Category: Nerdom
“Stranger Things” goes “Peanuts”
“A Stranger Things Christmas”- something you probably didn’t know you needed in your life. Leigh Lahav and Oren Mendez created this short video for Youtube channel OnlyLeigh, where Lahav animates shorts clips of shows and pop culture. In this video Will Byers has returned from the Upside Down. Feeling altered, he turns to his friends.
Nintendo Switch Reveal
Nintendo’s new console has finally been revealed along with a trailer. The artist formally known as the “NX” will be called Nintendo Switch, both a home and handheld console. The hybrid can be played from the comfort of your couch or on the go… or on a plane, in a field, walking the dog like the ...
Westworld Episode One: “The Original” Review
I had forgotten that Westworld was premiering on HBO, but randomly managed to catch it Sunday night, a pleasant surprise to wrap the weekend. All I could really remember from the trailer was sci-fi and animatronics, or something like that. What I got was a more complex question about the realities we live in and ...
Things I Want Right Now
I’m a dreamer and I like to imagine that I can afford things. Sometimes that dream becomes a reality and I buy things I can’t afford, but when that’s not happening I like to scavenge the internet and nearby novelty shops (like Box Lunch or 2nd & Charles or Half Price Books). Here’s a wish list ...
Anime Weekend Atlanta
AWA is wrapping up today, the 21st year for the con. Every year the Renaissance Waverly Hotel and Cobb Galleria in Smyrna, Georgia hosts Anime Weekend Atlanta at the end of September, a con for Japanese culture and anime. This is a great con if you want something smaller that Dragon Con, but with a similar feel. Of ...
Dragon Con 2016
This post is about a week late, but I wanted to say something about my Dragon Con experience this year and how much I love this con!! Now my fourth year attending the annual Atlanta convention, this year was a very different experience than previous years. For one thing, the past two years I had films that ...
Best King Arthur Adaptations
It’s pretty amazing that the King Arthur legends have been around for about fifteen centuries- entertaining global audiences for nine- and still hold up today. Storytellers have drawn out many narratives from Arthurian legends, using various character point of views and a variety of mediums. Next year a new Arthurian film is set to release, ...
Made it Stranger with “Stranger Things” Font
Having fun with the “Stranger Things” font generator this morning. Make your own strange font phrases at makeitstranger.com.
Suicide Squad isn’t great, but hopefully we’ll get a Harley Quinn movie
Watching Suicide Squad over the weekend took me back to my film school days, when we would watch edits of our classmates films and address story and continuity issues. If Suicide Squad screened in front of my professors, they would ask the same question: What’s the inciting incident? To this David Ayer and Warner Bros. ...
Neptune Your Dial 