July 26, 2019
Every year in July, the nerd community gathers at San Diego Comic-Con or SDCC to celebrate the comics, movies and shows that they love. And every year, the rest of the world doesn’t understand why people fight crowds to go sit in conference halls watching movie trailers. I get it. It’s a bit weird but…
July 6, 2019
BS: In the immortal words of Obi-Wan Kenobi, “Hello There!” and welcome to another one of Bill and Daniel’s Excellent Reviews! Before we get started, we think it’s important to give you a spoiler warning, not for Far From Home, but for Avengers Endgame. If you’re one of the three people who haven’t seen…
April 27, 2019
So if you didn’t know, Avengers: Endgame hit theaters and like the good nerds they are Daniel Dunston and Bill Sheehy went to see it on opening night. They were so moved by their experience they decided neither one could write the review alone so they decided to write it together. BS = Bill Sheehy. DD…
April 24, 2019
In case you haven’t heard, oh who am I kidding, you know that Avengers: Endgame is coming out this weekend. Marvel is tying up the loose ends on the story it has been telling for 11 years and 22 movies. But what if you haven’t seen any of these movies or you didn’t want to…
March 11, 2019
If you’ve listened to me blabber on on fellow Funkhouser writer “Diamond” Daniel Dunston’s podcast Nerds for Normal People, you’ll know that pretty much all of us were skeptical about Captain Marvel. Every trailer released made it look like your run of the mill origin story, that because it’s Marvel, will inevitably be good,…
February 5, 2019
There’s an old adage in comic books that The Punisher can only be successfully written in two different ways; as a hyper violent Loony Tunesesque take on anti-heroes, or as a soulless monster that’s much closer to a serial killer than a super hero. Humanizing him has always been out of the question. Netflix’s take…
December 12, 2018
Once Upon a Deadpool’s existence is a bit of a mystery to me. A PG-13 reimagining of Deadpool 2 where Deadpool tells his story to a kidnapped Fred Savage sounds hilarious, yet I couldn’t help but feel a little nervous. Part of the reason Deadpool works so well is because it stays true to the…