Why Did the Star Wars Hotel Fail? A failure so epic it takes two posts to explain it. When the Walt Disney Company finally collapses and its various parts are cut off and auctioned away, people will be asking, “When did its fall begin?” That’s an easy question with an extremely complex answer. It’s like […]
RE:Play X-Com UFO Defense
The Dark Herald gives us a rundown on the well-known and cherished X-Com UFO Defense. The unknown is at the heart of what makes the Alien frightening. Perhaps the motives can be guessed at from actions taken but can they ever really be understood? The alien lends itself to mystery by its very nature, and mystery […]
A Roger Corman Retrospective
Everyone has a favorite Roger Corman movie. You might not be willing to admit it in public, but you have it. In 1947 after getting his degree in Industrial Engineering at Stanford Roger Corman got his first job at US Electrical Motors. He started on Monday and quit on Thursday telling his boss he had […]
Anime Discussion: Urusei Yatsura 2022
The Dark Herald gives us the background of Rumiko Takahashi and discusses her Urusei Yatsura series, and the anime remake from 2022. A few years ago, Emilia Clarke was making a backdoor pitch for a superheroine movie by means of a comic book that she claimed she had written. She hadn’t and the project was […]
$100 Billion for Hulu???
All of the studios have been so badly burned by the streaming wars that it was just announced that Disney+ and Warner Brothers’ Max would be bundled together on Hulu. I have a feeling Zaslav is getting the better end of that deal. He won’t be paying for Hulu for a start. Quick reminder, Disney was originally […]
RE:View – Predator
Dark Herald reviews the original Predator movie. Does it hold up? On April 30th, 1975, Saigon fell to North Vietnam. The pictures of Americans being evacuated from the roof of the embassy couldn’t have been a clearer image of defeat for the United States of America. This was as close as America ever got to what […]
The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend Rebel Moon – Part 2: The Scargiver
There is an annual contest for writers to come up with the most hackneyed and cliched opening sentence they possibly can. They come up with gems like “She was a beautiful woman; more specifically she was the kind of beautiful woman who had an hourlong skincare routine that made her look either ethereal or like […]
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish Fired Right Before the Earnings Call
Well that was brief but exciting. Bob Bakish “stepped down” right before the Paramount earnings call started on Monday. Like the tombstone says, I had looked for this but not so soon. I actually no, I had looked for this and been surprised I hadn’t seen it long before now. Under his “leadership” Paramount has fallen […]
The Dark Herald Recommends Spy X Family: Code White
The Dark Herald Recommends: Spy X Family – Code White I have made no secret of my fondness for the anime series Spy X Family. A TV show that is at its heart about some lonely and broken if hypercompetent people forming a makeshift family works for me on just about every level. If you […]
RE:View – Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
Gerry Anderson’s Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, also known as Doppelganger, was his only production to grace the silver screen. If you were growing up in the Seventies and had been cursed with a love of science fiction, your battle cry was, ‘you get what you get and you don’t get upset.’ There […]
The 21st Century of Gerry Anderson: Space 1999 (Part 3 of 3)
The Dark Herald delves deeply into a sci-fi classic: Space 1999 by Gerry Anderson, in an epic three-part series. Part Three. See Part One. See Part Two. Space 1999 completed its first season with a good deal of critical praise and a strong following among genre fans. A strong following doesn’t mean a big one. […]
The 21st Century of Gerry Anderson: Space 1999 (Part 2 of 3)
The Dark Herald delves deeply into a sci-fi classic: Space 1999 by Gerry Anderson, in an epic three-part series. Part Two. See Part One. One of the biggest disappointments of Gerry Anderson’s professional life had to be the poor reception of Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (Doppelganger). It was his only theatrical […]
