October. What a wonderful month. The first full month of autumn, and my favorite holiday anchoring the end of it: Halloween! What a horrorful day and night that is. As much as I love Halloween, over time I couldn’t help but wonder why one day in October should take all the glory. With 30 other…
A Look at the DC Animated Universe
From very early on I strictly followed my comic book mantra: “Make Mine Marvel!” I would occasionally venture into the DC comic book universe but it was Marvel that truly held me captive. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, the animated worlds of both these comic book titans was very soft. And VERY campy. Think back to…
Ep. 5 – Warriors, Come Out And PLAY!!!
This week, Janifer and Pedro are joined by two of the About Men Radio crew, Silvio La Frossia (who wrote The Warriors piece for TMI) and Richard Rodriguez (who wrote The Warriors piece for AMR) in this crossover event. They will be talking about the 1979 cult movie classic The Warriors and about the reunion event happening in Coney Island…
The Warriors: Filmed in New York, But Not On Location
With the news of a Coney Island reunion heating up the Internet over the last few months I was reminded of a question I came across on Facebook. The poster wanted to know what were some of our best-loved New York City themed movies. I immediately left a comment about one of my favorite films, The…
Episode 2: San Diego Comic Con 2015 Wrap-Up
In this episode of The Mass Invasion podcast, we wrap up on all the San Diego Comic Con news, as we are joined in the studio by Kevin from Illumination Entertainment’s film “Minions”, currently in theaters. Okay, so he really isn’t a REAL minion… they were out promoting the movie and we didn’t have it…
Say U.N.C.L.E.
It was the swinging 60’s, the fashion was mod and the threat of nuclear annihilation was very real. James Bond made spies cool on the big screen and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. made them cooler on television. I became a fan of the show as a kid and watched the series reruns, totally convinced that no one…
Review: Mad Max: Fury Road
Christopher Mele is the co-host of the About Men Radio podcast and lead blogger for the show’s website. Chris is married and the proud dad of two sons and two adult stepchildren, all of whom have given him prematurely white hair. My first car, a beloved 1972 Buick Century I bought from my aunt, I had…
‘Star Wars’, Don’t Break My Heart Again
I absolutely refused to get excited about it. Investing myself emotionally only to be brutally disappointed, just as I was in 1999, was not happening this time around. No way, no how! They had a second chance in 2002 and they blew it. Badly. By 2005 it was a loveless relationship that I was seeing through to an ugly,…