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[NOTE: Since the time I have received this for review and my posting the review, the release date has slipped, and now Amazon has this set being released in October. Hopefully this means some of the issues I bring up will have been fixed. If I hear of anything I will post corrections and additions…
Hulk has thrown Wolverine’s legs 4 miles up a mountain. That’s how Marvel Knights – Ultimate Wolverine Vs. Hulk begins. Flash back to Logan being recruited by Nick Fury to track down the presumed dead Hulk. Bruce Banner as the Hulk killed a large number of people in New York City, and the man behind…
I’ll come right out and say it: I think Disney’s Oliver & Company is one of the lesser offerings the studio has put out. This adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist falls flat in my opinion. The songs are pedestrian and this feels as if nearly everybody involved was sort of sleepwalking through the process….
Marvel Knights: Wolverine Origin is one of the two recent motion comics from Shout Factory, focusing on one of Marvel’s most popular character. Here we get the six issue limited series from a decade ago that looks at the literal origin of Wolverine, a character so shrouded in mystery even the character himself has little…
Line up all the Disney animated films, stack them up, compare them to one another, and The Sword In The Stone is certainly one of the lesser offerings. The film was a success and would be the last fully animated film Walt Disney himself would see released (The Jungle Book was developed under his tutelage,…
I don’t remember if I saw Disney’s Robin Hood in theaters, as it came out in 1973, after Walt’s death. This film wasn’t started by him (unlike The Jungle Book) – and in many ways an experiment for the company. Walt Disney Studios proved it could continue to release films, but without any influence or…
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is an adaption of the comic book storyline that changed virtually everything for every character in the DC Comics pantheon. Timelines have shifted and the world is a very different place. Bruce Wayne was killed and his father survived becoming Batman. Aquaman. War has broken out between the Atlanteans and…
Before Airplane!, before The Naked Gun, even before The Blues Brothers or Animal House there was The Kentucky Fried Movie. Written by Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker and directed by John Landis the Kentucky Fried Movie is essentially a series of skits and disconnected bits of comedy spoofing mostly movies and television. Most of the names and…
Heavy Traffic came out in 1973 and was Ralph Bakshi’s follow-up to his debut, Fritz The Cat. Where both films are exploitative and adult, Fritz The Cat was much more cartoonish in many ways. It was “over the top” and excessive. Heavy Traffic while still animated and excessive, it wasn’t done as a reaction, but…
I’m not sure what you’re expecting from a film that outright promises to celebrate a person’s 21’st birthday with debauchery. It is fairly honest and open with what it aims to do. This time the co-writers of The Hangover this time write and direct, and the results are pretty much what one might (and should)…