Recently I saw on my Twitter timeline an “Ad” that tried to tempt me to click by declaring “see the stars of Goodfellas now and then.” There was Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco in the movie and supposedly recent photos of them. Talk about extreme clickbait. Ray Liotta passed away
Blu-ray Review: Shinobi (Limited Edition)
Ninjas snuck into my life through two entertainment events. First was their role in the Japanese based James Bond movie You Only Live Twice. Bond (played by Sean Connery) gets trained by a group of Ninjas for a dangerous mission against Blofeld’s secret rocket base inside a volcano. The second
Monday Movie: Pulp Fiction, by David Bax
The post Monday Movie: Pulp Fiction, by David Bax appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Pulp Fiction originally ran as part of our top 100 movies list. The Scorseses and the Spielbergs were the first generation of
Blu-ray Review: Prison Walls Abashiri Prison I-III
You often hear movie critics whining about sequels are announced. Why must we get another installment of a film? Has Hollywood run out of ideas? Most of the time with a Hollywood sequel, reuniting the cast and crew turns out to be a case of a cash grab without much
The Weekly Round-Up #754 w/ The Blood Brothers Mother #1, X-Men #34, Free Comic Book Day, and more
I’m still trying to dig myself out from under the stack of new comics that are burying me, as life is still insanely busy. But, if you’re interested in my thoughts on new-ish comics from a couple of weeks ago, here we are: Best Comic of My Week: The Blood