Joe Kelly is a prolific comic book writer, with credits on the extended mythos of Deadpool, Daredevil, Superman, and others. But he also penned the graphic novels, Four Eyes and I Kill Giants. which connect the everyday world of our expectations with fantasy-infused realities to create colorful, inventive worlds where our worst fears take on…
Consider this my defense of?Justice League, the movie that kids have been dreaming about since Gardner Fox invented the team-up in March 1960, or at least since my generation watched the Wonder Twins and their better-equipped posse in??Super Friends?from 1973 to 1986. We’ve longed for a film that would take the skills and personalities Grant…
SPOILERS FROM THE FILM WILL BE DISCUSSED AND DISSECTED. ?DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU HAVE SEEN THE FILM My former Grambling State University Theatre Department classmate turned prolific R&B artist Erykah Badu has a song on one of her albums called ?Master Teacher.? ?The hook goes, ?What if there were no N*****s, only Master Teachers?…
From 2001 to 2004, Simon Baker (The Mentalist) starred in The Guardian, as a corporate lawyer convicted of drug abuse who finds himself assigned to the Legal Services office of Pittsburgh. He’s cutthroat and thorough as a businessman, but when he finds himself face-to-face with minors who can’t speak for themselves, he discovers a new…
R.J. Palacio’s novel,?Wonder, captivated young people and their parents, but Stephen Chbosky’s cinematic adaptation was a sensation that caused theaters to add showings as screenings sold out. Centered around the story of Auggie (Jacob Tremblay), a young man with?mandibulofacial dysostosis, it shone a spotlight on the way that we treat people who don’t look, sound,…
not sure if you watch ABC’s?The Middle; if not, you might consider it it’s just a family sitcom, but a pretty good one, especially if you watch with your kids, which is how we do it and how it’s intended, i’d say it’s in its 9th (and final) season, so i’ve been thinking a bit…
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight?takes Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola’s story of the same name, unofficially the first DC Elseworlds story printed, and transforms it into an R-rated animated feature film that pits Batman against Jack the Ripper. With Bruce Greenwood as Batman/Bruce Wayne and Jennifer Carpenter as Selina Kyle, the film dynamically spins a story…
In an opening scene that is shocking for both its lack of humanity and its restraint, Rosalie Quaid (Rosalind Pike) witnesses the murder of her husband and children at the hands of a Comanche raiding party in 1892. A few days later, Quaid is discovered by Captain Joe Blocker (Christian Bale), who is unwillingly escorting…
In George Clooney’s?Suburbicon, things are broken. The focus of the media attention in this 1959 paradise of picket fences and?Stepford Wives?values is the arrival of the first African-American family, the Mayers, who quietly move in across from Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon) and his family. But the audience’s attention is drawn to a terse, charged home…
P.T. Barnum watched his father toil in poverty, the family suffering in the shadows of the rich Hallett family. With love for Charity Hallett, and a desire to show the world a vision of joy that they hadn’t seen before, Barnum works hard to embrace a new life for his family. With starts and stops,…
