Allen Christian reviews Fantastic Four #3… “Truly awful.” Throughout my fandom of the Fantastic Four, having read the majority of the comics in existence with that name or logo somewhere on the cover, I have been disappointed numerous times. Good ideas squandered? Check. Those are legion. Wildly off-base characterization? I see you, Matt Fraction. Ideas […]
Comic Book Review – Marvel 2-in-One – The Thing and Mr. Fantastic #11
Allen Christian reviews Marvel 2-in-One – The Thing and Mr. Fantastic #11… Not a week before the release of Marvel Two-in-One #11, Marvel announced the cancellation of the book. So here we find writer Chip Zdarsky resigned to tying up loose ends. It’s unclear if that was the initial intention of this particular issue, or […]
Movie Review – Glass Jaw (2018)
Glass Jaw, 2018. Directed by Jeff Celentano. Starring Lee Kholafai, Korrina Rico, Jamie Camil, Boosie, Brandon Sklenar, Reynaldo Gallegos, Vernon Wells, and Mark Rolston. SYNOPSIS: A champion boxer goes to prison and loses everything for a crime he didn’t truly commit. Once out, he fights to earn everything back. Glass Jaw is a boxing movie. […]
Movie Review – The Book of Birdie (2017)
The Book of Birdie, 2017. Directed by Elizabeth E. Schuch Starring Ilirida Memedovski, Suzan Crowley, Kymberly Mellen, Kitty Hall, and Kathryn Browning. SYNOPSIS: A young girl with an obsession for blood is taken to a convent after some unmentioned trauma. The Book of Birdie is legitimately a film that is hard to categorize. Is it […]
Movie Review – That Good Night (2017)
That Good Night, 2017. Directed by Eric Styles. Starring John Hurt, Sofia Helin, Max Brown, Erin Richards, and Charles Dance. SYNOPSIS: An aging screenwriter learns that he is terminally ill and seeks to put his life in order before bringing it to an end at a time of his own choosing. Sir John Hurt was […]
Fractured Visions Film Festival Review – Children of the Fall (2017)
Children of the Fall, 2017. Directed by Eitan Gafny. Starring Noa Maiman, Aki Avni, Yafit Shalev, Tamara Klingon, Danny Leshman, and Michael Ironside. SYNOPSIS: A young woman looking to escape her past flees to Israel in 1973. On the eve of Yom Kippur, she and other young immigrants encounter more hostility than they could have […]
Comic Book Review – Marvel Two in One: The Thing and the Human Torch #10
Allen Christian reviews Marvel Two in One: The Thing and the Human Torch #10… If you’ve been following Chip Zdarsky’s brilliant run thus far on Marvel 2-in-One, you’re likely asking the same question as everyone else: “Why wasn’t he given Fantastic Four?” The short answer to that is that Dan Slott really wanted it and […]
An Expanding Universe: The MCU spills onto the small screen with Disney’s streaming service
Allen Christian on the expansion of the MCU on Disney’s upcoming streaming service… More than a year ago at this point, Disney announced the coming of its own streaming service. Little is known about the service apart from some vague ideas of planned programming based on current Disney properties (including a host of baffling film […]
Comic Book Review – Fantastic Four #2
Allen Christian reviews Fantastic Four #2… “Here We Make Our Stand” When last we left the Future Foundation, the Reed Richards helmed think-tank featuring the brightest young minds on Earth, they were rebuilding the imploded multiverse with the combined powers of Franklin Richards and the Molecule Man. And that’s exactly where they are when we […]
Comic Book Review – Fantastic Four #1
Allen Christian reviews Fantastic Four #1… In early 2015, leading into Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars, we saw the dissolution of the Fantastic Four and the cancellation of their eponymous monthly comic book. The assumption is that Marvel seized this opportunity to cease production of the book due to ongoing conflict with 20th Century Fox, the […]
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