Year: 2016

Finally MKA was done, and we moved onto one of the Fest's two movies that inspired Sandy's love of fantastic cinema as a kid. Sandy clearly loves oddball mummy movies (Curse of the Faceless Man is another such flick), and this one, featuring a were-mummy (really) proved one of those nice, solid programmers whose…

In one of the great WTF moments I can remember, the hero suddenly turns into a HORRIBLE CGI dragon at the end of the picture. Then the villain turns into a Hydra. They 'fight.' This has no effect on things, probably because even the producers of this mess realized a cartoon battle was a…

I couldn't find a full still of this guy, quickly dubbed the Centard by the audience at T(ween)-Fest. He's a centaur with a scorpion tail, I guess. Most of the time CGI is used to do his lower body and like all such work in this film, it looks awful. The actor is trying…

Here's the traditional death of the underling who failed the overlord character. I must emphasize once again that the CGI monsters actually look *much* worse in the movie itself because they are actually moving...kinda.

The only bad thing about the first Mortal Kombat is the appalling bad, primitive CGI occasionally used for the odd monster and stuff. So of course, since the sequel changed everything for the worse, Annihilation goes CGI nearly 24/7. Here's one of several just incredibly fake looking beasties (the figure on the left) that…

So T(ween)-Fest '15 is in the books as of a week ago. Sadly a lot of the regulars were not able to attend, hopefully fall goes better in that regard. Otherwise it was a good time. Last fall we opened with my perennial favorite Mortal Kombat, which went over well. So it was natural…

Off to Houston; see some of you in Dallas this weekend. Ta! Consider this an open thread. Always liked this issue. The Abomination turns out to actually be afraid of the Hulk, which makes sense as he's utterly whipped his ass time after time. You'd think you'd avoid one of the only two or…

Not the best shot of this perennial favorite, but extra points for Ghost Rider. One of the better of the few guest appearances by the Champions, although at one point GR worries about drowning, which, no. The issues also featured giant mutant crabs. Sweet!

These guys worked for Thanos, so it's at least possible we'll see them in a movie soon.

Join us at Sandy's place in Rockwall, outside of Dallas, this Saturday (we'll begin Friday night, actually) for another spring Between-Fest. Details can be had by emailing me at ken@jabootu.com. Management has decided to refocus on movie-watching, so we're going to try to hold down the recent yakking and socializing that's characterized recent Fests.…