When one thinks of author Edgar Rice Burroughs the name Tarzan readily leaps to mind or maybe John Carter and his adventures on Mars, but Burroughs was not just a prolific writer of jungle or Martian adventures his bibliography stretches from…
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House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski. Published 2000 If you haven’t read this book you really should! I am hesitant to write too much about the contents of the book because I firmly believe it should be experienced first…
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Stand back folks, it’s The Wonder Twins! The year is 1977 and Star Wars mania was sweeping the globe so good-bye Marvin, Wendy and Wonder Dog and say hello to Zan, Jayna and their space monkey Gleek! With this…
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It’s not easy adapting a novel to the screen, they are two very different mediums (yeah, news flash) and many elements of a book just can’t be translated well into movie form, but filmmakers will keep fighting to get it…
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After giving us two really excellent comic book movies in X-Men and X2: X-Men United, Bryan Singer left the budding franchise to make Superman Returns, and the genre took a bit of a step back. I believe the biggest problem with this…
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If at first you don’t succeed try, try again and this was certainly the philosophy of CBS back in 1979. After the network’s first Captain America TV Movie failed to get a series off the ground, later that very…
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In 1973 kids everywhere were overjoyed that their favorite superheroes were coming to Saturday morning cartoons, produced by the giants of televised animation Hanna-Barbera, comic fans were finally able to see the likes of Batman and Superman battling the…
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