Damn, CIFF is stacked this year.

I’m reading Chaykin’s CITY OF TOMORROW and I cannot get past how much this guy looks like Benny Safdie.

V/H/S/Halloween, like most entries in the long-running anthology series, plays like a horror mixtape: amusing B-sides interspersed with euphoric hits. I had a pretty damn good time with it. My review for @avclub.com: www.avclub.com/v-h-s-hallow...

V/H/S/Halloween, like most entries in the long-running anthology series, plays like a horror mixtape: amusing B-sides interspersed with euphoric hits. I had a pretty damn good time with it. My review for @avclub.com: www.avclub.com/v-h-s-hallow...

I had no TV restrictions, and if you know me at all, I hope that piece of information helps explain a few things about my whole deal.

This week's PEACEMAKER is easily the best of the season so far, thrilling and terrifying and executed brilliantly. (Also, that cameo made me fall out of my seat.) My recap for @avclub.com: www.avclub.com/peacemaker-r...

Screamfest press accreditation: APPROVED 🤙💀🤙

I skipped AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM when it came out, and I still don’t regret that. But taken passively (background noise as I work), it’s not without its charms —like if Schumacher had directed the Star Wars prequels and brought his Batman energy to the assignment. Not terrible! boxd.it/baRFbt

I like Marvel. I love zombies. I did not like MARVEL ZOMBIES. My review for @avclub.com: www.avclub.com/marvel-zombi...

I like Marvel. I love zombies. I did not like MARVEL ZOMBIES. My review for @avclub.com: www.avclub.com/marvel-zombi...

[ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: First movie pull quote]

HIM: Tipping smothers metaphor with hyperactive montage, and pushes every nimrod idea to the most obvious extreme until style bludgeons substance and leaves it twitching in the end zone. My #1 draft pick for worst of the year. My review for Paste: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/him/h...

That’s Cooper!

Jim Aparo’s original art for 1992’s Detective Comics #421. For the published cover, Aparo’s art was mounted onto a page of Anton Furst’s design work for the Gotham of Tim Burton’s Batman movies.

Life has taken a tough turn lately, which has limited my ability to update DoomRocket as often as I'd like. I'm hoping for an encouraging bend in this river soon; in the meantime, I've managed a junk drawer edition of HOT PRESS where I review BATMAN #1. doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-...

PEACEMAKER finally goes ballistic in its alternate reality, introduces an eagle-hunting sumbitch played by the great Michael Rooker, and welcomes not one, but two DCU characters back into the fold -- all told, not a bad hour of TV. My recap for The A.V. Club: www.avclub.com/peacemaker-r...

I have decided that I am officially too old for the “all lower caps/no punctuation” disaffected social media posting that I’ve been doing since my MySpace page eons ago. It was a fun, stupid, meaningless run!

“I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it."

In the latest installment of REQUIRED READING, @arpadokay.bsky.social zooms in on Emil Friis Ernst's WOMB RIDER, a comic that does velocity in all sorts of thrilling new ways. doomrocket.substack.com/p/womb-rider...

My girlfriend’s out of town so I’ve been stocking up on salacious masterworks, good junk, and Marvel content.

Macon Blair’s appropriately yucky reimagining of THE TOXIC AVENGER is a vital lifeblood transfusion for the cheapo horror-comedy: a cartoon-carnage splash-a-thon, and an eco-conscious call to clean out the profiteers poisoning us and our planet. My review: www.avclub.com/the-toxic-av...

Macon Blair’s appropriately yucky reimagining of THE TOXIC AVENGER is a vital lifeblood transfusion for the cheapo horror-comedy: a cartoon-carnage splash-a-thon, and an eco-conscious call to clean out the profiteers poisoning us and our planet. My review: www.avclub.com/the-toxic-av...

This week’s PEACEMAKER might feel like an addendum to the premiere, but Tim Meadows gives it a bite to keep things lively. my recap: www.avclub.com/peacemaker-r...

AZBAT 🌹 🙏 🌹

hot off the momentum of SUPERMAN, James Gunn downshifts the rowdiness of PEACEMAKER during its premiere to seek even richer narrative terrain. I'm ridiculously excited to continue my recap series over at The A.V. Club; join the weekly discussion, won't you? www.avclub.com/peacemaker-s...

I just learned that one of my favorite guitarists, Brent Hinds, has died in a motorcycle crash. Man. I know he was a mercurial guy & his tenure in Mastodon ended somewhat bitterly but I’ll always love his playing. Did this drawing a bunch of years back as part of a series celebrating my influences:

over on DoomRocket, @matthewamuso.bsky.social cracks the first arc of THE INVISIBLES Vol. 2 to see what happened when Grant Morrison and Phil Jimenez brought Vertigo's mad counterculturalists to the U.S. of A. doomrocket.substack.com/p/bloody-hel...

DEVIL’S ADVOCATE. wily, trashy fun. one of the better thrillers from the 90s.

With Weapons, Zach Cregger crafts a ferociously wicked, heady brew, and another winning horror movie. #weapons #ZachCregger #horrormovies www.pastemagazine.com/movies/weapo...

WEAPONS: Cregger demonstrates even sharper comic-horror instincts than he did with BARBARIAN, an engrossing, brutal work with terrific performances, Kingian structure, and resonant themes that prop up the director's wicked genre-driven ambitions. my review: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/weapo...

TO KILL A WOLF: Kelsey Taylor's confident, mist-wreathed debut uses fabulistic framing to explore the unfair burdens of youth and the towering influence of grief, with rough emotional revelations that reminded me of India Donaldson's GOOD ONE. my review: doomrocket.substack.com/p/the-sparro...

I didn't fall out of my seat or anything, but I remain quite amused by THE NAKED GUN, which benefits from terrific chemistry between Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson (wild as that is). finally: a comedy in wide release that dares to be stupid! my review: doomrocket.substack.com/p/the-naked-...

Ramon Zürcher's THE SPARROW IN THE CHIMNEY: novelistic in structure, blocked like a busy stage play, mesmerizing in its articulation of generational angst, and rife with earthy, naturalistic beauty that contrasts wildly with its blunt-force twists. my review: doomrocket.substack.com/p/the-sparro...

haven’t posted a Got ‘Em stack in a bit. looks like I’ll need to make some room on the ‘s’ shelf

oops, I was dazzled by FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS, a vivid, peculiar, and emotionally present MCU entry with strangely resonant doomsday clock vibes just beneath its Silver Age veneer. it'll make one heck of a double-feature with Superman. my review for Paste: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/fanta...

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newest required reading features a digital comic with three parallel endless scroll columns telling the story together, an approach to sequential art i've never quite seen before. one of the more creative exclusive releases from the @ldcomics.bsky.social online fair

OSIRIS is B-action junk from director William Kaufman, who, despite making decent B-action junk that I enjoy in the past (SINNERS & SAINTS), has bungled his first intergalactic run-and-gunner -- and, worse, wasted Linda Hamilton's time. my review for @ign.com: www.ign.com/articles/osi...

@matthewamuso.bsky.social takes us back to 1999 when Marvel's First Family teamed up with DC's Man of Steel in a neat but otherwise forgettable crossover doomrocket.substack.com/p/that-time-...

hey, now: Marvel is set to release a facsimile edition of the best Amalgam comic, SPIDER-BOY #1, on October 1

Mazzucchelli, man.

My cover for Action Comics 1091, due out in October! Superboy!

An homage to the great Tom Grummett

after some soul-searching, I have concluded that this is somehow the best FF movie. your move *checks notes* Matt Shakman

say! cheese! boxd.it/alUkcH