NEWS WATCH: Vin Diesel’s Bloodshot Gets an Official Movie Novelization
Sony Pictures Consumer Products, Valiant Entertainment, and Titan Books Team Up to Bring Fans “Bloodshot – The Official Movie Novelization”
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Adler #1: An Ambitious Penny Dreadful
Adler #1
At its finest, Adler #1 (Lavie Tidhar, Paul McCaffrey) is a delightful penny-dreadful inspired by Victorian fiction. Yet, an unbalanced narrative and “same face syndrome” may make you wish you’d read the books that inspired it instead. For now, Adler’s biggest mystery is what anyone should expect from it.
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Some THING is in the Works
Back in 1982, John Carpenter released one of the most amazing horror movies of all time, The Thing. The story, based on John W. Campbell’s novella Who Goes There, has actually been turned into a movie twice with a 3rd movie following essentially the same plot but coming in as a prequel to Carpenter’s classic. This week, it was announced that Universal and Blumhouse are developing another one!
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The Grudge: A Curse Is Born
The Grudge
The Grudge is a technically beautiful film with tonnes of atmosphere and dread to spare, as well as solid performances all around from a game cast, more-or-less making up for what it lacks in effective scares and horror set-pieces.
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NEWS WATCH: IDW and Smithsonian Enterprises Announce Groundbreaking Graphic Novel Publishing Program
IDW Publishing and the Smithsonian to create a library of graphic novels built on the cultural and scientific knowledge of the world’s largest museum, educational, and research complex.
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Paul Cornell, Demon Knights, Trans Treatment
Paul Cornell turned trans people not passing into a joke every issue of Demon Knights. We, readers, have to deal with that without unintentional fallout, without unintended insult. Wee! us.
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Dracula: In Blood We Find the Truth
Dracula
Although “The Rules of the Beast” starts off in familiar territory, showrunners Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat eventually manage to present their own unique twist on the subject matter – aided by a delightfully over-the-top performance from Claes Bang as the titular vampire – setting up a new status quo for the rest of the series that’s different from anything we have seen in previous adaptations of the novel.
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Sailor Moon Says Don’t Fear Changing Things
Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon as been around almost 30 years and its adaptations are always their own animal. This is good.
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NEW WATCH: Marvel Unlimited Expands This January
Next month kicks off the acclaimed ‘House of X’ series, establishing a new world for the X-Men!
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The Brilliance Behind Masks in HBO’s Watchmen
During its original run, DC’s Watchmen famously proposed the idea that the people behind the mask were far from heroes. True to its text, HBO’s Watchmen masterfully explores that very same theme.
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The Murder Tourists and Oscar Zarate
Oscar Zarate and Alan Moore’s I Keep Coming Back is a horror story in which a fairly normal man just has a drink and watches strippers. Expressive, desperate art bringing us low-blow misogyny and a walk.
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NEWS WATCHl: Thomas Lennon travels from the 5th dimension to National city as Mxyzptlk
Same Mxyzptlk different actor on “Supergirl”
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