’Brien, and Sam Raimi, received praise from Ray Harryhausen, and features cameos by Fritz Leiber and Forrest J. Ackerman.
Greatest Fantasy Film Tournament: Week 26, Round 2
Trailer Park Tuesday – August 18, 2015
It’s been awhile so here’s a bit of a roundup, including a first look at a new take on a classic Science Fiction tale.