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The “Jay Sherman Test” and 2013’s summer blockbuster movies

April 6, 2013December 10, 2021 Anthony

Repeating a post from last year, I thought I’d look at 2013’s summer blockbuster movie slate, and see which ones pass Jay Sherman of “The

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RIP Roger Ebert, Carmine Infantino, and George Gladir

April 4, 2013December 10, 2021 Anthony

Unfortunately, bad news has adhered to coming in threes, as they say. Today marks the deaths of three individuals involved in the world of entertainment:

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Films I’ve missed: “Superman/Batman: Apocalypse”

January 27, 2013December 10, 2021 Anthony

The latest animated film I’ve seen is the direct-to-video movie “Superman/Batman: Apocalypse.” The film is based on a 2000s comic storyline that re-(re-re-etc.)-introduced Supergirl to

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Films I’ve missed: “Superman vs. The Elite”

January 21, 2013December 10, 2021 Anthony

Since writing about TV or movies seems to get more blog traffic than just writing about comics, and since I’ve not written enough on here

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A look back over summer 2012’s blockbuster movies

August 28, 2012December 10, 2021 Anthony

Since Labor Day’s coming this weekend, marking the effective end of the summer movie season, I may as well look back now on this summer’s

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The “Jay Sherman Test” and summer 2012 blockbuster movies

March 30, 2012December 10, 2021 Anthony

Thought I’d look (as I did last year) at the upcoming batch of summer movies, as applied to the “Jay Sherman Test” (as I’ve dubbed

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Followup to summer 2011’s animated/comic book movies and the “Jay Sherman Test”

September 18, 2011December 10, 2021 Anthony

I thought I’d follow up my earlier post on what I’ve dubbed the “Jay Sherman Test” (in a take-off on the famed “Bechdel Test“) and

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The “Jay Sherman Test” applied to summer 2011 animated and comic book films

March 27, 2011December 10, 2021 Anthony

Besides the well-known Bechdel Test, another possible set of rules for movie-viewing, though way more lenient than the Bechdel Test, might be the ones that

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“Peabody and Sherman” movie coming in 2014

March 8, 2011December 10, 2021 Anthony

DreamWorks, the animation studio that’s home of the “Shrek” movies, has announced its schedule of movie releases for the next several years. Of particular interest

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DVD review: Turtles Forever

November 9, 2010December 10, 2021 Anthony

This weekend, I watched the direct-to-DVD movie, “Turtles Forever,” an animated film starring 80s independent comics-turned-TV-sensations, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (or in the UK,

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