Movie Review: World War Z
by Bill Watters, Editor It says a lot about a movie when people suggest to NOT read the book before watching it in the theater as I’ve found more and more people doing with World War Z. I rather wish…
Interview With Max Brooks
It was at the 2013 Emerald City Comic Convention that I first heard about the Max Brooks project for Avatar Press Extinction Parade. This tale combines the concept of zombies, vampires, and war. A couple of weeks ago I…
Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
The crew of the USS Enterprise returns for further big screen adventures with the latest installment in the franchise: Star Trek Into Darkness. Directed by J.J. Abrams, this new story in the Trek universe focuses on a threat that hits close to home, and forces the intrepid group of explorers to face their deepest fears. Star Trek (2009) had set the bar so high that it was hard to not to walk into the sequel without raised expectations.
Blu-ray Review: Pawn
A night shift cop on a routine visit to his favorite diner interrupts a robbery in progress. And that’s nearly all we can say without giving away key pieces of Pawn, a compelling straight to Blu-ray crime flick from first time director, David A Armstrong. Pawn contains some attractive elements: the story is told in anachronic flashback, the setup is deliciously intriguing (what team of professional thieves robs a nearly empty diner at 11:30pm?) and the cast is top shelf.
Supanova 2013: Melbourne Coverage
Sticking very much to tradition, the numbers of costumed attendees of Supanova Melbourne 2013 seemed to largely outweigh the amount of non-costumed folk, thanks to the gaze-stealing powers of their beloved attire. Just about every character, genre or media format you could think of was on display: videogame icons, television and movie characters, DC and Marvel superheroes, cartoon characters and of course the anime aficionados.
Movie Review: Trance
"Young Professor X" is back to scramble our minds in Danny Boyle's Trance. Simon (James McAvoy – X-Men First Class) is struck unconscious during an art auction heist. When he gets out of the hospital, the art thief gang bring him to a hypnotist (Rosario Dawson – Men in Black II, Clerks II, Sin City II) to try and discover where he hid the £27M ($41.5M) Francisco de Goya Flying Witches painting.
DVD Review: The Collection
The previous movie told the tale of Arkin, a petty thief who agreed to break in to one more house in order to help his ex-wife out of a financial scrape. The problem is that he isn’t the first intruder. The serial killer known simply as The Collector has booby trapped the house in order to have his way with the homes inhabitants. He’s called The Collector because he keeps one person from each invasion in a trunk. Guess how Arkin makes it to the sequel?
Blu-ray Review: War of the Dead
In 1939, along the Russian border with Finland, Nazi Germany begins secret underground “Anti-Death” experiments on captured Russian soldiers. Two years later they abandon the experiments. All records are destroyed overnight by direct order of Adolph Hitler. The test subjects…
ComicsOnline Podcast S13E14 – Holiday Spectacular Best of 2012 pt 1
SPOILER ALERT! You’re listening to the ComicsOnline Podcast. Season Thirteen. Episode Fourteen. Holiday Spectacular Best of 2012 pt 1. COMICS! MOVIES! Click the PLAY button below to listen to this episode of the ComicsOnline Podcast: Holiday Spectacular Best of…
Movie Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
by Kevin Gaussoin, Karissa Barrows, Matt Sernaker, Bill Watters, and Mary Anne Butler, ComicsOnline Staff The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the long-awaited prequel to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings 3-film saga. While the LotR series were comprised of one…
Movie Review: Life of Pi
by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief Like any story, Life of Pi can be described in many ways, from multiple points of view. And even in so doing, my audience might, no, must receive my description, my review, in a unique way…
Movie Review: Wreck-It Ralph
by Karissa Barrows and Kevin Gaussoin, Editors Like their Toy Story trilogy before it, Pixar’s Wreck-It Ralph exists in a world where once humans look away, our toys have lives of their own. This time instead of classic toys, we…
Shock Value: Let You Entertain Me
First things first, since no one had a better name for this I’m keeping Shock Value as the title for this venture into opiniondom. I’d also like to say hi to everyone that read my first article (I’ll call this…
DVD Review: Bait 3D 2 Disc Set
by Karl Madsen, Editor Not only did Jawsmake people afraid to go in the water, it started a many decades’ long run of ocean creature movies. Giant sharks, prehistoric sharks, mutant sharks, and hordes of sharks. The bar was also…
ComicsOnline Podcast S12E16 – Kevin Smith Interview
SPOILER ALERT! You’re listening to the ComicsOnline Podcast. Season Twelve. Episode Sixteen. Kevin Smith Interview. Recorded at Comic-Con 2012. Hello again and welcome to the ComicsOnline Podcast, Season Twelve Episode Sixteen. …I’m your host Kevin Gaussoin, but instead of our…