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January 10, 2025
This holiday break, two of the movies I watched were Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well from 1960 and The Founder from John Lee Hancock. Both of these movies tell stories of ambition in the corporate world—for The Bad Sleep Read more…
November 28, 2024
I’m a Tolkien fan. I used to be a Tolkien fanatic, but now I think I’m settled down into a fan. There’s a difference. It wouldn’t exactly be wrong to write that I wasn’t excited about Rings of Power, the Read more…
August 16, 2019
I am a big fan of the Guillermo del Toro Hellboy movies. I own both of them. I would have been quite happy to see a third, but was not angry or upset when I heard someone else was taking Read more…
August 9, 2019
Venom was a movie I thought I’d be interested in seeing because of Tom Hardy’s role in it, but then never really bothered to seek it out. It sought me out, and I can understand, now, my minor but not Read more…
June 19, 2019
I finally got a chance to see Avengers: Endgame along with my family. I went in with some spoilers, but that never really bothers me. I can read the same book or see the same movie over and over again, Read more…
April 2, 2019
This was first posted on Patreon. Today the family went to see Captain Marvel. I’m lucky in that my wife and kids are almost as excited about seeing the latest Marvel or Star Wars movie in the theatre as I Read more…
February 18, 2018
I’ve been writing lots of game stuff, so haven’t been focused on my blog. If you are one of the few that pops around here regularly, my apologies. You can always join me at my Patreon! But that’s not the Read more…
December 14, 2017
The last post basically outlined the introductory episode/issue to my version of Iron Fist. In it, Wu met Danny Rand, a martial arts practioner but not the Iron Fist – think of him as Wu’s Colleen Wing from the Netflix Read more…
December 11, 2017
So in the last post, I discussed how I would have approached the Netflix Iron Fist. There’s no way this can ever amount to anything, but it was a fun thought experiment, so I thought I’d share it. In the Read more…
December 7, 2017
In a discussion about the Marvel series on Netflix, someone asked – since I was very disappointed with Iron Fist – what would I have done. That person obviously had no idea what they were getting into, and while we Read more…