Tag: reviews
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Ready Player One – A Movie Review
You’ll remember when I heard Steven Spielberg intended to direct this movie, I instantly ran out and read the source material. You can check out my review of the book HERE. Let me say this about Spielberg’s film adaptation — I haven’t had a visual feast like Ready Player One since The Matrix. I loved…
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Jessica Jones: Season 2 – A Netflix Review
I really enjoyed the first season of Jessica Jones. The series had such a strong concept. It definitely wasn’t a super hero show, yet it featured a character with super human strength … who didn’t necessarily want her powers. She mostly just wanted to be left alone. The series felt far more like a thriller…
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Black Panther – A Movie Review
This is NOT just another Marvel movie. Black Panther gamely partakes in the Marvel Universe while largely operating as a standalone action movie striving to deliver a societal message of great relevance. Let’s start with what I determine to be the most important aspect of Black Panther. I am a forty-one year old white male. …
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Strange Weather by Joe Hill – A Book Review
Joe Hill first won me over with his graphic novel series entitled Locke & Key. Since then, I’ve particularly enjoyed his books Horns and Heart-Shaped Box. Without a doubt, though, the short story collection called 20th Century Ghosts is my absolute favorite work by the author. Because he does shorts so well, I knew I…
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Locke & Key: Heaven and Earth by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez – A Book Review
You may remember that I did not care for the price of Locke & Key: Small World in relation to the amount of pages. (Click HERE if you’d like to revisit my angst.) Heaven and Earth, like Small World, is a collection of three very short stories involving the Locke & Key mythology. Short stories…
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Phantom Thread – A Movie Review
Surprised I’m reviewing this movie? I’ll watch anything starring Daniel Day-Lewis. It’s really that simple. My wife and I have not been together to see a movie in quite some time, so we figured Phantom Thread would be a nice “date” movie for us to enjoy. In the end, I’m not sure we “enjoyed” it,…
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Manifest Destiny: Mnemophobia & Chronophobia by Dingess and Roberts – A Book Review
Manifest Destiny is one of my favorite comic books running at the moment. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, Lewis and Clark are still exploring the American wilderness west of St. Louis, but in this alternate history, they are not merely mapping out the landscape and marking rivers, they are also analyzing any potential preternatural…
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Star Wars: Screaming Citadel – A Book Review
I’ve greatly enjoyed the various Marvel Star Wars series, but Star Wars: Yoda’s Secret War left me a little unsatisfied. I’m very happy to say that the next installment–Screaming Citadel–righted the course and returned the series to its high standard. Of course, this volume is not just comprised of the Star Wars series. It also…
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Beauty and the Beast (2017) – A Movie Review
I know we’re super late to this party, but we literally just watched this for the first time last night. I’ve been after my daughters for months to view it with me, but they were hesitant. They were concerned the Beast would be too scary, the wolves too vicious. Well, within minutes, they were completely…
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