The New Mutants Movie is Finally Happening!
What a long, strange trip it’s been! Back when FOX Studios still owned the X-Men, they commissioned a spin-off film based on the New Mutants from the comics. FOX went ahead and actually made the film starring the classic comic characters like Cannonball and Wolfsbane, and they made it into a horror movie.
The New Mutants film was supposed to come out…either last year or the year before, but it got indefinitely delayed while Disney went about buying FOX. Everybody thought Disney would just shelve the project, or maybe quietly air it on Disney+ just to get rid of it.
But nope! A new trailer came out today with the promise that The New Mutants will be in theaters on April 3! Fancy that.
Trailer looks pretty darn cool. It succeeds in taking these mutants and putting them in a horror film, that’s for sure. Things look scary. But will it be scary? Will it be a quality film at all? Who knows! But you can be darn sure I’ll be in the theater to find out.
Perhaps now the FOX X-Men franchise can end with a good movie instead of Dark Phoenix last year.
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 1/4/20
Happy New Year, everybody! It’s 2020, so we’ve got a whole new year of comic book fun to look forward to! The year starts off on a strong foot, with enjoyable issues of Doctor Doom, Lois Lane and the kickoff to the new Thor by Donny Cates! He does a pretty solid job starting off.
Comic Book of the Week goes to the new issue of X-Men for finally doing something worthy of the new status quo of Dawn of X! Also, Apocalypse is interesting for the first time ever.
A mutant of culture
Meanwhile, my brother got me the first Saga compendium for Christmas. It’s a pretty huge book, containing upwards of 50 issues. I’m both tempted and fearful about reading all that Saga again. Someday I’ll to give it a shot, for sure.
Comic Reviews: Doctor Doom #4, Lois Lane #7, Marauders #5, Thor #1 and X-Men #4.
Just, Like, A Couple of Weird Movie Trailers
Look, it’s still technically the New Year’s holiday. Not much is happening in the world. I definitely don’t feel like doing too much work. But I am always up for sharing new movie trailers with you loyal henchies! I love movie trailers, and there are definitely some weird ones coming out recently.
First up is Gretel & Hansel, a modern horror re-telling of the classic fairy tale. Your guess is as good as mine.
Then we have A Quiet Place Part II! The first one was a successful horror movie, and this sequel…looks to capitalize on that!
I liked the first one well enough. I’m sure I’ll see it’s sequel.
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My 6 Favorite Things of 2019
Happy New Year, everybody! Like pretty much every pop culture site on the internet, I do a round-up for my favorite things of the past year. Unlike all those professional sites with their professional standards and plenty of employees, I just try to bang out my favorites in a couple different categories. Mostly, there were a ton of good TV shows this year!
I had a little trouble coming up with some bonus categories. I don’t really listen to music, so I can’t judge that. And I need to get my Lists of Six up to six. Sometimes I’ve done my favorite toys of the year, but then I didn’t really buy too many memorable action figures or LEGO models. And sometimes I’d done my favorite new thing on the internet, but I don’t think I saw too many new and exciting things. And there weren’t many memorable movie trailers!
So join me after the jump to see what I eventually came up with! Along with my favorite video games, TV shows, movies and comic books! Feel free to share your own favorites in the comments!
Waluigi, Unraveled
Do you henchies watch Brian David Gilbert over at Polygon? He’s a funny guy, and he’s been making some great, humorous, academic video game videos on YouTube for awhile now. This is some hilarious stuff, and I like to share hilarity when I find it!
Behold perhaps his greatest achievement: Waluigi, Unraveled!
That is sheer funny. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did! And I highly recommend going through and watching all of his videos. They’re a gem on this wasteland of an internet.
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