Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
If you’re a fan of Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns you should quickly recognize Billy the Butcher’s homage featuring Captain American blasting Iron Man with a knuckle-sandwich.
Iron Man fans will want to click over to io9 to see Iron Man returning the favor by kicking things up a notch in another Miller Dark Knight homage.
Well played, Billy the Butcher. Well played.
Ever wonder who would win in a battle between Batman and Darth Vader?
Yeah. Me, neither… until just before watching the video below.
I have to admit that I picked the wrong guy to win. Who knew?
Jurassic World: The Trailer Park is Open.
I’ve been a fan of The Amazing Randi since I first heard of him decades ago.
Despite The Amazing Randi’s stage name, and ability to perform what appear to be supernatural feats, The Amazing Randi is quite the opposite of what you might expect.
While it is true that Randi can perform mind-reading stunts, bend spoons just as those who claim to do so via mental powers, escape from padlocked chains and the like, The Amazing Randi claims no supernatural powers.
In fact since 1964, Randi has been offering up an ever-increasing amount of his own money to anyone who can show scientific evidence of supernatural powers. The amount is now up to one million dollars and no one has ever collected. The challenge has become so popular it is now an annual weekend event attended by over 1,000 believers and skeptics alike.
The NY Times.com recently posted The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi by Adam Higginbotham and it is well worth a read!
Today we have the poster and trailer to Against the Sun.
Comic Book Movie scored a new photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger from Terminator: Genisys.
The poster and trailer to Poker Night do their job well enough to make me want to know more.
Mighty Joe Young. The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. 20 Million Miles to Earth. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. Jason and the Argonauts. The Valley of Gwangi. The Clash of the Titans.
If these movies take you back to your childhood, you’ll get a kick out of i09’s Behind The Scenes With Ray Harryhausen And His Special Effects Models.
These are photos of James Remar from scenes he filmed as Corporal Hicks in Aliens before being replaced by Michael Biehn.
Although hardcore fans knew that Remar was the original Hicks no one involved in the movie’s production ever spoke about why Remar was let go.
Wired has an interesting and informative article by Jake Rossen explaining Why We’re Just Now Getting the 1960’s Batman TV Show on DVD.
The video embedded below is to the rarely seen pilot to The Orson Welles Show.
The Orson Welles Show had it been picked up would have been a weekly anthology series hosted by, you guessed it, Orson Welles.
Sadly that was not to be. Otherwise Welles could have been mentioned right there with Serling and Hitchcock when folks spoke about the great anthology series that used to be on tv.
The trailer to I am Ali looks really good!
I took the Whose Brainchild Are You? Quiz at Brain.Mic and you can see my results above.
If you decide to take the quiz, be sure to post your results!
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd is back and he’s brought Kit Latura with him!
Mike is a great guy and his commissions are always a blast!
You can see more of Mike’s art at his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
Welcome Back, Kotter burst onto the scene in September 1975 and was an instant hit. The initial idea was to focus on a young newly married teacher [Gabe Kaplan] returning to teach remedial students [called Sweathogs] at his former high school where he had been a remedial student. The show’s breakout stars turned out to be the Sweathogs.
So the focus changed.
Soon the spotlight was on the students with their teacher in a co-star or even supporting role. The teacher’s wife usually had a scene in the shows opening and again in the closing where she got to laugh at an old joke told by teacher. There were stories of an unhappy set.
Things became more complicated when Kaplan butted heads with the show’s producer and John Travolta [one of the remedial students] made it big in the movies. Both Kaplan and Travolta didn’t even appear in many of the last season episodes.
The show ran four seasons and for the first two and maybe the third it was “must-see” tv. Sadly during the the fourth and final season the audience graduated even if the Sweathogs didn’t.
The AV Club posted a piece by Noel Murray titled 10 Episodes That Show How Welcome Back, Kotter Was Like a Class in Comedy History. While that may be a bit of an overstatement, the article did bring back some fun memories of Kotter and his Sweathogs.
