I have about an hour commute to work each day, and it becomes very easy to get sick of the “music” on the radio. Some folks enjoy listening to audiobooks on their travels, my salvation from the top 40 crapfest is Podcasts! I recently had an acquaintance ask me what a podcast was, and…
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Opinions on Media
The Many Faces of The Incredible Hulk
In 1962 Marvel’s creative giants Stan Lee and Jack Kirby brought the world The Incredible Hulk a story owing much to Lee’s love of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and as Ben Grimm’s orange monstrous form in Lee and Kirby’s Fantastic Four comic was so…
The Many Faces of Godzilla
Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes and James Bond have each been portrayed by several actors and with vastly differing styles but to me Godzilla stands above all as being the most varied movie icon of all time. So today we take a look back across the ages at the many incarnations of Godzilla to see what makes…
The Plot of Avatar: The Last Airbender
Yesterday I was thinking about the story of Avatar: The Last Airbender, when something occurred to me.
John Carter: From Book to Screen
The 2012 movie John Carter was based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel A Princess of Mars, and is most notable for its disastrous box office than the actual quality of the film, and I think most can agree that the biggest stumbling block the movie had was that it was saddled with one of…