TV Review: Revolution – “Pilot”
by Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor In a world that is so reliant on electronics and power for personal comfort and daily operations, a new series called Revolution (on NBC this September) poses the question: what happens when the power goes…
Book Review: The Excellent Adventures of Max and Madison
by Jayden Leggett, Assistant Editor It’s not just for kids… OK, it’s pretty much entirely for kids. But it’s GOOD for the kiddies! The Excellent Adventures of Max and Madison is an imaginative collection of stories grounded in reality but…
Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man
There’s a great part where Spidey’s swinging in front of an American Flag. Impossible to find. Oh well. This’ll do. Happy Independence Day, ComicsOnline readers! What better way to celebrate than to put up my (only slightly overdue – thanks,…
Blu-ray Review: Spider-Man Trilogy
by Erin Hatch, Editor It has been ten years since Sam Raimi launched his series of Spider-Man films, and the best way to see just how much has changed in the past decade is to watch the series over again…
Movie Review: TED
by Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor Now if you were told that someone was going to be creating a movie about a boy and his teddy bear, one would think that this would be a family flick with wholesome morals and…
Book Review: Redshirts
by Brian Burgoyne, Reviewer Stop me if you’ve heard this one…Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Ensign Ricky beam down to the planet; guess who’s not coming back. Redshirts. The most made fun of characters from Star Trek TOS. A character…
Book Review: Miserere, an Autumn Tale
by Michelle Stettler-Gill, Books Editor Miserere is the debut novel by writer Teresa Frohock, a complex world done in parallel to earth referred to as Woerld. The novel is not so subtle in its religious overtones, in Woerld all of earth’s…
Movie Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
by Erin Hatch, Reviewer The Civil War may be the most traumatic event in American History, a bloody conflict that determined our national identity while leaving wounds that linger even in today’s contentious politics. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter turns this…
Movie Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Abraham Lincoln was one of the most important Presidents in our country’s history, which is why I imagine Seth Grahame-Smith chose to write a novel in his quirky style of serious-story-meets-pop-culture-fantastical-addition. He’s done this with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,…
Movie Review: Brave
by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief Brave is set in medieval Scotland where our new Disney Princess, Merida DunBroch (Kelly Macdonald – Boardwalk Empire, Harry Potter) is coming of age and is commanded by her parents King Fergus (Billy Connolly – X-Files: I…
Blu-ray Review: John Carter
Once in a long while a story comes along that changes the way certain stories are done… a story that inspires countless other stories after it for years to come due to how it changes things. Back in the 1920’s,…
Blu-ray Review: Men In Black I & II
Back in the mid-nineties, comic book adaptations-to-movies were still in their infancy. Hollywood was looking towards comics closely for inspiration, as several movies were vaguely adapted from comics around this time. Such titles as Mystery Men, Tank Girl and Men…
Movie Review: Safety Not Guaranteed
by Chuck Lindas, Reporter Those of us who really enjoyed films such as Cyrus and Jeff Who Lives at Home, both written and directed by the brothers Duplass Jay and Mark, may have been very excited when we saw the…
Movie Review: Rock of Ages
What do you want to do with your life? by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief In the late 1980s I listened to classic rock and heavy metal all day long. I had long, bleached blond hair and even had a hair band…
Blu-ray Review: Meatballs (1979)
by Chris Learned Kane, Reviewer. One of the most perplexing and annoying (but nonetheless true) ironies of adulthood: walking down a candy aisle and realizing at once two things: you could totally afford to buy ALL of it; and that…