Vigilante Diaries (2016)
Director Christopher Sesma has been cranking out direct to streaming action films. Co-writing this film with star Paul Sloan, the twosome got this story started as a web series and got seven episodes onto USA before it got canceled. The Vigilante has been captured and a black ops team with Wolfman (Quinton “Rampage” Jackson) and […]
The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark (2021)
When I turned 12, every other kid was outside playing and I was hidden in my room devouring every gigantic issue of the Comics Buyer’s Guide, a newsprint tabloid packed with the hidden occult knowledge behind the pages of funnybooks by the same people who made All In Color for a Dime, a book I’d checked out of […]
Thor Love and Thunder (2022)
This is a movie of weird inconsistencies and you’re either going to be forgiving or you’re going to hate it. Or maybe you’re a Marvel fan and will just love anything they put on screen. I’m predisposed to enjoy comic book movies because I remember an era when all we got was Ron Ely as Doc […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Broken Hearts (2019)
When Indigo (Maye Harris), a sheltered teenager with congenital heart disease, meets and befriends Sarah (Ellie Adrean), a more rebellious teen about getting a heart transplant, she decides to break free of her New Age parents’ strict worry and start living as an actual teenager. Director and co-writer (with Max Kaplow) Alessandra Lichtenfeld has put […]
Valhalla – The Legend of Thor (2019)
A remake of the 1986 animated film Valhalla, this film takes advantage of Thor’s popularity to tell the story of Røskva and Tjalfe, two Viking children who travel from Midgard to Valhalla with the gods Thor and Loki to face the Jotnar, the Fenrir wolf and Ragnarok. Shot on location in Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, this has characters that look […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Wish You Were Here! (2022)
In the year 2038, a rise in authoritarianism — look, let’s just admit this is our future and move on. Isaac (Nathan Whitfield) is trying to keep his sister Taylor (Kenny Cumino) safe — they live on the outskirts of society — which means keeping her old handheld game sticked with batteries to keep her […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Zeria (2021)
With a strange and surreal blend of masks, life-size puppets, miniatures and rear projection, writer and director Harry Cleven has created something I’ve never seen before: a post-apocalyptic puppet show. In the year 2056 and on the eve of his hundredth birthday, Gaspard writes a video letter to the grandson he never met — and […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Roger Must Die (2022)
Directed and written by Allison Shrum, this film finds Beverly (Lindsey Akers) and Suzette (Sara De La Haya) deciding that because Roger (Taylor Novak) is the worst husband of all time, he has to go. And if that death happens to be in the middle of a decent meal, well, then so be it. Shrum […]
Batman (1989)
I’m beyond happy that social media did not exist for Tim Burton’s Batman. Could you imagine how upset — more than letters columns, fans in comic book stores angry about the film and the 50,000 protest letters sent to Warner Brothers — they would be about Batman being played by comedic actor Michael Keaton? The guy […]
Little Superman (2014)
Not everyone gets a romantic origin story. For Willy Wilson, a 12-year-old comic book fan, it takes falling into a manhole and getting trapped in a sewer for a few days to learn that he can fly and has telekinesis. So when he’s free, Willy puts on a mask and does what more than one remix […]
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