The latest round of voting is here. The list of eliminations to date follows.
Category Archives: Movies
Summer Weekend Review: “One Million BC” (1940)
It has been awhile since we’ve run weekend reviews of older genre movies and, with summer upon us, we’d like to once more supplement reviews and discussions of newer fare with a few seasonally-appropriate oldies. SF Beach Movies are rare, but the next few weeks will see reviews of the closest thing, the fantastic Caveman films from the cinematic past1.
(And they are topical just now)
Movie Review: Inside Out
After taking 2014 off, Pixar returns with two films this year (a first for the company). The first of which is a look inside the head of an eleven-year-old girl, Inside Out.
Their second film of 2015 is The Good Dinosaur and debuts in November.
Greatest Fantasy Film Tournament: Round One, Week Seventeen
The voting continues here. As usual, the complete eliminations list follows.
Check out the first Webisodes of “Justice League: Gods and Monsters”
A new series from Bruce Timm, the guy that brought us the Batman, Superman, and Justice League cartoons from the 90’s and early 2000’s. This is an extremely dark take on the classic trio of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. While not rated in the usual film sense, I would put these in the PG-13 category (if not higher in some situations).
Each episode runs about six minutes. When the series wraps in July, a Direct-to-DVD movie will be released.
X-Men 3: The Last Stand: Silver Screen Superheroes Podcast #31
The latest episode of the podcast is available here, and covers the adaptation of the Dark Phoenix Saga and Gifted. I’m sorry it’s a few hours late.
Greatest Fantasy Film Tournament: Week Sixteen, Round One
The latest round of voting is available here. The complete list of eliminations to date (listed in order of release year) is available below.
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Holy Mary! Virgin births have been observed among an endangered species of sawfish. The sea has always churned up things that sound either mythic or science-fictional, as this video taken off Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands reminds us:
Humans, of course, remain the most curious of beasts. Below, we have recent vid of Disneyland’s unofficial “Bats” day, Montreal’s real-life superheroes, and Fanime 2015’s cosplayers:
Greatest Fantasy Film Tournament: Round One, Week Fourteen
The latest round of voting takes place here. Eliminations are listed below.
Orphan Black Review: “Community of Dreadful Fear and Hate”
Orphan Black keeps fresh by, paradoxically, drawing on Restoration comedy, spaghetti westerns, and mob movies. Characters who have been sidelined head front and center, as consequences from last week remain unrevealed and Rachel cracks a code.