It’s been a while, but with entertainment products being reliably released once again, it’s time to look at what I’m excited about this month. TV, movies, books, podcasts, video games, comics – I’m picking the things that I’m looking forward to. Time to get pumped! The Suicide Squad (August 6) […]
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Catching Up With Marvel Studios
David Harbour is nine years older than Scarlett Johannson. I have to start here because that’s maybe the most important takeaway. And not just because he plays her ersatz father in Black Widow. In general, that’s an astonishing thing to be true about those two people. Harbour is a couple of months older than me and […]
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition – Catching Up with My Space Friends
I haven’t been playing video games like I used to. Maybe it’s because my relationship to entertainment has changed over the last year, maybe it’s because I’m just indescribably old. Or maybe I’m just not ready to spend a lot of money on a new console generation. Regardless, most of […]
Back to the Movies
The last time I went to a movie theater was early March. 2020. I saw Bloodshot, the Vin Diesel superhero movie that was supposed to launch an interconnected universe but was so bad that it shut down movie theaters for a year. I used to see two movies a week. […]
Welcome to the Ape Hive
Welcome! If you’ve come here as a former reader of Spunkybean, I’m glad to have you back. I worked on that site for fourteen years and the reasons for shuttering it and starting something new are both myriad and boring. But I can assure you that although the archive is […]
An Untitled WandaVision Post
I haven’t written anything about Marvel’s WandaVision even though it seems like the kind of thing I would write about constantly. That mostly comes down to being out of sorts for a variety of reasons. But also, the online discourse has been exhausting. Between the people proclaiming it the best […]