On February 27th, 1998, Dark City was given a wide release in theaters. While the movie won praise from critics for its visual flair, it tended to get much poorer marks for human elements. None of the actors was acclaimed for giving a strong performance, the story was widely panned and the film was not much of a financial success, earning a meager $27M worldwide. I was thinking about this…
SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for Black Panther follows. The last Marvel Cinematic Universe movie before the looming Infinity War is out, so how does it stack up? Read on to hear my thoughts on King T’Challa’s first solo movie. Black Panther is an interesting movie in that it isn’t quite an origin story like other MCU movies. T’Challa had already appeared in Captain America: Civil War as a fully developed superhero. In that sense,…
The Black Panther of comics, real identity T’Challa, king of Wakanda, debuted in 1966 and was interesting and popular enough to make a few more guest appearances before getting his own feature work in “Jungle Action.” Earlier issues of Jungle Action starred such notable comic standouts as “Lorna, Queen of the Jungle” and “Tharn, the Magnificent.” Jungle Action became T’Challa’s own after his debut issue there, however, and that was…
Over the past few months, there have been a few terms being thrown around more and more often over social media that cause me to cringe a little bit every time I read them. I cringe because I worry that their overuse is contributing in some small way to the poisoning of our political discourse as well as making it hard to relate to and understand each other. Here are…
Last year I took some time to review the advertisements in the Super Bowl. We saw that after a particularly divisive election many of the advertisements took on a particularly political tone. Would the same happen this year in the wake of #metoo? Or would advertisers tone down the social commentary and aim more for brand building and light humor? Weirdly enough I mentioned 2004’s “wardrobe malfunction” in my introduction…