I remember the first time I saw Chris Tucker. On screen, I mean. I was at my aunt’s house, watching “Friday” for the first time. The film begins kind of…lethargic, as Craig (Ice Cube) is just waking up. About seven minutes in, we’re all shocked awake with Tucker’s loud, cartoonish voice: “Break yo’ self, fool!” […]
This past weekend I had the pleasure of being a panelist for The Geek Initiative on their “THE BIG TWO ON THE BIG SCREEN: Do DC and MARVEL do enough?” panel. While Marvel has Rhodey, Sam, and now King T’challa, it appears they beat DC hands down as they have…um… But wait! Everyone forgets that […]
Yesterday, I was able to see a pre-screening of the film “The Revenant,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhall Gleeson, and Will Poulter. I wasn’t sure what to expect going into this. If you told me, “Hey–want to see a film where DiCaprio doesn’t speak much, is mostly alone, and spends a good deal crawling […]
I recently had the opportunity to attend Wizard World Chicago. Instead of giving a blow by blow of the con, I wanted direct my focus of the weekend on meeting one of my icons. Growing up, one of the first real heroines I saw on screen was Kristy Swanson in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” the story […]
This year was my fourth or fifth year at SDCC, and every year, I’ve managed to see Joss Whedon in passing. Usually after the EW party, but always somewhere. The first time I saw him at the con was going by in a pedicab with Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk. Bit of a whir, but […]
