With 3 Body Problem having been launched on Netflix, I thought the time was right to dig up my review of the movie version of The Wandering Earth. The premise for the film is big and perhaps a little ridiculous but I can accept it for a couple of reasons. One, you have to start […]
Top Ten Video Game FPS Shotguns (Part I, the 1990s)
The Coach Gun, the Trench Broom, the Boom Stick, the Brixton Typewriter? (Seriously?) Most commonly called the shotgun, it is all but harmless at a distance yet so terrifying at close quarters that the Kaiser’s Wehrmacht tried to get it banned by the Geneva Conventions. (Silly Germans, America has never signed the Geneva Convention.) It is still […]
George Lucas Turns to the Dark Side
The Dark Herald examines George Lucas Backing Bob Iger over Nelson Peltz, and other Lucasfilm news, including the Acolyte “Creating magic is not for amateurs. I remain a significant shareholder because I have full faith and confidence in the power of Disney and Bob’s track record of driving long-term value. I have voted all of […]
The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend: Damsel
It’s always obvious when a genre has outstayed it’s welcome. In 1969, Hello, Dolly! was launched into a world where the innocence of the high-production Broadway musical film was no longer welcome. The Sixth Day was arguably Arnold Schwarzenegger’s best 80s-style blast flick but no one was interested by 2000. So it is with Damsel. […]
Walt Disney World Investments SLASHED
The Disney Company has released an editorial reply to Nelson Peltz and Trian’s white paper to their shareholders. Mickey and Great and Terrible’s reply is kind of an embarrassment. It appears as if Bob Iger said the quiet part out loud. Disney seems to have convinced itself its financial legerdemain is so brilliant no one […]
The Head of Disney Imagineering Has Been Fired!
When a business wants an announcement spread far and wide, it’s made on Monday early in the afternoon. When a company doesn’t want to bring attention to it, it’s made on a Friday at 4:40 in the afternoon. When a company wants a piece of news buried six feet deep, with a layer of peat […]
Sweet Baby Cyanide
So why haven’t I said anything about Sweet Baby? Because to me the problem has been so self-evident for so long that I couldn’t see the forest for the trees. Yes, I knew about it. I knew the cancer for what it was and how it spread. I also knew that Sweet Baby Inc. was […]
RE:View – The Forgotten Dune Miniseries From SyFy
The Dark Herald reviews the Sci-Fi Channel’s Frank Herbert’s Dune, the 2000 mini-series that has been largely forgotten compared to the movies. On September 24, 1992, Leonard Nimoy was watching a countdown timer run out. For a few days, this countdown had been running on a new channel owned by USA Networks. It was a […]
The Dark Herald Recommends: Dune II
A positive review of Dune II directed by Denis Villeneuve follows. “Unadaptable” is the word that was most frequently used to describe Frank Herbert’s Dune and not without good reason. People who have had no trouble at all with Tolkien’s Silmarillion have struggled mightily to plow their way through Dune. Herbert stood the convention of […]
Jodorowsky’s Dune
One of the most influential films of all time, especially in science fiction, has to be Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune. This film’s art designs have inspired just about every movie that isn’t trying to imitate Star Wars or Star Trek, it clearly inspired ship, set, and costume projects as diverse as Alien, The Black Hole, Babylon […]
The Best Unforgotten Sci-fi TV Of The ’90s
A Dark Herald review of several very memorable Sci-fi TV series from the ’90s including Farscape, Babylon 5 and Star Trek: Deep Space 9. TV tends to lag behind film trends. The 1980s is arguably the best decade ever for science fiction and fantasy movies. In the 1990s, the small screen followed suit. My lists like this […]
First Impressions – FX’s Shogun
The Dark Herald reviews the new Japanese-themed show Shogun, by FX and Hulu, a historical fiction set in the Sengoku era. In 1942 James Clavell became a prisoner of war of the Japanese Empire. He was eventually transferred to the infamous Changi prisoner-of-war camp, where he would remain until his liberation. RELATED: The Dark Herald […]