Beyond the Rhetoric

Every Wednesday, I gather up some interesting blog posts that I found on the Internet. Some weeks have a theme; other weeks don’t. For today’s speedlink, you could say that the theme is being super in one way or another. We could all be just a little more super, after all. Darren Barefoot does a [...]

Iron Man 2 (2010) I enjoy a good superhero movie and based on how much I enjoyed the first Iron Man movie, I had pretty high hopes for the highly anticipated sequel. It wouldn’t exactly be fair to say that I was let down, per se, but the second movie isn’t quite as satisfying as [...]

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Computer-generated animation? Check. Cute talking animals placed in anthropomorphic situations? Check. Cheesy plastic 3D glasses? Check. On the surface, it would look like 20th Century Fox has figured out the formula to a family-friendly cartoon with plenty of merchandising possibilities. That’s on the surface. The execution of this formula, [...]

This post has been guest blogged by Ray Ebersole “Space, the final frontier.” That is the tag line for the Star Trek I grew up with. James T. Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura and the gang were my friends in the 60s. The new group of the Enterprise could be called “Space, the New Frontier.” This [...]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Although I never really got into the comic books, X-Men was easily one of my most treasured childhood cartoons. As with most of the other kids at the time, Wolverine was my favorite character, so imagine my excitement when I heard about X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This prequel to the first three X-Men [...]