The Seventh Son is the bi-product of the success of the Harry Potter films and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, as studios scrambled to find a new successful franchise, and how does one go about making a new fantasy film franchise?
Gunpla – An Introduction
Ever since the creation of plastic (well, maybe a bunch after), people have molded it to look like other things; cars, boats, airplane. All that jazz. Then at some point, giant robots got mainstream. Like, very mainstream. This is partially due to a show called “Mobile Suit Gundam“. And from that, as time went on,…
The Land of Hidden Men: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
The Land of Hidden Men (also known as The Jungle Girl) is a classic Burroughs “lost world” story where the protagonist will stumble upon a lost civilization and the dangers within and eventually find true love. This is of course is all done in the way only Edgar Rice Burroughs can do it.
Transforming Comics – The Digital Age
Traditionally people think of comics as being pamphlet style books, featuring heroes and villains. However, since the 80’s, comics have been spread over the net to a much wider range of stories and audiences. Today I want to talk about some of the digital aspects of comics.
Retrospective Review: Alien 3 (1992)
If any film is proof that studios need to be kept as far away from the creative process of a film as possible, it’s Alien 3. To a lot of fans, myself included, Aliens didn’t really need a sequel, it ended perfectly. The queen’s hive destroyed, most, if not all of the Xenomorphs wiped out,…