A review requested by Arlo Banta, with thanks for contributing to the Second Quinquennial Antagony & Ecstasy ACS Fundraiser. If you are like me at all, the notion of Cartoon Network making its first-ever miniseries probably budged you not at all, and knowing that this miniseries was greeted with almost exclusively enthusiastic reviews only made […]

During the press tour for Avengers: Age of Ultron – a press tour marked by an uncommon number of wrong turns by the participants – writer-director Joss Whedon admitted almost in so many words that making the film was exhausting and no fun and he wasn’t happy with the final product. It helps to know […]

Every week this summer, we’ll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend’s wide releases. This week: the Walt Disney Company is about to make a ridiculous sum of money on a movie about an artificial […]

A review requested by Caleb Wimble, with thanks for contributing to the Second Quinquennial Antagony & Ecstasy ACS Fundraiser. The danger of reviewing The Iron Giant years later is that it’s enormously tempting to frame it in terms of how nobody ever talks about it or has ever seen it, and thus joining the seemingly […]