As the year winds down, it’s natural to turn your thoughts toward the truly important issues, specifically what your screen-watching schedule is going to be in 2019. Hollywood, as usual, is turning to our favorite books, graphic novels, and other stories to get our butts into movie theater seats. We’ll allow it. Here are some […]
The James Cameron-produced, Robert Rodriguez-directed film Alita: Battle Angel is now in theaters. The trailers lay out the basics of the story: a beautiful, if strange-looking young woman with a powerful cyborg body lays waste to a slew of mechanized, mohawked villains, but still manages to find time to share a few quiet moments with the […]
Does anybody else remember when there would be maybe one or two big SFF adaptions in a given year? And there was at least a 50/50 chance that they were going to be done on the cheap? Yeah, not anymore. 2018 sees another big crop of movies with big names in the cast and behind […]
November brings a batch of new manga to enjoy on those long, cold nights of winter—and the return of a couple of classics as well. Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira and Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel Alita are back in new, ultra-deluxe editions, and we also get a Tokyo Ghoul art book, a new series from Natsume Ono, […]
It goes without saying, at this point, that there are more comic book movies (mostly of the superhero variety) doing bigger business than ever. To keep our interest, they’ve had to evolve: among 2018’s adaptions of super-franchises are horror, comedy, and animated films, alongside new iterations of more traditional action. Some look like they’ll be […]
