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Thanks for checking out this page. I hope you’ve enjoyed the articles. When the new year hit (only 4 mos. ago now–why didn’t I post this update sooner…), I took some time away from the MYOPIA articles to focus on writing fiction. Unfortunately, there are only so many hours a day to write and sometimes i have to pick and...
A look at the fate of the Star Wars novels from the 90s and 00s...books that financed LucasArts and buffered Star Wars popularity. Books that quite frankly, faced a sad fate when Disney took charge.
A further look at Star Wars novels during the 90s, and how books were the fuel that helped bring the movies back...even if all aspects of the changes that followed weren't exactly loved by all.
During that lull in the hype surrounding Star Wars movies--yes there was once such a lull, though brief--novels about everybody's favorite wookies, Jedis, and scoundrels began to fill the void. These novels even deserve a ton of credit for returning Star Wars to the forefront of Hollywood.
Remember those creatures from 80's movies that used to be terrifying, and that we pretend aren't terrifying once we're adults...unless we think about them too much at night. Here's my take on the creepiest creatures from 80s era kid's movies.
Celebrate the cold dark autumn with some good old fashioned horror movies. The list is spoiler, and arguably, crappy-horror-movie free.
He used to seem like a movie making genius...until he began to make movies on par with what a kid might film. When did he change? What can we speculate happened to him? Is there hope left for Shyamalan?
To close Superhero September, here's my take on superhero origins--that foundation on which great comic book characters are built, and usually the reason a character becomes a hero instead of just some jerk running amok with powers.
At long last, superhero movies became a thing that comic-book fans didn't have to cringe at, and something mainstream audiences actually wanted to see too.
The early 90s were a booming time for comic book movies, and a time when Hollywood turned a bunch of superheroes no one had ever heard of, into movies that nearly no one wanted to see.
The success of the Superman meant that fans of superhero movies were NOT in for a treat, not really at all, at least until a bat came along,
Superhero movies were once a rare novelty. The battle to make a superhero movie that was taken seriously by Hollywood, was a feat in and of itself.