It is amazing to me that someone who worships Will Eisner (the genius behind the original Spirit comics) like director Frank Miller could do such an amazingly awful job of adapting The Spirit to film.  It fails on two levels: as a film and as an adaptation.
As a film, this is easily the worst thing [...]

[Read more →]

The story with Valkyrie, the latest Tom Cruise vehicle, isn’t so much about the film itself as with the scheduling of the film. Valkyrie is set to open on Christmas. Really, what could be more heartwarming a movie to watch at Christmas than a movie about killing Hitler? Perhaps a movie about trying to kill Hitler, failing, and [...]

[Read more →]

You know Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has landed himself in a bit o’ hot water.  Charges of lining his pockets and all that.  You know they’ve got him swearing on the wire tap. 
 Ever watch Deadwood, an HBO western featuring all manner of corruption and excellence in creative swearing.  By all accounts, Blago wasn’t as skilled [...]

[Read more →]

Punisher: War Zone is an enjoyable mess of a movie, suffering from being perhaps a bit too faithful to the comic without realizing the comic has separate incarnations.
Garth Ennis is the main Punisher writer of the last decade or so and was sited by War Zone director Lexi Alexander as a major influence on the [...]

[Read more →]

Marvel’s circulation audit is out for the first half of 2008, which means we have real numbers and we have the ever-elusive subscription numbers. Of particular interest is the full break-down for May 2008, which corresponds to things hitting the stand in March 2008, which is to say, a month before Secret Invasion hit.
Of course the [...]

[Read more →]

As Stephon Marbury’s tenure with the New York Knicks turn into a post-modern retelling of “The Last Days of Pompeii,” it might be time to look back at what Starbury used to be before his ego and mouth got in the way and how he’s cleverly dodged the hall of fame.
Did you know that Marbury [...]

[Read more →]