Podcast: S17E13- Comic Focus
by Mike Lunsford, Editor SPOILER ALERT! You’re listening to the ComicsOnline Podcast. SeasonSeventeen. EpisodeThirteen. ComicFocus. Kevin has Troy-David Phillips of Flashback Comics back on the show. They are joined by Marc Lutz and the trio discuss comic books,…
Blu-Ray Review: Wu Dang
It feels like forever since I have watched a good kung fu flick in the vein of so many Hong Kong classics. Finally, I get to experience another taste of sweet fighting bliss with the Blu-Ray release of Wu Dang.
Blu-Ray Review: The Raid
by Jayden Leggett, Assistant Editor An action film set in the slums of Jakarta, The Raid (otherwise known as The Raid: Redemption or Serbuan Maut in Indonesian) is a testosterone-fueled machine full of shootouts and kicks to the face from…
Comic Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Volume 3 – Issues 24 & 25
Have you ever been completely obsessed by a particular comic book series only to have it abruptly end without a proper sense of closure, with multiple questions left unanswered and various plot mysteries left unexplained? If you are anything like me you will have experienced this when Image’s run of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came to a sudden close with issue 23. As this leg of the turtles’ journey involved many drastic changes to the turtles and their universe it was considered to no longer be “canon” for Mirage’s TMNT universe, and when Volume 4 began all of the events from Volume 3 were ignored and forgotten about. Until now…
Blu-ray Review: Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda is the story of Po (Jack Black – Tropic Thunder), a panda that has spent his life working in the noodle shop belonging to his goose father’s (James Hong – Big Trouble in Little China) noodle shop, while all the while dreaming of becoming a kung fu master. Through a series of wacky accidents, Po is inadvertently chosen to take the mantle of the Dragon Warrior so that he can defend his home, the Valley of Peace, from an escaped criminal, Tai Lung, who also seeks the secret knowledge of the Dragon scroll. Po puts up with the misgivings of his reluctant master, Shifu (Dustin Hoffman), and overcome his own weaknesses in order to find his inner strength and save the day.
DVD Review: The Fist Foot Way
The Foot Fist Way is a 2008 low-budget comedy film directed by Jody Hill and starring Danny R. McBride. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s production company, Gary Sanchez Productions, picked up distribution rights to the film and hoped for it to achieve a Napoleon Dynamite-like success. It premiered in 2006 at The Los Angeles Film Festival and was screened at Sundance that same year.