Author Archives: rickjlundeen

I don’t think I have an unhealthy obsession with Breaking Bad. If I did, I’d probably still be watching it now, over and over. I believe I’ve watched the entire series at least five times. It’s not exact because I’m sure I went back and rewatched the earliest eps more often whenever I went backContinue reading “I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS!”

Time was, in major league baseball, pitchers could and would add substances to the baseball. Vaseline, an emery board, you name it, anything to get the ball juuuust right for their pitches. Eventually, it went very public and the League had to step in. Gaylord Perry bragged about his mistreatment of the ball (cheating) allContinue reading “There’s No Crying in Baseball! Plenty of Cheating Though”

Today, we’re going to highlight a few of the more unusual pieces from my Thing collection. Once in a while, I would search through eBay for interesting figures of the Thing in one form or another. There are some truly great ones and bizarre ones that I’ve never bothered with because of the price butContinue reading “Look at my Thing”

Time to put this to bed. I’ll say they stuck the landing, what the hell. It would have been very difficult to maintain the quality they built to in part 3 but they did a decent job.  Arrow: Part four was the establishing of Ollie as the Spectre, the origin story of the Monitor andContinue reading “CW’s DCVU Crisis Completed!”

• As a regular contributor to the Doctor Who Companion — a lovely website run by a lovely man, Philip Bates, — it was my turn to do the full on review for the latest episode of Series 12, “Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror”. Written by Nina Metivier, the story takes place in 1903 NewContinue reading “Shameless plugs…”

Don’t worry, this is the last part….. So, in 20 odd years, there were 4 different cinematic productions of the Fantastic Four, featuring 3 casts. But who did it best?  Let’s ‘s start with Reed. Mr. Fantastic is always the biggest hurdle because introducing his stretching ability in a live action format can easily lookContinue reading “Fantastic Four in Cinema pt 5 – Casting the All Stars”

In 2015, with the clock running out on Fox’s possession of the rights to the Fantastic Four on film, they decided to film another one at the eleventh hour, thus keeping the FF hostage at Fox for another seven years. The calibre of film was a bit suspicious as well. They hired Josh Trank toContinue reading “Fantastic Four in Cinema pt 4 – “Fant4stic”, or “No, You’re Getting Colder””

In 2007, Fox got the band back together to try and improve on the modest profit the first FF film netted. All the pluses and minuses of the first movie (FF good, Doom is crap, some fun and action, no EPIC feel), were all copied and pasted into Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.Continue reading “Fantastic Four in Cinema pt 3 – Needs More EPIC”

I AM making a week out of it! In 2005, Fox tried to launch an FF series of movies to go along with their popular X-men franchise. It made total sense, as when you think of the Crown Jewels of Marvel franchise properties, Spider-man was already 2 films in over at SONY and Fox hadContinue reading “Fantastic Four in cinema Part 2: a doomed Doom”

I’m kicking off what I’m now going to call “Fantastic Fridays” because why not? Although there’ve been some good bits and highlights, for the most part, the poor FF have not had a lot of luck at the cinema. Attempts have been made, but by and large, they’ve fallen short. As we wait for KevinContinue reading “Fantastic Four in Cinema -Part 1: Labor of Love”