If there were a movie to watch featuring beautiful people in pretty clothes, it’s House of Flying Daggers. Does this sound shallow? In most cases, perhaps, but understandable when the director is Zhang Yimou. Yimou loves bold, striking colors. His … Continue reading Made Overseas: House of Flying Daggers (2004)
In 1994, Danish rapper Lucas Secon released a song on his second (and final) album, Lucacentric, that may be history’s only recorded mashup of hip-hop and ragtime. The single reached 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. The song is … Continue reading The Lucacentric Night Thread 1/17
How big was The Mermaid? According to Box Office Mojo, the movie was China’s box office champion of 2016. Earning $527 Million, the movie grossed more than the #2 and #3 movies combined: Zootopia and (the surprise hit for China … Continue reading Made Overseas: The Mermaid (2016)
The University of South Carolina have always had a huge, glaring problem with their mascot: how do you control a living chicken? There’s the pecking, the crowing, and the chicken poop everywhere. Fortunately, the whole costumed mascot thing started getting … Continue reading The Big Spur Night Thread 1/12
The University of Oregon has a pretty sweet agreement with Disney. Thanks to a handshake agreement with Uncle Walt himself, Oregon can use Donald Duck as their mascot. Named Ronald Duck, Puddles, or just simply The Oregon Duck, the mascot … Continue reading The Mandrake Day Thread 1/12
In a world where a villain tries to rule the world by using a head-mounted device that reads people’s thoughts, a masked hero must arise to answer the call of justice. This hero with the alter ego as a rich … Continue reading Made Overseas: Silver Hawk (2004)
For a country that boasts over 7,000 islands, it only makes sense that one of The Philippines’ most popular comic book characters is water-based. And this we have DYESEBEL, created by Mars Ravelo back in 1952. She is a mermaid … Continue reading The Dyesebel Day Thread 1/8
Zhang Yimou’s Hero (2002) is based on a true story. Once upon a time, there was a rogue general with a bounty on his head. He wanted to fight back, and he did so in one of the most desperate … Continue reading Made Overseas: Hero (2002)
Stephen Chow’s directorial output may have since been eclipsed by other movies —– either by the wild Looney Tunes homage of Kung Fu Hustle or China’s 2016 box office champion The Mermaid —— but for me the closest to my … Continue reading Made Overseas: Shaolin Soccer (2001)
In early 2017, Russia was getting its own Avengers. The ambitious Sarik Andreasyan directed a movie about a bunch of super powered folks who had their origins in Cold War USSR. It’s an interesting origin story: each region of Russia … Continue reading The Bear With A Machine Gun Night Thread 1/4
Outside of Darna and Captain Barbell, there aren’t that many other Filipino superheroes who really hit the big time. There’s Dyesebel, a superhero mermaid who has been in quite a few movies (and who I might talk about later). However, … Continue reading The Flash Bomba Day Thread 1/4
Filipino comics creator Mars Ravelo was responsible for creating DARNA, a female superhero, way back in 1939. However, she would not be rocking that Flash Gordon bikini in the pages of a published Pilipino comic until 1950. According to some … Continue reading The Darna Day Thread 12/29
Look up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… CAPTAIN BARBELL, superhero of the Philippines! The Good captain first answered the call of “Do you even lift, bro?” back in 1963 and the world of superheroes has … Continue reading The Captain Barbell Day Thread 12/27
He goes by many aliases: Mister Green Christmas. Mister Sun. Mister Heat Blister. Mister Hundred and One. Among his friends, though, they call him Heat Miser. Apropos of his name, sixty degrees and over is too cold for him. Ideally, … Continue reading Heat Miser Day Thread 12/17
He goes by many aliases: Mister White Christmas. Mister Snow. Mister Icicle. Mister Ten Below. Among his friends, though, they call him Snow Miser. Apropos of his name, forty degrees and over is too warm for him. Ideally, for Snow … Continue reading Snow Miser Day Thread 12/14
It’s so hyped that I don’t even have to mention it on this site. It’s a beloved sci-fi series that started way back in the 70’s when a rag tag crew of misfits in a tiny ship were trying to … Continue reading Whatever happened to Lintilla? The Hitchhiker’s Guide radio show: Secondary Phase
The day gets darker. You put out some sparkling drinks on the table, whether it be champagne or Coca-Cola Zero Sugar. Guests are coming through the door. The glazed ham is almost ready. It’s a holiday party! You need something … Continue reading Your Go-To Holiday Get Together Album
Some day, our descendants will as us, “The ugly sweater thing. What’s the dilly-o, gramps?” And we shall have no answer for them. We have no one but Andy Williams to blame for the Christmas sweater (or jumper, as our … Continue reading Christmas Jumpers Day Thread 12/7
I believe a good critic is a teacher. He doesn’t have the answers, but he can be an example of the process of finding your own answers. He can notice things, explain them, place them in any number of contexts, … Continue reading Writer Spotlight: Roger Ebert
Open Range is a beautiful movie, but it is also very slow. Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall — two guys who should be playing cowboys way more often, if it were up to me — are free range cattle ranchers … Continue reading Scene Dissections: Open Range
The other day, I came out swinging in a topic more controversial than if you should put the toilet paper with the pull-away sheet in the front or in the back: I posited that Funkos don’t deserve your hatred. The … Continue reading The World’s Ugliest Funko POP!s
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