2024 was expected to be a tumultuous year. After the Covid-19 pandemic, the domestic box office has struggled to fully regain audiences even with tempting titles from major franchises.
When the first Sonic the Hedgehog feature was released in 2020, very few good video game movies existed, and even that film was a gamble (we all remember the debacle with Sonic’s original movie design). Thankfully, it paid off handsomely, and Sonic the Hedgehog was the most delightful vi...
I was working on my East Lansing past and present article when I saw a picture of the Broad Art Museum that made me stop and think, "Oh yeah, that did happen there, didn't it!". The thing that happened: Warner Bros. filmed part of the "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" movi...
The last Great Recession was precipitated by not just far too much global greed in the housing market, but by other firms short-selling the market in companies which had stocked the housing system with junk, to blow it up for their own profit-taking. It left numerous opportunities. And, wh...
Over the last near-decade, this site has been a place for me to talk about movies as I watch “the canon,” whatever that means, and 2022 was the first time since I started doing this that we got a release of theSight and Soundlist of director and critic top filmsof the decade. ...
Fruits Basket: The Final Seasonpremieres on April 5 on Crunchyroll and Funimation. The first episode is available to stream now onFunimation. Godzilla: Singular Point This spring couldn’t possibly be a more fortuitous season for Godzilla fans, what with the highly anticipated premiere of studio...
Lewis was one of the few who saw things so simply. In the eyes of others, there were several issues. First, Myra Gale Brown had been just 13 years old when they got married on Dec. 12, 1957. Second, she was his cousin, and the daughter of his bassist J.W. Brown. She was also...
I highly doubt Godzilla had the same sentiment inGodzilla vs. Biollante,but I enjoy the film enough to call it sweet. It's been just over twenty-five years since it was released (December 16, 1989) and it felt wrong to overlook. I wanted to do something special for the film's...
about what was out there in the darkness - which you can see in Godzilla. I guess that's really where it all began."Like many of his generation Gareth, 38, was also a huge fan of 1977 epic Star Wars - an obsession that almost drove his parents and older sister Lisa to distraction....
Richard Meltzer. Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, Eric Bloom and Allen Lanier helped shape their sound, which ran to brain-melting jams, heavy riffs and fantasy/sci-fi lyrics on favorites like "(Don't Fear) The Reaper," "Godzilla" and "Burnin' for You." Lanier left in 2007 and died in ...