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Recovering with Stab-tastic Results
It’s official. I’m back at work! Testing negative after my week and a half of covid and I feel like I’m part of the world again. It feels great to talk to friends face to face (with masks) and actually get out of the house. Thankfully my
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What I'm Excited about in 2022
Big studios are not shy about their slate of releases. It’s common for them to start marketing two, sometimes three, years in advance to get the hype machine rolling. However, streaming doesn’t work like that. Companies like Netflix are arguably as big as their theatrical competition, but when
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My First Substack Post
Hello. We are currently two full weeks into the new year. That’s astounding. Never mind the looming depression that we’ll be entering the third year of this pandemic very soon, I want to congratulate all of you. Let’s focus on what makes us happy in the world
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AppleTV+ First Impressions
We are approaching a cultural shift in entertainment consumption where nigh every studio and network will be launching their own streaming service, and one of those companies releasing their own service recently is non other than Apple. Yes, the phone and computer company put some money into the entertainment biz
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The Cost of Disney Buying Out Fox
For the past few years there has been a common joke going around the film community that Disney owns so much IP that they might as well own everything. They are the biggest corporation, studio, presence in pop culture and has gobbled up a startling amount of properties to house
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5 Comics that Studios Can Adapt Next
With the Marvel Cinematic Universe celebrating their 11th successful year on a high, Warner Bros and DC finding success in solo stories such as Aquaman, Shazam, and recently Joker, and Sony starting up their Valiant universe with Bloodshot, it's safe to say that the field of comic book
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10 Docs to Get Into Documentaries
One aspect about my current self that I would have laughed at in High School if you had told me is how my love of documentaries has grown over my college and adult years. What I once thought was a snoozefest turned out to be a gripping genre with a
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The Flash Season 5 review
Five seasons is a healthy accomplishment in this era of television, and The CWs DC TV universe has no shortage of hits, but after an iffy third season and an abysmal fourth season it's understandable if The Flash would be thinking of hanging up the cowl after this.
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Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor review
After three seasons and a 50th anniversary special it is time to say goodbye to Matt Smith as the Doctor. When an undecipherable message emminates from a mysterious planet the races of the universe all gather around waiting for something inevitable. Held back by the Papal Mainframe a futuristic, technological,
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The Danger of Disney's Live Action Remakes
At the turn of the century Disney has had their eyes on remaking their animated classics as live action pieces, and in the last decade they've gone full force into this initiative. To varying quality the initiative seems to be raking in promising results such as Alice in
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My 10 Favorite TV Shows
Everybody loves lists, so why not make one that is nigh impossible for any two people to share the same? TV is wonderful because nobody can get to everything. In film you've at least heard of the ones you haven't seen, but in television there are