June 11, 2013 Johanna TV News 2 comments

Teen Titans Go! Gets a Second Season

Hey, maybe humor and superheroes DO go together! Since Teen Titans Go! “is the #1 program (excluding movies) on Tuesday on all TV among kids 2-11, 6-11, & 9-14 and boys 2-11, 6-11, & 9-14”, Cartoon Network has picked up a second season. (The first season seems to have been seven episodes, each having two cartoons.) It airs Tuesdays at 7:30 PM. As the network describes the show, The character-driven comedy series Teen Titans Go! focuses on the funny that […]

June 9, 2013 Johanna Comic Book Films One comment

Are You Planning to See Man of Steel?

Here’s one version of a trailer for Man of Steel, the Superman movie that opens June 14 (next weekend). Are you planning to see it? And if so, when? I just realized that I’ll be traveling for family events (birthdays and wedding) that weekend, so I won’t be part of the opening weekend crowd. Expectations are high for the film, as Warner Bros. needs a superhero hit. Marvel makes it look so easy, and the future of DC Entertainment will […]

Adèle Exarchopoulos, left, and Léa Seydoux in Blue Is the Warmest Color

June 6, 2013 Johanna Comic Book Films One comment

Creator of Blue Is the Warmest Color Graphic Novel Criticizes Movie Version

At the Cannes Film Festival last month, the winner of the top prize, the Palme d’Or, was a French lesbian romance called Blue Is the Warmest Color. Turns out that it’s based on a graphic novel by Julie Maroh (which will be published in English this fall by Arsenal Pulp Press), making it the first film based on a comic to win the prestigious award. According to the NY Times, the movie was “celebrated for its explicit sex scenes”, which […]

June 6, 2013 Johanna Comic Book Films 3 comments

Archie Comics and Warner Bros. Team for Archie Movie

Warner Bros. and Archie Comics are teaming up for a live-action feature film version of Archie, to be directed by Jason Moore, who did a great job on Pitch Perfect. The movie will be written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who’s been working on Glee but has a long comic history writing for Marvel as well as penning the recent Archie Meets Glee comic storyline. The news broke at Deadline.com, which is perhaps taking its name too seriously in speculating that the […]

June 2, 2013 Johanna Comic Book Films Leave a comment

Tamara Drewe (The Movie)

I finally got a chance to see the 2010 movie adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel Tamara Drewe, and it was wonderful. Tamara Drewe (the movie) is a very British romantic comedy with a sprawling, talented cast and good observations about human nature. And writers. Roger Allam is a best-selling novelist cheating on his wife (well-played by Tamsin Greig, whom I knew from Black Books), who without thanks runs a writers’ retreat out of their farm home. Gemma Arterton stars […]

May 31, 2013 Johanna Movie News One comment

Monsters University Clips

Disney has released three new clips from Monsters University, the Pixar movie sequel that opens in three weeks on June 21. My favorite was this one, which shows Nathan Fillion’s obnoxious frat boy character Johnny Worthington (of Roar Omega Roar) recruiting Sulley (John Goodman) while brushing aside Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal). Fillion does smarmy voices well. We also get to see roommates Sulley and Wazowski meeting over a stolen mascot: And their (interrupted) fraternity initiation:

May 20, 2013 Johanna Motion Comics One comment

Next Marvel Motion Comic Wolverine: Origin

This is an obvious prediction to anyone who’s been paying attention, since the Marvel Knights Animation motion comic releases from Shout! Factory tend to follow the path of the Marvel movies, and The Wolverine is due in theaters July 26. The next motion comic DVD will be available on July 9, adapting the Wolverine: Origin comic “written by Eisner Award winner Paul Jenkins from a story by Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, and Bill Jemas with captivating artwork by Andy Kubert […]

May 20, 2013 Johanna Movie News 2 comments

Monsters University Disney Storybook App

In advance of the coming movie, Disney Publishing has released a Monsters University Storybook app for iPhone and iPad. It’s fun to play with! You start by taking your picture for a student ID, which you can decorate with cartoon mouths, horns, eyeballs, and more to “monsterify” yourself. The “Read” option tells you the story of the movie (I assume), about how Mike Wazowski went to Monsters University to become a Scarer, with lightly animated screens and movie clips. (You […]

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