You could write a pretty substantive book on the number of cancelled Guillermo del Toro projects we’ll sadly never get to see, but the recent news that we’ll be getting a “gritty reboot” of HELLBOY rather than the hoped-for threequel hurt more than most. Still, del Toro never disappoints at having something in the pipeline regardless, and this looks like it could be a suitable replacement on more than one level (it also looks really, really good):

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One full episode and one sad-occasion supplemental this week:

Me and Chris reconvene Our Family Podcast to talk MST3K LIVE, WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES, Andy Serkis’ Oscar chances and Matt Reeves directing THE BATMAN. Remember – The Tangent Podcast is being supported by Chris Chipman’s dedicated Patreon, so if you want to see it continue please consider making a contribution.

Much as I try to keep this blog from turning me into a nerd version of Andy Rooney, sometimes I hit on a seemingly meaningless question that makes sense to me but that I can’t conceive of not having been routinely asked and answered already. At this moment: Why doesn’t Netflix have a version of “shuffle mode?”

Here’s what I mean: I won’t say that I’m not a binge-watcher of things, I am. But what keeps me from using Netflix (or, frankly, most other large-variety streaming services) as much as I think I otherwise would is that I don’t always want to watch a pre-planned or immediately-desired set of programming. The fact is, having spent most of my TV-watching life in the pre-2012-or-so era, I like to have the damn thing running as the background noise of my home and I find a certain amount of genuine enjoyment in the “Oh! [thing] is on, cool!” mode of realizing something has appeared onscreen. Continue reading →

Full text review (spoiler-free) on Geek.com 

Here’s the pilot for my brother Chris and his wife Sarah’s mini-podcast about sharing geek-media with one’s children, which is being supported by Patreon.

Well, this certainly looks interesting:

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