Mr. Holmes

05 Saturday Sep 2015

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and the Mystery of the Prosthetic Nose

by Thom Yee

Mr. Holmes images courtesy of Miramax and Roadside Attractions.

Mr. Holmes images courtesy of Miramax and Roadside Attractions.

I don’t like old people.

They’re coarse and rough and irritating…

…. And they get everywhere.

Wait… I might be thinking of sand.

Nevertheless, for a variety of reasons, I’ve never really cared for old people, and really that’s not okay. To some extent, we all get a pass for feeling that way because we’re all [most likely] going to get old ourselves, but saying we don’t like old people isn’t really that different than saying we don’t like people because of their ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Continue reading →

Fear the Walking Dead – So Close, Yet So Far

31 Monday Aug 2015

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by Thom Yee

Fear the Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC.

Fear the Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC.

1×02: “So Close, Yet So Far”

One of the first things I noticed when I began watching The Walking Dead was just how dirty and hot and dark the whole thing was. Something you don’t always pick up on in the comicbook version — especially because it’s in black and white — is just how grimy things would be in this world, where the blood is flying and the brains are exploding and the Atlanta heat is beating our heroes mercilessly, and even in TV scenes that were direct lifts from the comic, it really was striking to see just how horrible the zombie apocalypse would be in real life. Continue reading →

Fear the Walking Dead — Pilot

24 Monday Aug 2015

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Why I’m Watching… Fear the Walking Dead

by Thom Yee

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Because I already watch regular The Walking Dead?

Ultimately that’s pretty weak reasoning, but it’s also the type of base reasoning that makes spinoffs possible: hope for a minimum guaranteed audience. Breaking Bad fans watch Better Call Saul. Cheers fans watched Frasier. Friends fans watched Joey. Actually, nobody watched Joey.

In its earliest incarnation as an indie comicbook (aaaall the way back in 2003), The Walking Dead wasn’t a horror story, but a what-happens-after-the-horror story that wasn’t concerned with where the geek/walker/biter/rotter/roamer zombie virus came from, how it took over, if it could be cured, or when things would go back to normal because the real monster is man himself…! Continue reading →

Fantastic Four (2015)

15 Saturday Aug 2015

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What the ‘FF’ is everybody’s problem?

by Thom Yee

Fantastic Four images courtesy of 20th Century Fox

Fantastic Four images courtesy of 20th Century Fox

We live in a dismissive culture.

Deriding people staring at their smartphones.

Telling people their video games are a waste of time.

Throwing away our children’s’ comicbooks.

Locking all the doors and throwing away all the keys, whether we’re doing it consciously or simply as a reflex, because there’s surely nothing important on that screen, nothing to learn from video games, and no meaningful stories in comicbooks. There is only us and what we value, not you and yours, and when everyone says a movie is terrible, we pile on without care, without question, often without even witnessing, always so happy and only too eager to have found something new to reject. Continue reading →