http://stephenalix.com/blog Writer/Professional Cynic Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:06:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The original intrigue of the super hero has always been the idea that a mild mannered person is granted super human abilities and uses them for the benefit of mankind. For years this was the mantra that permeated every comic book. Ironically it appears that after awhile comic writers became ... http://stephenalix.com/blog/2010/04/20/review-kick-ass/ I've been really preoccuped with alot these last few months. The blog kind of hit a wall when I found myself ahead of schedule on my second manuscript. I had finished it in August  and I spent the next few months in edits and rewrites. I also decided it was time ... http://stephenalix.com/blog/2009/01/05/lack-of-updates/ Wong Kar Wai is a cinematic broken heart. Everytime he floods the screen with it I find myself falling for his visual brilliance over and over again. They say the greatest directors strive to tell one story and they spend their entire careers telling it over and over again. This ... http://stephenalix.com/blog/2008/10/16/review-ashes-of-time-redux/ Sorry for the lack of updates its been a crazy summer. For the first time in a long time I've been going to the movies every week to catch a new flick at the local cinema. Never before has their been this many must-see flicks in one movie season. So ... http://stephenalix.com/blog/2008/07/14/summer-2008-award-show-blow-out-spectacularcoming-soon/ This is a spoiler free review.  Unlike so many fanboys tomorrow night I had no butterflies in my stomach walking into the NY Premiere of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. My history with the character stems mostly from catching all three films as they were endlessly repeated ... http://stephenalix.com/blog/2008/05/21/advanced-review-indiana-jones-and-the-kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull/ I could post a review for this masterfully crafted summer popcorn family film but theirs another issue I prefer to address. If you want the long and short of it, Speed Racer rocks, go see it or be doomed to discover it on video and regret never seeing this crazy ... http://stephenalix.com/blog/2008/05/13/families-dont-go-to-speed-racer-go/ Chances are that at this point you don't need anyone to tell you that Iron Man kicked all sorts of cinematic ass. You've probably seen it already and don't need to be told that Robert Downey Jr. not only stole the show he was the show. As cool as the ... http://stephenalix.com/blog/2008/05/07/review-iron-man/   Quite possibly the most self satisfide panel of the day was the one for Lionsgate films adaptation of the Will Eisner classic comic; The Spirit. Directed by frank miller starring Eva Mendez, Scarlette Johansson, and Samuel L. Jackson. Throwing away the original comics bright colored 1950's asthetic Miller paints everything black ... http://stephenalix.com/blog/2008/04/22/new-york-comic-con-wrap-up-the-spirit/   Hands down the best panel at the show was the one for Guillermo Del Toro's latest big monster flick Hellboy II:The Golden Army. Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Mike Mignolia and Del Toro were there to talk about this unexpected sequel. No one speaks more plainly than Del Toro as he ... http://stephenalix.com/blog/2008/04/22/new-york-comic-con-wrap-up-hellboy-ii/   Nothing too shocking came out of the Lucas Films panel. They talked a bit about the new Clone Wars movie coming this August along with the show premiering this fall but nothing new was revealed involving these projects. I must put in my two cents for this so called CG animated ... http://stephenalix.com/blog/2008/04/22/new-york-comic-con-wrap-up-lucas-filmswarner-bros/