Ever since those old “I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC” commercials came out, some enterprising folks immediately capitalized on them and made an analogy between the two big comics companies, Marvel Comics and DC Comics. For anyone who has read on both sides of that aisle, the differences can be very much like night […]
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I’m A Marvel… And I’m A DC
Posted: 25th March 2012 by J. Marcus in Comic Books, Film, Up on The Soap BoxTags: Batman, DC Comics, Doctor Who, Green Lantern, Marvel Comics, Spider-Man, Superman, Thor
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Michael Bay Mucking with Origins for his TMNT Reboot!
Posted: 20th March 2012 by Dion in Film, News, Up on The Soap BoxTags: Michael Bay, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers
The net is blazing with talk in response to Michael Bay’s admission that he plans to change the origin story of the four beloved main characters in the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle reboot… and not all of it is good.
Did Netflix Pull “The Boyguard” Just to Make Some Money?
Posted: 21st February 2012 by Dion in Music, News, Uncategorized, Up on The Soap BoxTags: Apple, iTunes, Michael Jackson, Netflix, SONY Music, The Bodyguard, This is It, Whitney Houston
Internet rumors abound that the DVD rental giant Netflix, pulled from it’s streaming catalogue The Bodyguard (1992), just to boost it’s DVD sales.
Why Tim Burton’s Batman Still Holds Up (And May Still Be the Best Version)
Posted: 28th December 2011 by Dion in Comic Books, Film, Film Review, Up on The Soap BoxLast night I watched an old favorite of mine, which I was ecstatic to discover had aged like a fine wine, not like an old can of skunked beer. I hadn’t seen it in probably 15 years and had my doubts. Luckily, it held up just fine, and definitely gave the recent “re-visioning” of the franchise a […]
The Podwits – Episode IV: Mr. Crankypants Goes to the Movies
Posted: 10th December 2011 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Podcast, Science Fiction, Up on The Soap BoxTags: Cabin in the Woods, Drew Goddard, Ernest Borgnine, Farrelly Brothers, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, George Lucas, Howard Hawks, John Carpenter, John W. Campbell Jr., Joss Whedon, Paul Verhoeven, Remakes, Robert A. Heinlein, Shatfish, Square Enix, Star Trek, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, The Thing, Three Stooges
Brian’s got a chip on his shoulder and a bug up his butt about some new remakes in the Hollywood pipeline, J. and Dion try to talk him off the ledge, and many film buff hijinks ensue. Plus listener comments and your Borgnine fix. Getcher red hot Podcast right hee-yah!
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Posted: 5th December 2011 by Dion in News, Obituaries, Up on The Soap BoxTags: American Dad, Everybody Loves Raymond, Family Guy, Friends, Jackie Gleason, King of Queens, Last Shot with Judge Gunn, Obituaries, PIXs 11, Scrubs, Seinfeld, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The George Lopez Show, The Great One, the Honeymooners, The Jeffersons, The Odd Couple, Two and a Half Men, WPIX
It is indeed a very sad day. The Honeymooners, one of the only shows that has aired almost entirely uninterrupted since it ended in the late 1950′s has finally been taken off the air, to free up the space for bigger and “better” shows. WPIX-11, the local New York station that people in the […]
Leaving Technology at Home
Posted: 27th November 2011 by Yorkshire Girl in Up on The Soap BoxTags: Childhood, Disney, Technology
It was listening to this weekend’s podcast that got me thinking about technology.. Well not really technology as a whole but the commercial I saw a few weeks ago that has been on my mind ever since.
100 Greatest Guitarists According to (Yawn)… Rolling Stone
Posted: 27th November 2011 by Dion in Music, Music Review, News, Up on The Soap BoxTags: B.B. King, Bucky Pizzarelli, Chuck Berry, Dick Dale, Django Reinhardt, Jimi Hendrix, John Pizzarelli, Keith Richards, Les Paul, Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone Magazine, SteveVai
Here we go with their lists again… So Rolling Stone Magazine has compiled a list of what they call the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”. The magazine supposedly used guitarists in the music world to vote. Well what did Rolling Stone come up with might you ask? A bunch of hot steaming garbage if you ask me.