Movies
Halloween (2018)
Since I finally got around to the 1978 Halloween this past week and the 2018 sequel was leaving HBO at the end of the month, I opted to see it as well. This one, made 40 years after the fact Read more
Movies
Halloween (1978)
In the past year or so, I’ve really gotten into the better movies in writer/director/composer John Carpenter’s filmography. But somehow, I’d never seen the original Halloween. That’s mostly likely due to the fact I’ve only recently gotten into horror movies. Read more
Books
Dark Age (Red Rising Book 5)
I generally really like the work author Pierce Brown has done with his sci-fi Red Rising series. Although the first book sounds a lot like a more adult-version of The Hunger Games, Brown presented a rather morally complex world where Read more
Movies
6 Underground (2019)
It seems like everyone is releasing movies straight to streaming now and by-passing the traditional theatrical release, or at least just issuing a limited one. But if it was good enough for Martin Scorsese, it should be good enough for Read more
The Podcast
Tomcast 2020 Podcast: Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
The podcast returns, and this time around, Jen and I talked 1986’s Big Trouble in Little China. Funny thing, though. I actually never saw Big Trouble as a kid whereas Jen saw a lot of it. Consequently, she’s a big Read more
Movies
Richard Jewell (2019)
I think the trailer for Richard Jewell bothered me a little bit. I generally enjoy movies directed by Clint Eastwood, but of late, he’s been on something of a “real American heroes” thing, where most of his movies have been Read more
Movies
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
I’ve mentioned before many times, even on the Tomcast 2020 podcast, that I have a certain formula for remakes. First, the remake should have a distinctive reason to exist and not simply be some kind of shot-for-shot rehash. Second, it Read more
TV
Vikings Season 6 (Episodes 1-3)
Back in the summer of 2016, just after Game of Thrones ended, I started a project at Gabbing Geek where I would do write-ups for five different shows, one for each day of the week (excluding weekends), one episode at Read more
TV
Crisis on Infinite Earths Parts 1-3 (2019)
In 2012, the CW premiered Arrow, a superhero TV series based off the longtime DC Comics character Green Arrow. The initial idea was to tell comic book stories without too much in the way of fantastic powers. Oliver Queen (Stephen Read more
Books
American Born Chinese (2006)
I got to see Gene Luen Yang give a talk during a teacher’s conference probably a decade ago. He spoke quite a bit about American Born Chinese and the experience of making original graphic novels, so why didn’t I read Read more