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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a very bad movie about Martians coming down from Mars to do the honorable thing and kidnap Santa Claus (John Cail), who begins the movie by giving an interview to a pesky reporter from Santa Headquarters in the North Pole, while Mrs. Claus (Doris Rich) orders the overworked, underpaid, overstaffed (and possibly oversexed) elves of the toy factory to start hauling ass because it's Christmas Eve. (Honestly, I made up that last part because I thought it sounded funny).
By Tom Baker3 years ago in Geeks
DC Showcase Presents: Legion of Superheroes
Stories by Neal Adams, Jim Shooter, E. Nelson Briswsell, and Cary Bates. Pencils by Dave Cockrum, J. Winslow Mortimer, Curt Swan, and George Papp.
By Tom Baker3 years ago in Geeks
It's A Lethal Weapon Christmas. Content Warning.
Please don't let the trigger warning stop you from reading on. Mental health conversations are perhaps even more vital at this time of year.
By KC3 years ago in Geeks
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Ah the Christmas movie! We all know the ones, where a corporate high-flying career woman reluctantly finds herself in small-town America, covered in snow, to end up in an outlandish meet-cute with a traditional man who teaches her the true meaning of Christmas.
By Rachel Robbins3 years ago in Geeks
Veronica Lake (1922 – 1973)
My 1940’s imaginary screen-writing persona knows that Hollywood studio executives worked without a Human Resources Department. There was no talk of employee well-being, anti-discrimination legislation, or duty of care. There were films. And there was money.
By Rachel Robbins3 years ago in Geeks
The Origins of Underrated Comics: "Darkchylde"
Since it was October and the spooky season is over, why not do a creepy monstrous comic origin to end it? Well with this comic origin it's far from your usual monsters like vampires, zombies, and werewolves etc. No, this beautiful but deadly creature is far from what anyone would expect in a monster of death. I hope you all will enjoy reading this and be interested in the comic yourself. Here is the origin of "DARKCHYLDE"...
By Sorelle.Maia3 years ago in Geeks
That Dinner of ‘67 - Review
After the passing of the legendary Sydney Poiter, I came across BBC Four’s radio drama based on one of his iconic films. Kenneth Branagh, Daisy Ridley, Adrian Lester and David Morrissey star in Tracy-Ann Oberman’s new play about the making of the ground-breaking movie, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.
By Ted Ryan3 years ago in Geeks
A Love Forged in the Storm
The year was 1943, and the world was engulfed in the chaos of World War II. In a small coastal village in England, the sound of air raid sirens and the distant thunder of artillery were ever-present. Fear and uncertainty loomed over the villagers, but amidst the turmoil, a love story unfolded that would be remembered for generations.
By Maryam Ahmad3 years ago in Geeks
Max Fleischer's SUPERMAN
I watched all seventeen short episodes of Max Fleischer's excellent, excellent "Superman" series from the early Forties, from start to finish. They were great, well-animated, slam-bang actioners the lot of them, and, although there was little plot to get in the way of the derring-do, they were all that much more a visceral bang of enjoyment, an old-fashioned childlike pulp fiction, comic book dive into all-American costumed hero mythology.
By Tom Baker3 years ago in Geeks
"Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November...". Top Story - November 2023.
"The State sanctifies its own violence as law. Yours it calls crime." Max Stirner I've quoted the above little observation by proto-anarchist and egoist Max Stirner, author of The Ego and What it Possesses, many, many times; perhaps too often, but there is no other way I could think to introduce an essay on Alan Moore's V for Vendetta, the most important graphic novel ever penned, a book so transcendent in its scope, so vast in its vision of humanity (both dark and light), it has become a piece of cultural iconography. The Guy Fawkes Face Mask is now an endemic, ubiquitous symbol of covert rebellion. Adopted by the Anonymous hacker group, it has gone the rounds of the internet and the face of the globe, a way for the most radical and dedicated and subversive elements of cultural fuckery to disguise themselves, as well as meld into one single "hive mind"; a collective unit pushing against repression and corruption; or, alternately, pushing the world forward past the edge of the envelope of nihilistic rebellion. V for Vendetta, more than any other single comic book creation I can think of (outside of Superman and Batman) has transcended the realm of mere entertainment into having a permanent place in the cultural zeitgeist.
By Tom Baker3 years ago in Geeks
My Scene: The Forgotten Barbie Line
Barbie went through phases Just like how we go through different phases, But one of my favorite phases was the My Scene addition to the Barbie toys.
By Samantha Parrish3 years ago in Geeks
The Sandman: "Brief Lives"
There's no denying that Neil Gaiman's epic comic series The Sandman is a work of sheer brilliance; the sprawling horror fantasy encompasses ten volumes of individual issues, spanning various story arcs, all culminating in the saga of Lord Morpheus, Dream of the Eternals, whose brothers and sisters include Despair, Destiny, Desire, Delirium, Death, and Destruction. It is the latter, the renegade Destruction, who left his realm as an Eternal to strike out in the human world; on a remote island, with a curmudgeonly talking dog, and Destruction as his Boy (ala' Vic and Blood in Harlan Ellison's famous story). Across the way, on the famous Isle of Lesbos, lives Orpheus, son of Morpheus, a talking head guarded over zealously by a personal retinue of keepers.
By Tom Baker3 years ago in Geeks