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Veilguard's Director is Out On They/Them's Butt - Arkhaven Site
After 18’s years at Bioware Corrine Busch is going to be pursuing new projects. Busche writes: “At the heart of it, this was about my own fulfillment. I did what I set out to do at BioWare. That is to come in and help right the ship. I love Dragon Age, and BioWare, so the […]
RE:Animation - My Happy Marriage - Arkhaven Site
BUMPED: (1/17/24) I pushed this up because season 2 has started. Frankly, an anime second season is definitely hit or miss. There are lots of different reasons for that but at the end of the day you don’t know what you’re getting until you see it. So far this second season is very promising. Miyo […]
HardDrive-By: The Killing Antidote - Arkhaven Site
As you’ve already guessed from the title, this is a Chinese game. As such there isn’t a lot of info on its studio MetalStar (or at least that’s not in Mandarin) so I’ll just be concentrating on the game itself. The Killing Antidote is a Resident Evil-like third-person shooter. Although it leans pretty heavily into […]
Diamond Comics Distributor Has Filed for Chapter 11 - Arkhaven Site
I’m honestly rather shocked it took this long. But the company that is arguably the most responsible for the entire American comic book industry failing has failed itself. From Business Wire: Diamond Comic Distributors (“Diamond” or “the Company”), today announced that it has filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the United […]
The Fall of Neil Gaiman - Arkhaven Site
I’ve said this before and I’m saying it now. Power does not corrupt. Power only reveals. If you gain power you will do the things you always wanted to. It’s finally happened. It was fascinating to watch the system failing to protect one of its chosen own. It tried for a while. After all, there […]
The Last of Us Season 2 - Arkhaven Site
F-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-R-R-E!!! Since I never got into the first game I never really cared about the second but I could certainly understand why the fans were furious. I also didn’t watch the TV show because I can’t keep up with all the sewage that is getting blasted out of Hollywood’s broken pipe. People I trust said, […]
The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend DC’s Creature Commandos - Arkhaven Site
This show was weak. Given how little attention Gunn could afford to give it because of the crash program demands of Superman, it was always going to be weak. However, its worst problem was clearly a budget cut. In the last episode, it just ran into a wall and stopped dead in its tracks. Worse […]
Jude Law Was NOT Kyle Katarn - Arkhaven Site
I published a rumor from a new source back in July, long before Skelton Crew was released. I was more than a little leery about this new source. Normally I try to get some kind of confirmation that the guy is who he says he is but that isn’t always possible. I shouldn’t have run […]
The Dark Herald Recommends: Dune Prophecy - Arkhaven Site
I’ll start by saying it’s not for everyone. If you didn’t like the Villeneuve Dune movies you’re out and there isn’t any point in you reading further. The same goes if you’re simply not a fan of Dune in general. There’s nothing here for you. This show was definitely a slow burn but it did […]
Disney - The Dollar Store Tech Giant - Arkhaven Site
Disney has announced something that Bob Iger lives for, a big merger. Hulu+ Live TV will be merging with FUBOTV. For those of you who are unaware of what FUBO is, it’s a streaming service that covers cable and local channels. It’s the streaming version of Comcast and so for that matter is “Hulu+ LiveTV.” […]
The Dark Herald Recommends Last Knights - Arkhaven Site
This is from Slant Magazine. I’m only posting this quote so you can laugh at the writer’s breathtaking ignorance, unearned arrogance, and hilarious stupidity. “Last Knights is another macho celebration of honor and self-sacrifice, of fighting for “freedom” because someone else told you to, that’s devoid of any acknowledgement(SP) of the inherent irony of that ideology. […]
It's A Little Late for Half-Life 3 Gabe - Arkhaven Site
(*sigh*). It’s a little embarrassing to report on this but everyone else is doing it, so… I will have to give this Half-Life 3 rumor a little more credence than would be my usual want. Mike Shapiro has never blue balled his audience before and he sure as hell wouldn’t have posted this without Valve’s […]
2024 - End of Year Wrapup - Arkhaven Site
It’s dinner time and I finally have a moment to jot down a few thoughts about the year in pop culture. This was the year where Woke was supposedly closing up shop and the entertainment business was getting back to entertaining people. Not to be Negative Nancy but I regard this assessment as positively Doomcockian […]
The Dark Herald Recommends: Nosferatu (2024) - Arkhaven Site
(Note for the reader, I don’t normally do this but I would strongly recommend reading my essay on the original Nosferatu (1922). Some of what I reference below won’t make sense otherwise. *** Spoiler Alert: This film follows the plot of the original 1922 film. Given that the story is literally a century old I […]
The Dark Herald Recommends Squid Game - Arkhaven Site
BUMPED (12/27/24). Since my essay on season 2 is rather brief, I’ve bumped up my season one review as a courtesy extra. I’ve heard several reviewers claiming this series is like Battle Royale. It’s not. It’s The Prisoner with a high body count and lots of gore. *** Spoilers from here on out. *** The […]
The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend Squid Game Season 2 - Arkhaven Site
Writer-Director Hwang Dong-hyuk (hold the comments you are three anymore) has not delivered I’m sad to say. This isn’t season 2, It’s season 1.5. The original Squid Game was a surrealist horror story about people finding out what they will do to survive. Hwang, wrote the first iteration of Squid Game back in 2008. […]
The Amazon Bondoverse - Arkhaven Site
Amazon wants to turn James Bond into a cinematic universe. This is a classic groupthink decision. We must have a multi-character franchise. We already have a single-character franchise. We must turn that into a multi-character franchise. Let the creatives do something with our brilliant decision. I really don’t know what they can do with […]
The Dark Herald Recommends Klaus - Arkhaven Site
BUMPED 12-24-2024 I’m a little too busy to do anything. A redemption story for Christmas? The nerve of some people! This is exactly the kind of excellence that Disney can no longer achieve. This was advertised as a Netflix Original. Which is a lie, but I understand why Netflix does this. Calling something a Netflix […]
Rudolph's Propagantastic Beginning - Arkhaven Site
There are no Gen-Xers that don’t have fond memories of Rankin/Bass Christmas specials (at least the ones who aren’t sad and miserable). They were part of the magic of Christmas for my generation. Earlier generations had one-horse open sleigh rides, chestnuts roasting on an open fire, and Bing crooning about how he’d be home for Christmas. I […]
Christmas Ghost Stories - Arkhaven Site
Americans are an odd bunch, even those of us holding on to our great heritage get a lot of that heritage wrong. Take a look at Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather. Americans can identify with the familiar aspects of the story, but there are others that feel like they would be more at home at Halloween. There are strong […]
Is Activision Plagiarism Laundering?? - Arkhaven Site
An interesting and tricky legal question that I will have to be careful in dancing around. While credit laundering is legally speaking not the motive, it looks rather a lot like it’s the effect. Not too long ago Activision/Blizzard had yet another scandal. Hearthstone had sold some cards that turned out to have been created […]
Christmas Weekend Roundup - Arkhaven Site
Sonic 3 Runs Mufasa Into the Ground The spikey blue hedgehog ran the Lion King’s old man into the ground. Sonic’s take is $62 million. Mufasa pulled in a decidedly second place $35 million. This isn’t remotely a surprise. This loss was mostly due to Disney’s corporate arrogance. They moved Mufasa onto Sonic 3’s weekend […]
Looks Better Than Snyderverse Superman - Arkhaven Site
My opinions: I don’t think a single movie has ever had so much riding on it or had so many things going against it. Marvel doesn’t have anything warming up in the batter’s box that’s going to make any money. Sam Wilson’s Captain America movie has cost so much to make it would have to […]
The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend: Kraven - Arkhaven Site
Yeah, I can tell you’re surprised. The Spider-Man-free Spider-Man movies were an idea only a Hollywood producer could love. Certainly, no one else did. As far as I can tell, Amy Pascal knew she was in the process of being fired. She had been caught up in the Sony email scandal saying some excessively honest […]
Dear Jag, This Is How You Take Care of a Brand - Arkhaven Site
First a little background. Everyone except car dealers hates car dealerships. Yeah, I know and water is wet. Car dealerships were one of those FDR Goldilocks programs, they showed up for dinner uninvited and never left. The thinking at the time was that it would allow car manufacturers to concentrate on research and development. A […]
The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend War of the Rohirrim - Arkhaven Site
I shall now damn this movie with the faintest praise I can give to anything. It’s not as bad as The Rings of Power. The story this is based on is in the appendices. Here is the quick and dirty. The Dunelendings were the descendants of swarthy men who had sided with Morgoth. Like all […]
Never Apologize - Arkhaven Site
REPOST: Originally posted Dec 2021 Why was In the Heights #canceled? Oh, there is the official reason but that has nothing to do with why it got put on blast by all the major media outlets within twenty-four hours. It wasn’t the real reason the film had its box office burned to the ground and its […]
The (Sony Exclusive) Game Awards 2024 - Arkhaven Site
Well that was hot garbage. At least I played one of these award winning Sony Exclusives this year. Astro Bot — 4 wins (including Game of the Year), 7 nominations Metaphor: ReFantazio — 3 wins, 6 nominations Balatro — 3 wins, 5 nominations Black Myth: Wukong — 2 wins, 5 nominations Helldivers 2 — 2 […]
The Sony Buyout of Kadkowa Moves Forward - Arkhaven Site
That headline either means nothing at all to you, or it makes you sick to your stomach. I can’t think of a worse custodian for Kadakowa unless it’s Disney. It’s hard to come up with an anime studio with a richer history than Kadokawa. Yes, Ghibli is more beloved but when you compare the body […]
Sony Kills the Spiderverse - Arkhaven Site
Tom Rothman has had enough. The chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures is done with superheroes. He got bumped up from Tri-Star to head Sony Pictures after his predecessor ran Columbia Pictures so far into the ground Sony Japan was seriously considering dumping it on the highest bidder. The problem was that Columbia was in […]
Ubisoft Buyout Hits a Snag - Arkhaven Site
Ubisoft’s only hope right now is a buyout from Chinese giant Tencent. It looked like that was exactly what was going to happen. Except it turns out that Tencent isn’t insane, which is a considerable stumbling block to this buyout going through. You see, the Guillemot, who has led the company into its current disastrous […]
RE:Animation - My Neighbor Totoro - Arkhaven Site
Tonari No Totoro like Rashomon is one of those films that a certain type of leftie likes to claim they totally love because it is so super deep on so many, many levels, and only urban sophisticates like themselves can truly appreciate how mind-bogglingly deep and complex the story is. And the odds are good […]
K-Pop Horror Story - Arkhaven Site
K-Pop’s treatment of their “Idols” is actually worse than the American music industry provided you didn’t run into someone like Puff Diddler (I don’t know how low the odds of that are). KG Crown (real name Kiera Grace Mudder) is a young pop performer who entered a survival show run by JY Park Entertainment called […]
The Final Solution to the Drow Problem - Arkhaven Site
Screen Rant is declaring that WOTC “Must Deal with its Drow PROBLEM” before they can make a Drizzt movie. The problem is leftie brain-washing versus the foundations of storytelling. The dumb is just exhausting. In a nutshell, they’re demanding the Drow be de-evil-ized because their brainwashing demands it. The fundamental problem is if you do […]
Snow White's Trailer: A Horror Story - Arkhaven Site
Or at least I assume that’s what it’s going to be. It certainly looks like one. There is precedence for it. They weren’t called Grimm fairy tales for nothing. In an early version of the story, the queen is actually Snow White’s mother and loves her daughter deeply but then she is turned against her […]
First Impressions: DC's Creature Commandos - Arkhaven Site
This is the first of James Gunn’s new DC Universe shows. Unless you count his James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad or James Gunn’s Peacemaker, regardless, this is the first project of his where he holds the keys to the kingdom. The truth be said, Gunn usually does better with a co-writer suppressing his worst instincts. […]
James Potter Was Racist - Arkhaven Site
Meet the guy who is in talks with HBO to play Snape. From the Hollywood Reporter: HBO is circling British actor Paapa Essiedu to play one of the hottest TV roles being cast this year. The I May Destroy You actor is up for the role of Professor Severus Snape in HBO’s Harry Potter TV series, multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. Sources […]
RE:View Forbidden Planet - Arkhaven Site
UPDATE: 12/4/24 Earl Holliman, long standing Hollywood character actor and last remaining star of the 1956 sci-fi classic has passed away. In Cookie’s honor I have bumped up this post. Forbidden Planet is arguably the most influential space opera of the 20th century. Yes, I’m including 2001, Star Wars, and Alien in that statement. The reason is […]