Shock Value: Hi, What gives me the right?
Hi, I’m Karl Madsen, ComicsOnline Editor, comic geek, music aficionado, and horror fan, and this is my first shot at a blog. The reason I’m writing this is to answer questions I get asked periodically, and also as an introduction….
ComicsOnline Podcast S12E14 – Avengers Wing Night
*WARNING: EXPLICIT AUDIO CONTENT* SPOILER ALERT! You’re listening to the ComicsOnline Podcast. Season Twelve. Episode ThirteenSlashFourteen. Avengers Wing Night. Recorded June 3rd, 2012. This Episode, Kevin and Dune return to normal podcasting! Topics include The Avengers Movie and everything geek…
SDCC 2012: Stan Lee’s World of Heroes
by Mary Anne Butler, Reporter Stan Lee’s World of Heroes is a new youtube channel for all things Stan, fandom, and entertainment. Aside from the lady (who I won’t name) completely TAKING OVER the round table interviews and hijacking EVERY…
Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man
There’s a great part where Spidey’s swinging in front of an American Flag. Impossible to find. Oh well. This’ll do. by Karissa Barrows, Editor Happy Independence Day, ComicsOnline readers! What better way to celebrate than to put up my (only…
Movie Review: TED
by Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor Now if you were told that someone was going to be creating a movie about a boy and his teddy bear, one would think that this would be a family flick with wholesome morals and…
Movie Review: Safety Not Guaranteed
by Chuck Lindas, Reporter Those of us who really enjoyed films such as Cyrus and Jeff Who Lives at Home, both written and directed by the brothers Duplass Jay and Mark, may have been very excited when we saw the…
Movie Review: Rock of Ages
What do you want to do with your life? by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief In the late 1980s I listened to classic rock and heavy metal all day long. I had long, bleached blond hair and even had a hair band…
Movie Review: Prometheus
When filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the evolution of sci-fi suspense, Prometheus is the natural selection to show us the creation of horror and the horror of creation. by Matt Sernaker and Kevin Gaussoin, Editors The official synopsis says “Ridley…
Blu-ray Review: One for the Money
by Karl Madsen, Editor I have to be honest, when I first heard that there was another Katherine Heigl project coming out I did what many others did – I had a few laughs at the project’s expense. Then I…
Movie Review: The Avengers
Assemble the movie stills! There are a lot of them in here.
Sorry I’m not sorry.
by Karissa Barrows, Editor
If you have not been excited for The Avengers since first hinted at in the Iron Man franchise, you have no soul. Or whatever. Maybe not that extreme, but DUDE. The movie was destined to be either a massively awesome, mind-blowing life experience or the worst 2+ hours of life. As soon as it was announced that Joss Whedon was directing the film, I knew the former would be the case. I went to see the movie after having driven for 16 hours the day prior and still getting up super early that morning, and I was so pumped up afterwards that I was able to stay up for two hours more than normal playing Modern Warfare 3. Seriously. It is that good. I’ll explain why… and try my hardest to be as brief as possible. That’s gonna be hard, considering how much I loved this movie.
Movie Review: The Cabin in the Woods
Hey guys, the cellar door just flew open loudly. Let’s check it out!
by Aliki Taylor, Reviewer
Sure, we all love Joss Whedon and we’re already salivating over his upcoming blockbuster The Avengers, but Dollhouse has been off the air for a while, so what’s he been doing? It turns out he spoiled us years ago.
At the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con, Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse) announced on stage that he and Drew Goddard (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cloverfield) were co-writing something, describing, “It is a film called Cabin in the Woods, and it is the horror film to end all horror films. Literally. And more about that, I will not say.” Nearly five years later, we now know what he meant.
(Spoiler-free review ahead!)
Blu-ray/DVD Review: War Horse
by Karissa Barrows, Editor
Albert Narracott (Irvine) and Joey
When you think “horse movie”, what do you think of? Black Beauty? Seabiscuit? Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron? Typically, I usually think some movie that’s going to make me cry because of shameless horse-killing, the overplayed horse-separated-from-loved-owner-and-later-reunited storyline proven to elicit tears, or some cowboy movie. War Horse, Steven Spielberg’s newest film, uses those first two, mixed with a little Seabiscuit-style “miracle horse” aspect, and a little bit of storytelling I thought slightly reminiscent of Tarantino – and makes for a huge success.
WonderCon 2012: The Amazing Spider-Man – Interview with Emma Stone and Marc Webb
by Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor
The Amazing Spider-Man swung over to WonderCon 2012 to excite attendees with appearances by the talented Emma Stone (Gwen Stacy) and Marc Webb (Director). ComicsOnline (along with several of our press associates) got the chance to briefly discuss the upcoming film!
Movie Review: Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope
“When a woman tells you to grow up, that’s God’s way of telling you to get a new woman… There’s three billion women on the planet, and not a lot of great comics, so it’s an easy choice.” -Chuck Rosanski, Mile High Comics
by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief
San Diego Comic-Con is the cultural Mecca of geeks everywhere, the one place where we can all gather together and gaze across the vast landscape of all our varied fandom obsessions from superheroes to sci-fi to fantasy to horror to anime to video games and every related subject–Where we can not only hang out with each other but we can meet the creators and stars of all our favorite stuff–where ‘Trek and ‘Wars nerds can take up their sabers and phasers, not to battle each other but to pose with the next generation of geeks or to drink with the real Green Lantern or Duke Nukem and listen together to bands play songs about Aquaman or Laurence Fishburne and then look over and say to each other in the words of Joss Whedon: “Are we not dope?”