Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Gem Seddon has come up with The 15 Best Frankenstein Movies for GamesRadar. Using just her list, here are my top three choices…
Kimberly Pierce created an excellent piece for Syfy.com on how George Reeves’ Superman Helped Create TV and Superhero Fandom. George Reeves as Superman was my gateway into the world of Superheroes.
Well done, Ms. Pierece.
Hotel Artemis has jumped onto my Must-See list.
Laurent Durieux was named as one of the world’s 200 best artists. His poster for The Godfather is an excellent example of why.
Source: Andreas Grabe.
Matt Childers is “comic book artist, illustrator, designer, sometimes writer and most of all a storyteller.” I first became aware of Matt through a story that he drew called Dick Ruby and the Case of the Little Green Men (written by Brett Harris). That led me to other of Matt’s comics and commissions. I was hopeful that Matt would be up for a Stallone sketch. As you can see, he was.
I liked it so much, I immediately requested a Childers’ Jack Carter. You’ll see that here next weekend.
If you’re a sketch collector, Matt gets my highest recommendation.
Bradley Russell’s From The Rock to Dave Bautista, Here’s the 10 Best Wrestlers-Turned-Actors piece for GamesRadar was a fun read and it got me to thinking…
Shouldn’t Stone Cold Steve Austin have been rated higher than 10?
Hulk Hogan and Steve Austin both had their best performances in a Stallone movie!
Did you catch Kevin Nash’s cameo in John Wick?
Does anyone besides Bradley Russell think that Jesse Ventura’s best move was The Running Man? Ventura was in Predator!
Dwayne The Rock Johnson is #1 and should be. I also want to see for the record that Johnson’s crime film Faster is very under-rated.
While Russell’s list is a good one, there has been a major oversight. Terry Funk was left off!
How could any list of Professional Wrestlers Turned Actors omit the man who played Franky the Thumper?
Mort Drucker’s drawing of Stars of the 1980s cried out to be shared. How many of the stars can you name? If you’d like to see a much larger version, click over to The Bristol Board.
Burt Reynolds was recently interviewed for A24: Burt Reynolds has No Intention of Going Gentle into that Good Night. A lot of folks here are going to dig the interview.
Grant Hermanns at ComingSoon.net listed his choices for The 10 Best Horror Movie Franchises. If you click over you can see when the franchise started, how many films it spawned, how much the franchise has earned and a bit about each series.
Here’s Hermann’s choices:
I can’t say I agree with all of them. Also, I wonder why…
…didn’t make the list. What other horror films failed to make the cut, but should have?
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Mars Attacks trading cards came out in 1962. The set consisted of 55 cards telling the story of a Martian invasion of Earth. Although designed for children, the cards depicted humans and animals being killed by the Martian invaders in graphic detail. If the only Mars Attacks you know is Tim Burton’s comedy, then you’re missing out.
Josh Weiss, from Syfy.com, recently interviewed Len Brown one of the co-developers of the Mars Attacks cards. Check out ACK! ACK! ACK! MARS ATTACKS CO-CREATOR LEN BROWN LOOKS BACK ON THE ICONIC TRADING CARDS.
The Sicario: Day of the Soldado poster is aqui and it is muy bueno.
IDW is reprinting Roy Thomas and Mike Mignola’s adaption of Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula in a 136 page hardcover edition. This was Mignola’s last work before directing his attention to his Hellboy creation. Mignola is happy to have Bram Stoker’s Dracula back in print…
“I cannot tell you what a relief it is to have this book back in print… People have been asking about this one for ages—More than any other book of mine—and I honestly didn’t think it was ever going to be possible to see an edition, but here it is. Thank you Scott Dunbier and IDW… One of the very few older jobs I’m still pretty proud of.”
Source: Bleeding Cool.
Thief: How Michael Mann’s Cinema Debut Stole the World’s Attention. That’s right, amigos, Michael Mann’s Thief gets the Cinephilia & Beyond treatment.
Click on the link and you’ll find…
Folks here are going to dig Staz Johnson’s take on Rambo and John Matrix (Commando)! It was a commission request, and surprisingly not by me. Whoever came up with the idea came home with a winner!
