Series of write ups on an old piece of media (albums, books, comics, films, shows, video games) that the writer has recently digested for the first time
Each week in Late to the Party, someone posts about an older piece of media that they’ve just experienced for the first time. This week: George Clooney starring in Tony Gilroy’s legal thriller, Michael Clayton. I chose this movie primarily because President Hound … Continue reading Late to the Party: Michael Clayton (2007)
Each week in Late to the Party, someone posts about an older piece of media that they’ve just experienced for the first time. This week: Terry Gilliam’s apocalyptic thriller 12 Monkeys. Continue reading Late to the Party: Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys
Many of you know that I started this feature mainly because I got so sick of the glorification of classics. So often, a project that’s beloved soon after it comes out turns out to be a piece of garbage once … Continue reading Late to the Party: Super Mario Galaxy
Each week in Late to the Party, someone posts about an older piece of media that they’ve just experienced for the first time. This week: A Dopehead in a Cubs Cap reads Jacqueline Susann’s 1966 novel Valley of the Dolls and watches … Continue reading Late to the Party: Valley of the Dolls
My dad loves old Westerns. I do not. I’ve certainly seen old Westerns I liked, but his ability to sit in front of the TV every night and weekend and watch what could, to me, be the same mediocre movie … Continue reading Late to the Party: High Noon (1952)
Title: ActRaiser Original Platform: Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) Original Release Date(s): December 16, 1990 (JP) / November 1991 (NA) / March 18, 1993 (EU) ActRaiser is an early SNES title developed by Quintet and published worldwide by Enix between … Continue reading Late to the Party: ActRaiser (1990)
Die Hard (1988) I’ve never been big on action movies. As a kid of the 80’s and 90’s, the mainstays of the action movie genre were Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Van Damme, and to a lesser extent Steven Seagal. And outside of … Continue reading Late to the Party (Pal!) – “Die Hard”
Each week in Late to the Party, someone posts about an older piece of media that they’ve just experienced for the first time. This week: q-pa watches some “Stale TV Spciaaaallls~!” We’re focusing on the Christmas output of famous animation production … Continue reading Late to the Party: Rankin/Bass Christmas Specials
Each week in Late to the Party, someone posts about an older piece of media that they’ve just experienced for the first time. This week Wasp returns for a Fourth Time to talk about both Giant a 1956 Epic Western from … Continue reading Late To The Party: Giant And The Filmography of James Dean
Spoilers for Bioshock abound! Version played: 2016 remaster in the Bioshock Collection on PS4. All screenshots below from my own playthrough. I’ve never been a great lover of first person shooters. While I was aware of the prominence of Halo … Continue reading Late to the Party: Bioshock
The idea for the discussion is simple, once a week a volunteer (or volunteers) will do a write up on an older piece of media that they are digesting for the very first time. So here’s the link to signup … Continue reading Late to the Party Signups 2021 1st Half
Each week in Late to the Party, someone posts about an older piece of media that they’ve just experienced for the first time. Our focus this week is on Walt Simonson’s seminal run on the Thor comic series, consisting of … Continue reading Late to the Party: Thor by Walt Simonson
Welcome to a Late to the Party of a book that launched a franchise and invented the secret identity: Baroness Emma Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel, adapted from her 1903 play and first published in 1905. Though there are countless earlier … Continue reading Late to the Party: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Intro Mario is the king. There is no two ways about it. If you know anything about video games, you know about Mario. Many of the big titles about the character are often considered the best of the era and … Continue reading Late to the Party: Super Mario Sunshine
For a long time now, I’ve considered David Lynch to be one of my favourite directors. It started with Twin Peaks getting its hooks into me, as I’d long heard of how influential it was on genre television of the … Continue reading Late to the Party: Eraserhead
It’s weird! It’s zany! It’s hated by many! But is Super Mario Bros.: The Movie actually fun for what it is? Continue reading Late to the Party: Super Mario Bros.: The Movie
I was thinking about how I would go about writing my Twin Peaks Late to the Party entry. Despite its classic status, I’ve managed to avoid most, if not all, of Twin Peaks’ plot points. So I decided that I’m … Continue reading Late to the Party: Twin Peaks (Season 1)
Batman: Year One is a tough read in 2020. Continue reading Late to the Party: Batman – Year One (1987)
WHAT IT IS: Farscape, for those of you who don’t know, is about John Crichton, an astronaut. In a study on wormholes, he is accidentally transported to a distant part of the universe. In the first five minutes of his … Continue reading Late To The Party: Farscape
Okay, I’m not totally late to the party on There Will Be Blood, as I finally saw it last year, but that puts it 12 years after its release. You know what film I saw when it was released that … Continue reading Late To The Party: There Will Be Blood
There’s movies, and then there’s CINEMA. Taxi Driver is CINEMA. It’s literature. If you can make a movie about the legacy of the movie that inspired it, that’s literature. You can write a whole book on it. Many film students … Continue reading Late To The Party: Taxi Driver
