I was on a couple of really long flights recently between Japan and the US, and having several hours worth of time to kill I ended up watching three animated movies that had come out within the last year – Moana, Sing, and Storks. The first two movies had a wide viewership and based on…
[Check out other episodes of Parton the Interruption here] By Drew Parton I cannot quite describe how excited I was when I first heard that Marvel was doing a Defenders show- I was immediately giddy to see Iron Fist on screen. He is one of my most favorite superheroes, and after how great the previous Netflix marvel…
In the early 1990s two popular animated shows came out that were created by Tom Ruegger, “presented by” Steven Spielberg, had some of the same voice actors*, and which tried to bring back the same style of slapstick comedy that classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons were famous for. These two shows were Tiny…
[Check out other episodes of Parton the Interruption here] By Drew Parton With the recently announced Just Cause movie starring Jason Momoa, it’s time to reflect on video game movies. Now, here’s a problem- video game movies suck. And movie video games suck. And I think that it might be because they keep trying to adapt the wrong…
[Check other episodes of Parton the Interruption here] By Drew Parton Despite being hurt, I still love Sherlock. The first season is great, and the second season was even better. But after “The Reichenbach Fall,” the series quickly went downhill. The third season was just a let-down, and I’m not quite sure what to blame it on.…
Hunter X Hunter is a Japanese anime, that originated as a popular comic of the same name, and had a couple of iterations as an animated show. This article will be focusing on the 2011 anime. I feel like a common issue when I try to describe a particular anime to someone, is that either there…
Logan is a movie 17 years in the making. Hugh Jackman has been playing Marvel’s clawed mutant Wolverine for nearly two decades, a tenure that’s remarkable for any movie series and only moreso when one takes into account that there have been two Batmen and three Spider-Men in that interval. Logan, Jackman’s last foray in the…
