Tag Archives: Batman

Batman has always had a special place in my heart just like I’m sure for many others. I saw Adam West once at a convention, and my heart sank. I became speechless, with my eyes getting misty. Growing up as a kid, we had the ’60s Batman, the animated series, …

Genre sticklers, beware! Some movies are more genre fluid than others, and certain action movie scenes could fit into any horror movie. Here’s a list of 11 such movie scenes, arranged in order of bleakness! The criteria for list rank: 1. How many people a scene would hypothetically impact. The …

A rainy day and a road trip with my husband gave way to a discovery of spectacular proportions. Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum is a hidden gem tucked away in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. If you are looking for the creepy and unique in arcade game form, then you will …

Well, it’s official: the dark, edgy style of superhero media has officially crossed into Marvel’s spectrum. In the wake of the success of Logan, another Marvel property, it sounds like we’ll be getting some straight-up horror influence from the newly-announced The New Mutants project, helmed by Josh Boone. What exactly …

In addition to his rockin’ band, Oingo Boingo, Danny Elfman has been a prominent composer and musician for film and television. While the 1980s had its fair share of decent music (especially the punk and new wave stuff), one of the best things to come out of that era was …

May 29th is Danny Elfman’s 63rd Birthday. Before he was known as a premier composer of film scores, he fronted the genre-mocking rock outfit Oingo Boingo; the band mixed punk, ska, and art-house sounds around a macabre aesthetic that borrowed imagery from Dia de los Muertos. They had a huge …