If advertisers are anything to go by, it sounds like big game is totally in again this week! I don’t know what lions and zebras need with all those big screen TVs and appliances, but they’re apparently on sale for … Continue reading The Big Game Day Thread 2/4
If you’ve ever had to walk across a rushing stream, the opening sequences of Baahubali: The Beginning will give you anxiety. When see a man named Shiva, played by gloriously mustachio’ed Indian film star Prahbas, climb a waterfall that must be a … Continue reading Made Overseas: Baahubali: The Beginning (2015)
So last week’s Darin Morgan was pretty great, huh? Who knew that the world needed was the truth about who starred in that genie move from the 90’s? Anyway we are back to mythology episodes, specifically about … the kid. … Continue reading The X-Files Live Chat (Season 11, Episode 5)
Who’s that new college kid leaning across the wall just so? So cool. He doesn’t care what anyone thinks! Joe Cool breezed into the comic strip pages in 1971 with a James Dean devil-may-care attitude and a pair of cool … Continue reading The Joe Cool Day Thread 1/31
Is ABBA Sweden’s greatest export? With the exception of H&M department stores… arguably yes. Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad make up ABBA, the group that dominated pop music from the 1970’s to the early 80’s. Their … Continue reading ABBA: The Day Thread 1/28
If there was ever a movie that was made for the internet, it was Enthiran (which was released as Robot in English). The internet had built it’s bones on curating (and snarking on) international curiosities such as Turkish Star Wars … Continue reading Made Overseas: Robot (2010)
Let’s talk X-Files! What sort of crazy conspiracy are our favorite FBI Agents up to today? Continue reading The X-Files Live Chat (Season 11, Episode 4)
On January 24, AD 41, Emperor Caligula of Rome was assassinated by a conspiracy involving the Praetorian Guard, senators, and equestrians (who would’ve been referred to by the far more stately term “knights” if this was the Middle Ages). Among … Continue reading The Caligula Day Thread 1/24
208 years ago, big headed writer Edgar Allan Poe was born in Baltimore, Maryland. After a lifetime writing literature that would terrify Homer Simpson, Poe died of mysterious circumstances at age 40. Many explanations have been offered, from suicide to … Continue reading The Poe Toaster Day Thread 1/19
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
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