The comic book characters Archie Andrews and his friends have been popular since the early 1940s, so most people reading this are likely familiar with Riverdale as home to the wholesome red-haired teenager Archie Andrews and his parents, classmates, and … Continue reading
The original Captain Marvel was the star of a comic published by Fawcett Comics starting in the 1940. The premise was clever: A wizard bestowed on a young boy the power to turn into a Superman-like superhero by exclaiming the … Continue reading
Jimmy Kimmel Live‘s in-house movie reviewer Yehya presents something like a review of Captain Marvel, which I gather released Friday, not that I get out that much. Link: https://youtu.be/ngFbmgT0RTc by … Continue reading
From Jimmy Kimmel Live, Yehya reviews (in under three minutes) Blade Runner 2049, opening soon: Link: https://youtu.be/_YVDTCbi4UE by … Continue reading
The film begins with David Hartman, playing an expert on Nordic history and archaeology, summoned to the home of a wealthy British industrialist (Donald Sinden). It seems Sinden’s estranged son had gone missing in the Arctic but some evidence has … Continue reading
The main characters really existed and really did most of this stuff in the early years of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. David Pakouz (played by Miles Teller) was a 20-something massage therapist barely scraping by in Miami Beach. … Continue reading
As everybody says, this is really an Avengers movie, though Captain America is the protagonist, and like the previous Captain America film it touches intelligently on some serious subjects, including unintended civilian deaths and whether dangerously powerful superheroes should act … Continue reading
This is something like a mix of the X-Men and Harry Potter. Asa Butterfield plays a troubled kid who grew up hearing tall tales from this grandfather (Terence Stamp) about spending World War II in a Welsh orphanage whose residents … Continue reading
R.L. Stine is an author best known for the “Goosebumps” series of children’s horror novels originally published in the 1990s and popular for their scares, plot twists, and flashes of humor. Stine’s books have outsold Stephen King’s, at least if … Continue reading
My friend Bryan Jones has said that Benedict Cumberbatch looks like he was drawn by Steve Ditko — the artist behind the original Doctor Strange comics — so he was natural choice for the role. Early in the film Dr … Continue reading