Going to start with a real cracker, and one that will surely be contentious. I love the films of the Coen Brothers and own many/nearly all of them on DVD. They’re just good film and I love that they aren’t defined by any genre, they’re just defined by redefining genres, which is a pretty masterful [...]
Posted on July 28th, 2010 by ryan
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Inception is going to get mixed reactions because people don’t know what to expect when they go in. They want a film that’s better than Christopher Nolan’s last effort, The Dark Knight; but they secretly don’t want that. They want something different yet drastically the same, and they probably want something more when they’re maybe [...]
Posted on July 27th, 2010 by ryan
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I am going to start a little feature set here called Creator Calling Cards, just as I have over at The Weekly Crisis. In it I’ll showcase a favourite creator of mine, be they a film maker, a writer, an actor, an artist, whatever, and I’ll then pick one piece from them that should be [...]
Posted on July 22nd, 2010 by ryan
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I’m still having a blast on thoughtballoons. We’re in over two months, onto our 9th character, The Penguin, and everything is peachy. But a few days ago it wasn’t, not for me at least. The Penguin was about to launch and I had been thinking for about a week and I had completely nothing. It [...]
Posted on July 18th, 2010 by ryan
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I finally gave myself two hours aside to watch George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead. This is the 6th Dead movie that Romero has made, and though the original trilogy only kept getting better it certainly feels like this second second trilogy just keeps getting more unmemorable. Land was actually quite terrible but at [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2010 by ryan
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I hack on about Justin Greenwood because he’s a great artist, he truly is. Nearly everything I see him do I like and I can only hope that his star will continue to rise. Recently, he’s been working on some commissions for paying fans and the results have been pretty awesome. His style works really [...]
Posted on July 13th, 2010 by ryan
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Alright, I love this show, it’s true. I love it and I think it’s nigh on perfect but I’ll try not to be swayed by my bias when writing this review, I need to take the show on its merits, and there will be some suggestions for improvements made here. For those who don’t know, [...]
Posted on July 12th, 2010 by ryan
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Sometimes you just don’t have time to say I love you, but you can still show it. Iron Fist by Declan Shalvey I am quickly growing to love the work of Declan Shalvey and anyone who wants to draw Iron Fist this well is always going to be great in my books. This pic is [...]
Posted on July 8th, 2010 by ryan
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I’m not always a massive one for blog meme’s or anything. I find some of them interesting but usually they just hash out the usual stuff. I created a comic book meme and watched a few run with it, and I’m still waiting for a XXX meme to rear its ugly lubricated head (and I [...]
Posted on July 6th, 2010 by ryan
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The genius known as Francesco Francavilla has decided to honour the end of LOST by having LOST week, which is now spilling out a bit longer than the week he had planned. Francavilla is a master at giving a character a pulp/noir definition in his work and he plots the image around them so that [...]
Posted on July 4th, 2010 by ryan
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