the m0vie blog

I occasionally post a little section at the end of the month reviewing some of the more interesting stuff I’ve written – perhaps it might be helpful to a reader navigating the archives, but it’s really for myself, looking back from time to time. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.

It was a fun month here at the m0vie blog, and one in which we gleefully got to indulge our nerdy little interests. To celebrate the release of Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, I decided to try to review all 24 of Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin. In case you want to browse the reviews, here they are:

• Tintin the Land of the Soviets
• Tintin in the Congo
• Tintin in America
• Cigars of the Pharaoh
• The Blue Lotus
• The Broken Ear
• The Black Island
• King Ottokar’s Sceptre
• The Crab With the Golden Claws
• The Shooting Star
• The Secret of the Unicorn
• Red Rackham’s Treasure
• The Seven Crystal Balls
• The Prisoners of the Sun
• The Land of Black Gold
• Destination: Moon
• Explorers on the Moon
• The Calculus Affair
• The Red Sea Sharks
• Tintin in Tibet
• The Castafiore Emerald
• Flight 714
• Tintin and the Picaros
• Tintin and the Alph-Art

It was also a fun month because I somehow ended up on the front page of IMDb, recommended on their hit-list for an article I wrote about my anticipation around the release of Tintin. It’s always a huge pleasure to be cited by people who you admire and respect, in a field where they are really the very big players, and I’m honestly humbled by the experience.

And then there was this…

Paul Cornell, comic book writer at DC and writer for the revived Doctor Who (and the novels that preceded it), linked to my review of his superb run on Action Comics. It’s one of the truly great modern comic book runs, and wholeheartedly recommended, but it’s just really, really cool to have Mr. Cornell acknowledge the review. At the risk of gushing, he’s a writer that I’ve been following ever since I caught a repeat of Father’s Day, which was the episode that convinced me that Doctor Who was well worth my time. So, the idea that the guy somehow innocuously clicked on to this blog made my week.

So, yep, at the risk of geeking, it was an awesome month.

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