Talking With The Hasbro Marvel Team
Dan Kleiner At New York Comic Con this year, I had a chance to speak with Ryan Ting, Dan Yun, and Dwight Stall. The team at Hasbro that handles the Marvel license.…
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TV Review: Star Trek: Lower Decks: Season 4: Episode 8 (Paramount Plus)
“It’s carnivorous moss? Are you kidding me?”The Lower Decks is a show suffused with a huge amount of honest love and respect for Star Trek the long-running, massive intellectual property…
TV Review: Chucky: Season 3: Episode 3 (Syfy)
“Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger, right Chucky?”“Wanna bet?”With their splattery, silly, and self-referential show Chucky, SyFy, and USA Network have a blood-splattered success on their hands. Episode 3…
TV Review: Loki: Season 2 (Disney Plus)
“Everything you’re doing is wrong and all of your gods are dead!”Marvel Studios’ Loki returns to Disney+ for a second season. The titular time-slipping, variant god of mischief finds himself…
Movie Review: A Haunting in Venice (20th Century Studios)
“I speak to the ghosts here all the time.”“Do you?”“Yes. They say you’re a fake.” A tense, clever who-done-it with whip-crack, back and forth banter, A Haunting in Venice is…
Movie Review: Blue Beetle (Warner Bros. Pictures)
“You’re really lucky. This house is full of stuff. Your house is full of love.” Blue Beetle is a 2023 Warner Brothers picture directed by Angel Manuel Soto from a…
Movie Review: The Last Voyage of the Demeter (Universal Pictures)
“Never said nothing about dragons!” The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a 2023 Dreamworks picture directed by André Øvredal from a screenplay by Zak Olkewicz and Bragi Schut Jr.…
Movie Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount Pictures)
“Maybe one day, everyone will love us the way they love Ferris Bueller.” Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a 2023 Paramount Pictures release directed by Jeff Rowe with…
Movie Review: Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
“As a kid, I thought if I could combine physics and New Mexico, I could be happy.” Oppenheimer is a 2023 Universal Pictures film written and directed by Christopher Nolan.…
Movie Review: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount Pictures)
“We live in the shadows for those who we hold close and those we’ve never met.” Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning (Part I) is a 2023 Paramount Pictures release. This film…