Early in my first year at the University of Colorado — it may have even been the first day of classes — I boarded the bus that shuttled students between the campus and my off-campus dorm. There I spotted another […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It may be a cliché, but I’m using the new year as motivation to lose some weight. I’ve heard that this can be easier if you have a partner, so I’m going to see if The Hobbit movie trilogy would […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s a great time to be a geek. In fact, I’d say that with the quantity and quality of genre movies that it’s been producing lately, Hollywood has made geeks of us all. Here are some of the more noteworthy […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This has been all over the Internet today, so you’ve probably seen it by now. But if you haven’t, here’s the first trailer for the next Captain America movie, The Winter Soldier. Cap has never been one of my favorite […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you haven’t seen the YouTube series Man at Arms, you should check it out. It shows how Tony Swatton, a master blacksmith who has made weapons for countless movies, forges real weapons based on designs from pop culture. Whether […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m sure you’ve heard by now that Warner Brothers has cast Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman in the upcoming “Superman vs. Batman” movie. It’s turned out to be a controversial decision. Reactions seem to range from apathy to rage. Personally, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think “George Lucas” should be a verb, but unfortunately, there are so few opportunities to use it. To George Lucas something is to take a beloved property and screw it up so thoroughly that you actually make people retroactively […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve mentioned before that I’m a huge nerd I like tabletop roleplaying games. One of my favorite games is Shadowrun. If J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and William Gibson’s Neuromancer had a baby, it would come out looking […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I may have mentioned this, but Spider-Man has always been my favorite comic character. I’ve always loved him as a superhero — the costume, the powers, the smart-alec taunting — but I think it was the other half of Spider-Man, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When my daughter was very young, I made the questionable parenting choice to take her to a midnight screening of Ang Lee’s The Hulk. (I’m not sure which was more questionable, the lateness of the hour or the lameness of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…