First, here are my previous entries on my Comic Con 2018 experience to date: San Diego Comic Con 2018: Preview Night megapost… San Diego Comic Con 2018: Day One Megapost… San Diego Comic Con 2018, Day 3 Mega-Super-Duper post… And now? The big goodbye. Sunday, July 22nd was the 4th and final ‘official’ day of…
Tag: #ShapeOfWater
Sci-fi and diversity do well at the 90th Annual Academy Awards…
First, I want to say upfront that I’m not big on the idea of pitting art (and artists) against each other in competition. Personally, I am one of the least competitive people on Planet Earth. The Academy Awards ceremonies in particular bring to mind the apples and oranges analogy: Is “2001: A Space Odyssey” any…
Personal Favorites of 2017
Just want to begin by saying that for this year’s favorites list, I’m going to get away from numerical or other arbitrary values (same way I won’t give ‘thumbs up’ or 1-5 star ratings, etc). So unlike last year’s list, I’m not going to do rankings. Just a list. I also recognize that there are many…
“The Shape Of Water”; just your typical, Cold War-era, girl-meets-amphibian love story…
Guillermo del Toro (director/producer of “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “Devil’s Backbone,” and the “Hellboy” movies) directs and co-writes (along with Vanessa Taylor) a Cold War fairytale that exists in a surreal, stylized early 1960s that brings to mind the TV series “Mad Men,” as well as some of the earlier, better films of the Tim Burton canon…