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Preacher

by Xaviar XerexesAugust 16, 2018March 8, 2020

Preacher is the comic book series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon about the story of Jesse Custer, a preacher in the small town of Annville, Texas. The superhero part of it comes from when Custer is possessed by Genesis — the offspring of an Angel and a fallen Devil — and gains the power of “the word of God” which seems to be able to command anyone to do anything. It’s also a love story between Jesse and Tulip O’Hare; and a frenemies story between Jesse and Cassidy. And a giant fight with a Dan O’Brien style all-powerful cult descended from Jesus …

THE MARVEL MOVIE UNIVERSE

by Xaviar XerexesMarch 7, 2018March 8, 2020

Marvel movies and teevee series have become enormous in their scope raising all kinds of questions of how they all fit into a shared universe and more importantly, what order to watch everything in. Luckily others have done all of that work already — CNET, Collider, and Fandom Marvel Wiki all have put together comprehensive lists of the movies, shows and shorts in chronological order. To begin with, the first Captain America: The First Avenger and the two seasons of Agent Carter are clearly set in World War II and thereafter — a bit disconnected from the other movies and teevee shows which …

2017: Year in Movies

by Xaviar XerexesDecember 30, 2017

David Ehrlich’s 25 Best Films of 2017 supercut is pretty amazing: [vimeo 245670075 w=640 h=360] Here’s a shorter supercut by The Playlist: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrWXRwb17Io?rel=0&w=560&h=315] And a medium length one from Screen Junkies: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdONd-JVpsk&w=560&h=315] Filmography:[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLY_lT1R6DQ&w=560&h=315]

2016: Year in Movies

by Xaviar XerexesDecember 31, 2016

David Ehrlich super cutting up 2016: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0CCDf0qeuk&w=560&h=315] One from Clark Zhu [vimeo 193944508 w=640 h=360] And one more with more focus on sci-fi, superheroes and comedies: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUuRffbaYpk&w=560&h=315]

Maybe Joe Sill Should Do a Star Wars movie?

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 23, 2016

This unlicensed, not authorized short film from Joe Sill is really, really good. Sill is a professional director so it’s not entirely surprising that the film looks so good but he also gets pretty naturalistic performances from all three main characters (Kara, her Dad and the X-Wing Pilot).

The Man in the High Castle

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 22, 2016

The novel The Man in the High Castle is my favorite novel by Philip K. Dick. (Granted I haven’t read all of them yet so that could change.) I was interested when Amazon did a pilot for a teevee show based on the novel. Mostly I thought it was an interesting adaption. It did a lot of work to recreate the alternate universe. I was a little less excited about the change from a book to a film for the central plot device. (A macguffin or a metaguffin perhaps but important to the story). [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzz_6dmv03I?rel=0&controls=0] I haven’t had a …

The Magicians on SyFy

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 18, 2016

I hope Lev Grossman is right because The Magicians series is one of my favorite stories and I really really want to like the teevee series. The pilot is up on Youtube – the series starts on January 25th. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_uCz2CX1PM?rel=0&controls=0] Update February 2018: Was this a bookmark post? Let’s call it a bookmark post. I’ve watched the first two seasons of The Magicians (the third is debuting now but I don’t have the right combination of streaming services to watch it yet) and it’s been entertaining. Besides aging everyone up into college (the books were set in highschool) they …