Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Most are nothing like their unethical onscreen counterparts. Photo: Photo Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon/© 2012 Knight Takes King Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved. A few months ago, I was sitting at a hotel in Huntington Beach, California, typing notes on my laptop, when two teenagers came up to me and started asking me questions. What…
The Batman prequel show returns with an episode set inside the notorious mental institution, but fails to tap into its Lovecraftian origins. Fox After a long holiday break, I’d hoped Gotham would return to our screens with renewed confidence, ready to embrace its strongest, most lurid elements and dispose of the more pedestrian crime drama…
Gail Simone’s twitter feed is wonderful. She is always tweeting fun and interesting stuff about writing, fandom and trolling Kieron Gillen. Yesterday were no different. Because she told a very lovely and personal story about herself, Joss Whedon and Wonder Woman. So here is the slightly bittersweet story of how I met @josswhedon. — GAIL…
The show is out of Arkham Asylum and back to its inert mob war, still desperately in need of a change in pace. Fox After a two-week jaunt in Arkham Asylum, Gotham is right back to where it started: Jim Gordon is a Gotham PD detective, Carmine Falcone is engaged in an internal mob war…
Photo Megyn Kelly in front of Fox News headquarters in New York. Credit Stephanie Sinclair for The New York Times close shareTools On a gray Wednesday in November, the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and four producers gathered around a conference table on the 17th floor of the News Corporation building in Manhattan. They were…
http://youtu.be/qcls41KaMEs via After Hours – The 9 Creepiest Things Movies Portray as Romantic – YouTube.
You’d think Disney’s Big Hero 6 would steer clear of controversy. That it would be a fairly innocuous movie. You’d think! Money Today reports that the movie, which isn’t out yet, is already creating some controversy online in South Korea, because net users are upset that the movie features alleged Rising Sun imagery. The sun…
Last week we gazed into the abyss, and the cold, dead eyes of the new International Rescue team from Thunderbirdsgazed back. As movies and TV constantly seek to strip-mine your nostalgia for profit, redesigns like this are common. And sometimes, they go very wrong. Here are 11awful makeovers of our childhood favourites. 11. Rainbow Brite…
There’s certainly no shortage of tragic characters roaming the streets of Gotham — from the orphaned, crime-fighting socialite with a penchant for spelunking to the once-promising DA with a now visible dark side. But does Batman’s grimmest story actually belong to Gotham’s (other) psychotic clown? After reading this piece on the flaws in (the mostly…
Batman the Animated Series is one of the finest pieces of animation ever created as well as one of the greatest works of Television ever made. It created characters like Harley Quinn and Renee Montoya, defined Batman to many young viewers and without the series, it is very unlikely series like Young Justice or Gargoyles…