Thinking Outside The Long Box

It's time to get groovy...........with a comic book!! Doing our best to bring back actual comic books every once in a while, and talk about some fun stuff!! Because we recently watched Evil Dead, we had to try and read something Ash related!! So, we spoke about the Army of Darkness comic book arch, Ashes 2 Ashes!!"Along the way, Evil Ash is resurrected in Egypt and builds another "Army of Darkness...

This might be one of the strangest series that we have watched in a little while! Today's episode is a recreation/sequel of something that David Bowie did, if that is any indication of how strange this TV show might be! BUT, Chiwetel Ejiofor is a phenomenal actor, with an awesome surrounding cast, so it's definitely something that you should got to Showtime in order to watch! We're talking about T...

Time to go back in our time machine to the year 1981!! A lot of things were happening around that time, and many probably missed this less than $500K movie, until later on in life! We're talking about a movie that kicked off Bruce Campbell's career! Of course, we're talking about The Evil Dead!"Ashley "Ash" Williams (Bruce Campbell), his girlfriend and three pals hike into the woods to a cabin for...

What a wild ride this today's topic is! Some might say that it's a little slow for what is going on during the film, and others have absolutely loved it so far! This was supposed to come out before the latest Spider-Man movie, but with COVID and other things going on in the world, some of the movie had to be reshot, in order to change the order! We're talking about the latest MCU film, Doctor Stra...

Time to go back to 1996, when I was all of nine years old! We're taking you to a film in which there happens to be a TON of over acting, but never in a bad way! There are even rumors that suggest that the character that Sean Connery plays, is just a future version of his James Bond character!! We're talking about the Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, and Ed Harris film, The Rock!"FBI chemical warfare ex...

What happens when Josh Brolin finds a magic giant whole on some part of his farm? The answers might actually surprise you! Josh plays a rancher who is going through a legal fight with his neighbor, over some land rights, is dealing with a random stranger showing up on the ranch in order to stay and find a story to tell, AND having to deal with a giant whole on his ranch. That seems like a lot of s...

It's time to talk about a threequel!! Today's film has been MANY years in the making. Unfortunately, it went through some troubled times, even ahead of its filming. We've now seen three different versions of Grindelwald. One, on purpose because of the plot of the first movie, and one because of everything else that was surrounding Johnny Depp. This caused a TON of drama pre filming, and the differ...

Our team seems to really like the projects that are coming out of South Korea. They have really nailed some great television lately, and we're excited for all of it. One of the projects was a zombie series titled Kingdom. It such a unique take on the zombie genre, that sometimes can feel played out at this point. For today's episode, we're talking about a Ashin of the North, which serves as a preq...

It's been a while since we had an interview on the show!! I think that it's about time to break that streak! What better way to break that streak than to have a returning guest of the show!! For today's interview episode we are once again speaking to Dacia M. Arnold!! We spoke with Dacia a few years ago during Comic Con in Denver Colorado about her book, Apparent Power. A lot of things have occurr...

What is there to say about Steven Spielberg's first movie? It is not the easiest movie to sit through, only because it is really only one note, and sometimes that one note doesn't make a ton of sense. But we are talking about the Dennis Weaver film, Duel! "David Mann (Dennis Weaver), a mild mannered electronics salesman, is driving cross-country on a two-lane highway when he encounters an old oil...

Who doesn't love the iteration of Daredevil that we have currently? And I know that most people have been super into the Moon Knight show that we're getting from Marvel as well. What most people don't know, especially if you don't read the comic books, is that they've crossed paths in the past. Today we're delving back into comic books where we discuss the 13th issue of Moon Knight. "Both out on p...

The year was 2003 and we got one of our first looks at the early Marvel universe. Yes, there were some earlier, and some better versions of the Marvel universe, but this movie is SO close to Iron Man, the movie that started it all. We are of course talking about the 2003 film, Daredevil!"Attorney Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck) is blind, but his other four senses function with superhuman sharpness. By...

Juan's biggest comic book collection happens to be Amazing Spider-Man. Not sure why I chose this book to be the series that I wanted to collect, but I did, and it is one of the more successful series of anything that I collect. With only a handful of issues needed between issues 100-300 I can say that I'm a huge fan of Spider-Man. SO, it was fun revisiting ASM for today's episode!! To tie into wha...

We promised that we were going to keep going back to our roots, and we're keeping to that promise!! The comic book that we're going to be talking about this week is a VS title for the ages!! We're talking about a Batman Elseworlds story where Batman clashes with the baddest vampire around, Dracula. We're talking about Batman & Dracula: Red Rain!"Batman investigates a series of murders of homeless...

It's time to go back to some of our horror roots!! There is not a TON of vampire content out there right now, as I think that space might be dominated by zombies at the moment. Well today we're visiting the vampire series, coming from Epix, From! "Unravel the mystery of a city in middle U.S.A that imprisons everyone who enters. As the residents struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy and seek a w...

Do you need a lesson in acting with a little bit of supernatural thrown in? Well today we have that exact movie for you to watch, and hear our thoughts about! We're going back to 1994, almost thirty years ago, in order to revisit a few high profile actors in Interview with the Vampire!"Born as an 18th-century lord, Louis is now a bicentennial vampire, telling his story to an eager biographer. Suic...

Well I'm not sure what tier superhero's that we've delved into, but we are diving deeper and deeper into the Marvel comic book lore! Maybe just two years ago nobody would have thought that we would be getting a Moon Knight series, and here we are!! We're talking about the Disney+ series, Moon Knight!! "Moon Knight follows Steven Grant, a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, who becomes plagued with b...

Do you remember all the way back to 2001, when the original Halo came out for the Xbox? Since that point there has been almost 18 different video games/expansions that have come out to make this world even bigger! This did not include making the jump to the small screen, until now! Today's episode is all about the Paramount+ series, Halo! "Halo is set to follow "an epic 26th-century conflict betwe...

Dark Horse Comic Books was founded by Mike Richardson in 1986!! Dark Horse one of the more recognizable comic book creators in the world today, of course maybe only less recognizable by the GIANT two brands!! In 1988, still riding the wave of the the super successful movie Aliens, came along a comic book to help keep moving Dark Horse forward!  "Aliens is a line of several comic books set in the f...

We took a chance on a Netflix movie that we had never heard of, to talk about for a podcast episode, because sometimes you just have to take chances with your media! For today's episode we are talking about the 2021 Netflix film, Space Sweepers! It is directed by Jo Sung-Hee! "After snatching a crashed space shuttle in the latest debris chase, Spaceship Victory's crew members find a 7-year-old gir...

The DCEU has had countless opportunities to get it's act together. And for all the trying that they have done, they've got arguably, two or three films that people really enjoy. The direction of their universe has changed multiple times, and our topic today is just one more change in direction. Since the last Batman left, pretty unceremoniously, it was time for Robert Pattinson to dawn the cowl an...

It's time to go all the way back to the year 1979!!! It's that time for a pop culture classic! We are of course talking about the film that starting a media franchise in Alien!! We spoke first about the movie Aliens, a while ago. The reason we did that is because we thought that Aliens was the stronger/better movie. BUT, we figured, at this point, it's time to talk about a movie that is still a re...

I'm not exactly sure where to start with today's episode!! We were thinking of sticking to an alien/extraterrestrial theme for the next few sets of episodes. The problem is, that we of course haven't seen these new movies, and were trusting google to help us with this task. In The Earth was the movie that google told me had aliens in it, and was a horror film!"As the world searches for a cure to a...

Our commitment to bring back comic book topics has officially begun! This podcast started with a bigger commitment to the comic book genre, and we're taking it back!! This time we're talking about an X-Men book that was recommended by Doyle. We're talking about X-Men Inferno!"THE CULMINATION OF JONATHAN HICKMAN'S X-MEN BEGINS HERE! “There will be an island—not the first, but the last…” Promises we...

This is one of the stranger topics that we've spoken about, in recent memory! Maybe not strange because of the content that this movie is filled with, but strange because we aren't sure that this movie knows what kind of movie it is!? We're talking about the "horror" film, Immanence. "Radio astronomers discover a mysterious signal in the deep sea that could be contact with extraterrestrials. After...