It starts as an interest, then you're a fan, now you're a geek.
Before I begin this, I’d like to first insist that I enjoyed this remake of Poltergeist.
All of the actors do well with what they are given. The direction is interesting, bold and well paced. The writing, at the very least, wasn’t as terrible as it could have been. However, as I’ve been putting my thoughts together over the last few days, I continue to find more and more problems with the film.
I love toys. Even more specifically, I love action figures. I always have. As a kid, I had more action figures than you can imagine. As a twenty-seven-year-old man I have...well...more action figures than you can imagine. As a kid, action figures were a way to let my creative young mind act out all kinds of amazing fantasies, from epic space battles to monsters attacking knights in a castle (remember, the Fisher Price Great Adventures line? The one that had pirates and knights and cowboys and monsters and stuff? No? Just me? Oh man, those were great toys!
With filming underway on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sequel, we've gotten news that both Bebop and now Rocksteady have been cast. Playing Bebop is Gary Anthony Williams and today we learned that Rocksteady will be played by WWE Superstar Sheamus.
Over the past weekend, we attended Wizard World Comic Con in St. Louis. I was able to sit in on a few panels with Billy Boyd, George Romero, Michael Rooker and Jason Mewes, and Hayley Atwell and Lyndsy Fonseca. I was also lucky enough to talk with Michael Rooker and B.J. Britt one on one in an interview that you can hear in this week's Podcast. All the photos were taken by my great friend and photographer Liz Domkoski
The network upfronts have been going on this week and it was The CW's turn today. They unveiled the image above for DC's Legends of Tomorrow, the upcoming spin-off of Arrow and The Flash and we also got this trailer as well! We also learned that Vandal Savage will serve as the main antagonist of the first season. Here's our article detailing the plot of the new series.
As production begins for Captain America: Civil War, Marvel Studios has released a statement announcing the cast and the premise for the upcoming film:
In an episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. that acts as a direct lead in to Avengers: Age of Ultron, we got to witness possibly one of the best fight scenes on television. Arrow and Daredevil are known now for their stunt prowess, and not many people are expecting much from that Marvel TV show over on ABC. But check out this nugget:
I've never been to a Comic Book Convention before, much less as a member of press, but on April 24th through the 26th, I was able to cover C2E2 and I had a blast. Here's a few things I noticed and experienced while I was there. All the photos were taken by my great friend and photographer Liz Domkoski.