Tag Archives: Daedelus

Alex Ain’t Tom’s Son and Boris Ain’t From the “Yay Area”

No more than a couple weeks ago, in a post about mythologically-monikered LA-based producer Daedelus, I mentioned my life-long love of myth, fantasy and comic books. As an extension of my appreciation of those three things (coupled with the fact that I grew up in a house full of wanna-be artists) I developed a […]

He Makes Beats Out of Wax, Not Wings

This weekend I saw Hellboy II: The Golden Army, director Guillermo del Toro’s sequel to his 2004 adaptation of Mike Mignola’s award-winning Hellboy comic. I was souped when the comic was brought to life in the first film, but I sat agape at the sequel, which improves tenfold upon everything they got right the […]

Easy Like Sunday Monday Morning

Although the week might technically begin on Sunday, for most working people the week starts on Monday. If the material of pretty much every stand-up comic ever is to be believed very few of these people actually like their jobs. In my estimation it’s quite likely that this is the reason why nobody’s […]

“It means they changed something…”

It could be argued that the 1999 sci-fi/action film The Matrix, while derivative of earlier films, comics, and other literature, contributed much to modern American pop-culture. Without The Matrix Wuxiá cinema probably wouldn’t have enjoyed the renaissance it had on these shores (and fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping certainly wouldn’t have gotten as many high […]