TRASH IN MY EYE Reviews: Netflix

Showing posts with label Netflix. Show all posts

Saturday, December 6, 2025

Review: He Probably Thinks "GLASS ONION" is About Him

TRASH IN MY EYE No. 42 of 2025 (No. 2048) by Leroy Douresseaux

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

Running time: 139 minutes (2 hours, 19 minutes)

Rating: MPA – PG-13 for strong language, some violence, sexual material, and drug content

WRITER/DIRECTOR: Rian Johnson

PRODUCERS: Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Steve Yedlin (D.o.P.)

EDITOR: Bob Ducsay

COMPOSER: Nathan Johnson

Academy Award nominee

MYSTERY/COMEDY

Starring: Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monae, Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom, Jr., Dave Bautista, Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Noah Segan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Ethan Hawke, Hugh Grant, and Serena Williams

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a 2022 mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It is the sequel to the 2019 film, Knives Out. The film is a “Netflix Original,” which began streaming on the service December 23, 2022, after a brief and limited theatrical release in November 2022. Glass Onion finds Detective Benoit Blanc on the case of a tech billionaire who invites his cronies to his private Greek island to play a murder mystery game that results in an actual murder.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery takes place in May 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Miles Bron (Edward Norton), the co-founder of the technology company, “Alpha,” is hosting a murder mystery game at “the Glass Onion,” his mansion on a private island in Greece. He sends invitations via intricate puzzle boxes to his friends, a group he called “the Disruptors.” They are a diverse group: Alpha head scientist, Lionel Toussaint (Leslie Odom, Jr.), Connecticut governor, Claire Debella (Kathryn Hahn); controversial model-turned-fashion designer, Birdie Jay (Kate Hudson); and men's rights streamer and podcaster, Duke Cody (Dave Bautista).

There are two surprise guests to the island. The first is ousted Alpha co-founder, Cassandra “Andi” Brand (Janelle Monae), who is estranged from Miles and the other Disruptors. The second is world-famous private detective, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig). In Miles murder mystery, he is the victim, and his guests have two days to solve his murder, but the arrival of Andi and Benoit are unexpected complications. Things really get crazy when someone really ends up dead. Can Benoit Blanc solve a murder when not everyone is who he or she is supposed to be?

Rian Johnson's 2019 whodunit, Knives Out, starts out with an excellent screenplay. It offers an exercise in private eye genre elements and mystery fiction trappings played out with wild twists and turns and with a cast of lovably eccentric characters. Knives Out is similar to and inspired by the works of the grand dame of mystery fiction, the late Agatha Christie (1890-1976), who also offered assemblages of intriguing outlandish and unconventional characters. Knives Out's gold is in the characters, the type that character actors can use to chew up movie scenery.

Glass Onion does the same, but not to the extent of its predecessor. Glass Onion offers unconventional characters, but Glass Onion's treasure is in Daniel Craig's Mr. Blanc and Janelle Monae's Ms. Bland. Glass Onion is a process of the team of Blanc and Bland sneaking and snooping around Miles Bron's paradise lost island. Blanc's supernatural attentiveness and Bland's unforgiving relentlessness are the spine of Glass Onion. They pick apart the secrets and lies of the other characters until the liars are exposed and shamed and their guilt laid bare.

Both Craig and Monae should have received more award nominations than they did during the 2022-23 movie award season. Still, this movie is a testament to their talents at creating endearing characters. Kate Hudson also chews up quite a bit of scenery as the firecracker Birdie Jay, a character who deserves another spin at the cinematic wheel. As Miles Bron, Edward Norton does the best allegorical skewering of Elon Musk outside of comedian Alex Biron.

I really enjoyed Glass Onion, although it is probably at least 10 minutes too long. I laughed a lot, and the cathartic ending was a sweet sensation. I watched Glass Onion in anticipation of the December 12, 2025 Netflix debut of the third Benoit Blanc film, Wake Up Dead Man. However, I got more than I expected from this film because overall Rian Johnson created a superb mystery film series that is its own thing in spite of what inspired it. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is like fine crystal. As a whodunit, it sparkles brilliantly.

8 of 10

★★★★ out of 4 stars

Saturday, December 6, 2025

NOTES:

2023 Academy Awards, USA: 1 nomination: “Best Adapted Screenplay” (Rian Johnson)

2023 Golden Globes, USA: 2 nominations: “Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy” and “Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy” (Daniel Craig)

--------------------------

Comics Review: "NEMESIS FOREVER #4" - The Devil You Say

NEMESIS FOREVER #4 (OF 5)

DARK HORSE COMICS

STORY: Mark Millar

ART: Mateo Scalera

COLORS: Giovanna Niro with Sabrina del Grosso

LETTERS: Clem Robins

EDITOR: Sarah Unwin

COVER: Matteo Scalera with Giovanna Niro

VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Matteo Scalera

32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (December 2025) on-sale: Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Age range: 18+

Nemesis created by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven

Nemesis Forever is a five-issue comic book miniseries from writer Mark Millar and publisher Dark Horse Comics. It is a sequel to the miniseries, Nemesis Reloaded (2023) and Nemesis Rogues' Gallery (2024). Besides Millar, the rest of the creative team is comprised of Matteo Scalera (artist); Giovanna Niro (colors); and Clem Robins (letters).

Nemesis Forever finds that Nemesis, the world’s most dangerous man, has now made himself into one of the richest. No longer content just to terrorize the forces of law and order, Nemesis has a new plan: seize control of the world itself and enslave humanity with super-technology. For now, Kitty Tepper a.k.a. Sofie Stein, a CIA deep undercover agent, may be the only person who can impede Nemesis... at least a little.

Nemesis Forever #4 opens in Hamburg, Germany. There, “the Bundespolizei” (Germany's Federal Police Force) has captured Nemesis and has him in custody. Of course, having Nemesis in custody and keeping him in custody are two wildly different things. And holding onto the world's most dangerous man is made even more difficult because he has released a highly-lethal poison gas into the surrounding area.

Still, if Nemesis is going to bring humanity to its knees, he will need the help of his Satanic sect, the Temple of Hanpa, even more. But what will it cost him?

Meanwhile, ensconced with her fellow members of the Nemesis terrorist cell, “Nemesis HQ Number 5,” Kitty is making some shocking discoveries about who Nemesis is and what he is doing. At the same time, she wonders if her cover has been blown.

THE LOWDOWN: This is the second time that I have been on any kind of list that provides PDF copies of titles published by Dark Horse Comics. Nemesis Forever #4 is the latest PDF that I have received.

Nemesis Forever #4 is a killer penultimate issue, and writer Mark Millar fills this issue with explosive scenes that are obviously meant to set up a final issue that may be apocalyptic. In addition, Millar sets aside some pages in this issue to take us into the darkest corners of Nemesis' faith … if I can call that a faith.

Illustrator Matteo Scalera and colorist Giovanna Niro continue to produce some of the prettiest art to appear in a superhero (kind of) comic book in several years. Scalera and Niro's Nemesis is a bombshell of beauty and brutality, and the resulting storytelling is visually and graphically gripping. I must also shout out letterer Clem Robins. He does not let himself get left behind because his lettering is as tight as ever.

Dear readers, let us prepare for a truly crazy ending.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar's comic books of his Nemesis series will desire Nemesis Forever.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

There is a Kindle edition of "NEMESIS FOREVER #4" available at Amazon. The trade collection paperback collection of the series is due in May 2026 and can currently be preordered at Amazon.

https://www.mrmarkmillar.com/

https://x.com/netflix

http://www.millarworld.tv/

https://www.darkhorse.com/

https://x.com/darkhorsecomics/

https://www.facebook.com/darkhorsecomics/

https://www.instagram.com/DarkHorseComics/

-------------------

Amazon wants me to inform/remind you that any affiliate links found on this page are PAID ADS, but I technically only get paid (eventually) if you click on affiliate links like these, BOOKS PAGE, GRAPHIC NOVELS, or MANGA PAGE and BUY something(s).

Negromancer News Bits and Bites from December 1st to 6th, 2025 - UPDATE #11

by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

You can support Leroy via Paypal or on Patreon:

Amazon wants me to inform/remind you that any affiliate links found on this page are PAID ADS, but I technically only get paid (eventually) if you click on affiliate links like this, MOVIES PAGE, and BUY something(s).

TREATS: From AnotherCookie?: There is a new online cookie retailer, "AnotherCookie?" The cookies are delicious.

-------------------

NEWS:

NETFLIX:

From Deadline: Netflix is officially buying Warner Bros. Discovery for a total enterprise value of $82.7 billion. Netflix is paying $27.75 a share for the venerable Hollywood studio, with a total equity value of $72 billion dollars. Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO, subject to regulatory conditions – of which there will be several. The deal will follow after WBD’s global networks division, Discovery Global, spins out into a new publicly-traded company, a move that is now expected to happen in the third quarter of 2026.

From AP: Lindsey Bahr of the Associated Press discusses "What Netflix's acquisition of Warner Bros. means for the movies."

MOVIES - From THR: Sony Pictures is developing a new film in its "Men in Black" franchise. Chris Bremner is working on a script, but there is so far no director or cast members named.

TELEVISION - From THR: Sky 1 and Das Erste's ground period drama, "Babylon Berlin." has wrapped up production on its fifth and final season. The neo-noir series will close with a final 8-episode arc leading up to the Nazis seizing power in Germany in 1933.

MOVIES - From Deadline: Universal Pictures has acquired "Portrait of God," a spec script from emerging filmmaker Dylan Clark. The script, which is written by Clark and Joe Russo, expands on the world of Clark's viral horror short of the same name. The film is will mark the first collaboration of producers Sam Raimi and Jordan Peele, two of the biggest names in horror, who have never before worked together.

OBITS:

From Deadline: The Japanese-born American film and television actor and producer, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, has died at the age of 75, Thursday, December 4, 2025. He is best known for the role of "Shang Tsung" in "Mortal Kombat" (1995). Tagawa also appeared in such films as "The Last Emperor" (1987), "Rising Sun" (1993), "The Phantom" (1996), "Pearl Harbor" (2001), and "Memoirs of the Geisha" (2005), and "47 Ronin" (2013), to name a few. He appeared in such TV series as "Nash Bridges" (1996-97), "The Man in the High Castle" (2015-18), and Netflix's "Lost in Space" (2018-21), to name a few.

From ESPN: Former professional basketball player, Elden Campbell, has died at the age of 57, Tuesday, December 2, 2025. Campbell left Clemson University as an all-time school great. His all-time 1880 career points is still the school record. Campbell was drafted as the 27th pick of the first round of the 1990 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Lakers, where he spent the first nine years of his career. Campbell won an NBA Championship as a member of the 2003-04 Detroit Pistons.

-----------

MOVIE AWARDS 2025-26:

From AwardsWatch: The Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) has announced the nominations for the 2025 SFCS Awards. Director Ryan Coogler's "Sinners" leads with a record-tying 14 nominations. Eventual "Best Picture" Oscar winner, "Everything Everywhere All At Once," received 14 nominations in 2022. The winners will be announced Monday, December 15, 2025.

From AwardsWatch: The 2025 / 9th Atlanta Film Critics Circle has announced its winners. "One Battle After Another" picks up seven wins, including "Best Film," "Best Director" (Paul Thomas Anderson), and "Best Actor" (Leonardo DiCaprio).

From Variety: The winners of the 2025 / 91st New York Film Critics Circle Awards have been announced. Director Paul Thomas Anderson's film, "One Battle After Another" wins "Best Film." The awards will be handed out at a gala ceremony on January 6, 2026 at "Tao Downtown" in New York City.

From Deadline: The winners at the 2025 / 35th Annual Gotham Awards have been announced. Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s "One Battle After Another" won "Best Feature." Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and his Palme d’Or winner, "It Was Just An Accident" were the big winners, picking up "Best International Feature," "Best Director," and "Original Screenplay."

From AwardsWatch: Twenty films have made crossed the first hurdle in the race for the "Best Visual Effects" Oscar. Those films include "Avatar: Fire and Ash," "Captain America: Brave New World," "Frankenstein," and "Sinners." In a little under two weeks, those 20 will be cut down to 10.

From AwardsWatch: The site has a list of all 322 films eligible for Oscar consideration in the animated, documentary, and international film categories.

From THR: The nominations for the 2026 / 38th European Film Awards have been announced. the winners will be announced at the 38th European Film Awards ceremony, which takes place January 17, 2026.

From Deadline: Last week (Oct. 14th), the European Film Academy shortlisted the 67 films were available to receive nominations for the 38th European Film Awards, taking place on January 17, 2026. The shortlist included 44 feature films, 15 documentary films, and eight animated feature films. Among the list of feature films were "Bugonia" and "Sound of Falling." The nominations are scheduled to be announced today (Oct. 18th).

From THR: The nominations for the 2025 / 35th Annual Gotham Films Awards have been announced. Director Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" tops the list of nominees with a record six nominations, including "Best Feature" and "Best Director" for Anderson. The winners will be announced December 1, 2025.

BEST PICTURE TRACKER:

"One Battle After Another" (3): Atlanta Film Critics Circle; Gotham Awards; New York Film Critics Circle

Sunday, November 30, 2025

Negromancer News Bits and Bites from November 23rd to 30th, 2025 - UPDATE #11

by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

You can support Leroy via Paypal or on Patreon:

TREATS: From AnotherCookie?: There is a new online cookie retailer, "AnotherCookie?" The cookies are delicious.

-------------------

NEWS:

BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 11/28 to 11/30/2025 weekend box office is Disney's "Zootopia 2" with an estimated gross of 96.8 million dollars.

MOVIES - From THR: Scarlett Johansson will star in director Mike Flanagan's reboot or re-imagining of the 1973 film "The Exorcist" for Universal and Blumhouse. This new film is an attempt to reviver "The Exorcist" franchise in the wake of Universal/Blumhouse's ill-fated film, "The Exorcist: Believer" (2023).

MOVIES - From Deadline: Apparently with a push from President Trump, "Rush Hour 4" is happening. Brett Ratner is returning to direct Jackie Chan (as Inspector Lee) and Chris Tucker (as Detective Carter) in the film. Paramount Pictures will distribute with Warner Bros.

NETFLIX - From Deadline: It’s been nearly two years since Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson announced he would be executive producing a documentary about imprisoned music impresario, Sean "Diddy" Combs. The project finally has a release date. The four-episode project titled "Sean Combs: The Reckoning" will drop globally on Netflix on December 2, 2025.

BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 11/21 to 11/23/2025 weekend box office is Universal Pictures' "Wicked: For Good" with an estimated total of $150 million dollars.

MOVIES - From Variety: Grammy-winning rapper, Kendrick Lamar, and "South Park" creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, are working on a live-action comedy. The movie will not meet its March 20, 2026 and is on indefinite delay. Lamar says they are working hard on the film.

OBITS:

From Variety: The Czech-born, English playwright and screenwriter, Tom Stoppard, has died at the age of 88, November 2025. Stoppard was nominated eight times for the "Best Play" Tony Award, and he won five times, including for "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" (1968). He was twice nominated for the "Best Original Screenplay" Oscar. He won for "Shakespeare in Love" (1998) and was nominated for "Brazil" (1985). He also received an Emmy nomination for his work on the BBC miniseries, "Parade's End" (2012-13).

From Deadline: Former American child actor, John Eimen, has died at the age of 76, Friday, November 21, 2025. Eimen's career ran from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s during a time fans consider the "classic TV era." Eimen is best known for the role of "Cadet Monk Roberts" in the former NBC children's sitcom, "McKeever and Company," appearing in 11 episodes. Eimen appearances in such classic 50s and 60s television series as "Have Gun - Will Travel," "Leave It to Beaver," "Petticoat Junction," "The Twilight Zone," and "Wagon Train," to name a few.

From Reuters: Jamaican multi-instrumentalist, musician, singers, songwriter, and actor, Jimmy Cliff, has died at the age of 81, Monday, November 24, 2025. Cliff was a legendary Jamaican singer who, along with Bob Marley, popularized the Jamaican music genres: reggae, ska and rocksteady music, doing so over a six decade career. Cliff's best known songs include "You Can Get It If You Really Want" (1970), "The Harder They Come" (1972), and also for two covers songs he did: Cat Stevens' "Wild World" (1970) and Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now" (1993). Cliff starred in the 1972 Jamaican crime film, "The Harder They Come," which helped popularize reggae worldwide through its soundtrack. He was inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" in 2010. He was a a seven-time Grammy Awards nominee and won twice. Cliff's wife, Latifa Chambers, announced his death on Facebook on Monday.

------------------

MOVIE AWARDS 2025-26:

From AwardsWatch: Twenty films have made crossed the first hurdle in the race for the "Best Visual Effects" Oscar. Those films include "Avatar: Fire and Ash," "Captain America: Brave New World," "Frankenstein," and "Sinners." In a little under two weeks, those 20 will be cut down to 10.

From AwardsWatch: The site has a list of all 322 films eligible for Oscar consideration in the animated, documentary, and international film categories.

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Comics Review: "NEMESIS FOREVER #3" Meets Hubris

NEMESIS FOREVER #3 (OF 5)

DARK HORSE COMICS

STORY: Mark Millar

ART: Mateo Scalera

COLORS: Giovanna Niro with Laura Ciondolini

LETTERS: Clem Robins

EDITOR: Sarah Unwin

COVER: Matteo Scalera with Giovanna Niro

VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Matteo Scalera

32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (November 2025) on-sale: Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Age range: 18+

Nemesis created by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven

Nemesis Forever is a new five-issue comic book miniseries from writer Mark Millar and publisher Dark Horse Comics. It is a sequel to the miniseries, Nemesis Reloaded (2023) and Nemesis Rogues' Gallery (2024). Besides Millar, the rest of the creative team is comprised of Matteo Scalera (artist); Giovanna Niro (colors); and Clem Robins (letters).

Nemesis Forever #3 opens in Shafter Lake, Texas where Kitty has a big confrontation with a fellow member of the Nemesis terrorist cell, “Nemesis HQ Number 5.” Is she really ready to do the terrible things required of her, or is she willing to blow her cover?

Meanwhile, Nemesis, in his guise as billionaire tech bro, Hans Berg, is making merger moves on fellow tech innovator, Deepak Bharti, who really doesn't want to play. Nemesis has launched his biggest plan yet, but at the same time, an elite band of law enforcement is about to launch its most daring plan of action against him.

THE LOWDOWN: This is the second time that I have been on any kind of list that provides PDF copies of titles published by Dark Horse Comics. Nemesis Forever #3 is the latest PDF that I have received.

I usually take the time to praise writer Mark Millar in my reviews of Millarworld titles. As I did in my review of Issue #2, however, I want to focus on the art team of illustrator Matteo Scalera and colorist Giovanna Niro. They continue to produce some of the prettiest art to appear in a superhero (kind of) comic book in several years, and Scalera and Niro's Nemesis recalls the best of Millar's team-up with he-of-the-heavenly-hands, Frank Quitely. Scalera and Niro are doing some Frank Miller-Lynn Varley Elektra Lives Again-type shit here.

I must also throw it up to Clem Robins. He does not let himself get left behind because his lettering is as tight as ever. And of course, I still have to mention that Millar closes issue #3 with an all-time battle royale. Such a fight might show up in the second-to-last issue of a miniseries, but Millar drops this bond in the middle issue of his five-issue, hot-as-hell miniseries.

If this series is the final chapter of Nemesis' hell-raising (and it doesn't have to be, Mark), then Nemesis Forever will end it all in a blaze of fire and beautiful glory. You know you want this, dear readers.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar's comic books of his Nemesis series will desire Nemesis Forever.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

There is a Kindle edition of "NEMESIS FOREVER #3. The trade collection paperback collection of the series is due in May 2026 and can currently be preordered at Amazon.

https://www.mrmarkmillar.com/

https://x.com/mrmarkmillar

https://x.com/netflix

http://www.millarworld.tv/

https://www.darkhorse.com/

https://x.com/darkhorsecomics/

https://www.facebook.com/darkhorsecomics/

https://www.instagram.com/DarkHorseComics/

---------------------------

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Comics Review: "HUCK: BIG BAD WORLD #6" Fights the Power

HUCK: BIG BAD WORLD #6 (OF 6)

DARK HORSE COMICS/Netflix

STORY: Mark Millar

ART: Rafael Albuquerque

COLORS: Dave McCaig

LETTERS: Clem Robins

EDITOR: Daniel Chabon

COVER: Rafael Albuquerque

VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Rafael Albuquerque

32pp, Color, $6.99 U.S. (November 2025); November 5, 2025

Rated 18+

Huck created by Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque

Huck: Big Bad World is a new six-issue comic book miniseries created by writer Mark Millar and artist Rafael Albuquerque. Published by Dark Horse Comics, it is a sequel to the 2015-16 miniseries, Huck. Both series focus on Huck, an autistic man with extraordinary powers who tries to do one good deed every day. Colorist Dave McCaig and letterer Clem Robins complete the creative team.

In Huck Big Bad World, Huck, his mother, Anna Polina Marianna Kozar, and the mysterious Dr. Jack Harper were on a road trip with the goal of finding Harper's lost love, Sophia. The trio also wanted to find the other secret super-humans who have been hiding around the world. Now, Huck has found out why so many of these super-persons were smart to be in hiding.

Huck: Big Bad World #6 finds the Lucas Trust celebrating their recent success. This organization has been searching out people with super powers and neutralizing them for over 20 years. The organization's “Witch Finders” are on a killing spree, and they have reduced the number of super-persons to a few.

One of the survivors is Huck, but he is now more concerned about his pregnant girlfriend, Zoe Benson, and her son, Micah. Hiding in the woods most of the other people with remarkable abilities have been murdered, Huck is about to walk into a trap in order to save another super-person. Can the truth about “the old lady in the forest,” the mysterious figure who has given super-powers to random people around the world, save Huck and his new family?

THE LOWDOWN: This is the second time that I have been on any kind of list that provides PDF copies of titles published by Dark Horse Comics. The latest received is Huck: Big Bad World #6.

It should be no surprise that I am telling you again, dear readers, that a Mark Millar comic book is full of breathtaking surprises... because Huck: Big Bad World #6 is filled to the brim with breathtaking surprises, just as I said issue #5 was. This final issue of the second Huck series offers shocks and revelations, as well as spinning a shocking fate for mankind. This issue does not really set up a potential third series, but the events depicted in this issue certainly suggest the possibility of a humdinger of a next volume.

The creative team of Millar, Rafael Albuquerque, Dave McCaig, and Clem Robins deliver on the potential of this undeniably super series that issue #1 promised. Well, dear readers, the Huck: Big Bad Day trade paperback will give you a chance to discover the awesomeness that you missed.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar and of the first Huck series will want to try Huck: Big Bad World.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

There is a Kindle edition of HUCK: BIG BAD WORLD #6. The trade paperback of HUCK VOLUME 2: BIG BAD WORLD is due in February 2026, but is available for preorder from Amazon.

https://www.mrmarkmillar.com/

https://x.com/mrmarkmillar

https://x.com/netflix

http://www.millarworld.tv/

-------------------

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Review: "KPOP DEMON HUNTERS" - They Will, They Will Rock You!

TRASH IN MY EYE No. 38 of 2025 (No. 2044) by Leroy Douresseaux

KPop Demon Hunters (2025)

Running time: 95 minutes (1 hour, 35 minutes)

Rating: MPA – PG for action/violence, scary images, thematic elements, some suggestive material and brief language

DIRECTORS: Chris Appelhans and Maggie Kang

WRITERS: Danya Jimenez & Hannah McMechan and Chris Appelhans and Maggie Kanga; from a story by Maggie Kang

PRODUCER: Michelle L.M. Wong

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Gary H. Lee

EDITOR: Nathan Schauf

COMPOSER: Marcelo Zarvas

ANIMATION/MUSICAL/FANTASY

Starring: (voices) Adren Cho, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo, Ahn Hyo-seop, Yunjin Kim, Ken Jeong, Daniel Dae Kim,Liza Koshy, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami, Andrew Choi, and Lee Byung-hun

SUMMARY OF THE REVIEW:

KPop Demon Hunters is one of the best and most unusual animated musical films I have ever seen

Sterling characters, jukebox rocking music, and stellar animation make it a winner

KPop Demon Hunters will not only entertain its target audience – young viewers, but it will also capture that imaginations of older folk (like me) as well

KPop Demon Hunters is a 2025 American animated musical fantasy film from directors Chris Appelhans and Maggie Kang and produced by Sony Pictures Animation. The film is a “Netflix Original” and began streaming on the service June 20, 2025. It also received two-day limited theatrical release on August 23rd and 24th. KPop Demon Hunters focuses on the members of a world-renowned K-Pop girl group, who are also secret demon hunters, as they confront the rising popularity of a new boy band whose members are also demons.

KPop Demon Hunters is set in a world, where long ago, demons preyed on humans and fed the souls of humans to their ruler, Gwi-Ma (Lee Byung-hun). Eventually, three women became demon hunters and sealed the demons away with a magical barrier called the "Honmoon." The legacy of these women warriors continued across the generations. With each new generation, three new women arose and used their singing voices to maintain the Honmoon. The goal was and is to eventually strengthen the Honmoon into the “Golden Honmoon.” which is the final seal that would banish demons from the human world permanently. Also, when demons masquerade as humans, they can be identified by marks known as “demonic patterns.”

In the present day, the new generation of demon-hunting young women are the members of the K-pop girl group, “Huntrix” (stylized as “Huntr/x”). Huntrix is comprised of three young singers. Rumi (Arden Cho with Ejae providing Rumi's singing voice) is the lead singer, and her hunter's weapon is a “saingeom” sword. Mira (May Hong with Audrey Nuna providing Mira's singing voice) is the dancer and rapper, and her hunter's weapon is a “gokdo” polearm. Zoey (Ji-young Yoo with Rei Ami providing Zoey's singing voice) is the singer-songwriter, and her hunter's weapons are “shinkal” throwing knives.

One of the members of Huntrix has a dark secret. Rumi has a secret demon heritage, and she has demonic patterns that are slowing spreading over her body. Rumi's foster mother, Celine (Yunjin Kim), has told her that turning the Honmoon gold (the Golden Honmoon) would cause the erasure of her demonic patterns.

However, trouble arrives in the form of a new rivals in the world k-pop for Huntrix. In the demon world, Gwi-Ma has grown enraged at the failure of his minions to defeat Huntrix. He creates his own K-pop boy band, the “Saja Boys,” featuring four demons and a lead singer who is a former human named Jinu (Ahn Hyo-seop with Andrew Choi providing Jinu's sing voice). The Saja Boys begin to steal Huntrix's fans, but it is Jinu's affect on Rumi that could turn the fate of the world over to Gwi-Ma. And the “International Idol Awards” is where the final showdown will occur and where Rumi, Mira, and Zoey's fates will be decided.

Korean popular music or “K-pop” emerged in the 1990s in Korea and was heavenly influenced by American music, especially R&B, dance music, rock music, and, of course, rap and hip-hop. [In the 1980s, many white people insisted that rap was a fad, and now, hip-hop and rap, specifically, are omnipresent and influence music and culture all over the world.] I like K-pop, but I am really not a fan... yet. However, after watching the deliriously entertaining KPop Demon Hunters, I could become something of a fan.

The film's characters are an utter delight, and I found myself mesmerized by Huntrix's trio and by Juni. Juni's Saja Boys mates are also quite fetching – in their human forms. If fiction needs interesting characters, then, KPop Demon Hunters has that in an embarrassment of riches, thanks to sparkling voice performances and sterling singing voices.

Sony Pictures Animation basically always turns out high-quality computer-animated films. KPop Demon Hunters may be Sony's best animated film outside of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and its sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). In terms of character movement, backgrounds and environments, colors, and special effects, KPop Demon Hunters rivals the films of DreamWorks Animation, which is also known for vibrant and their visually rich worlds and for their expressive and emotional characters.

KPop Demon Hunters is a winner. I love it. Its unexpected and breakout success apparently made it Netflix's most-watched title ever. I highly recommend that you feel the music.

9 of 10

A+

Saturday, October 25, 2025

------------------

Monday, October 20, 2025

Comics Review: "NEMESIS FOREVER #2" Simply Has the Most Beautiful Art... and Violence

NEMESIS FOREVER #2 (OF 5)

DARK HORSE COMICS

STORY: Mark Millar

ART: Mateo Scalera

COLORS: Giovanna Niro with Laura Ciondolini

LETTERS: Clem Robins

EDITOR: Sarah Unwin

COVER: Matteo Scalera with Giovanna Niro

VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Matteo Scalera

32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (October 2025) on-sale: Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Age range: 18+

Nemesis created by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven

Nemesis Forever #2 opens in the wake of the devastation Nemesis unleashed on Singapore that killed three thousand people. Meanwhile, Sofie's infiltration of Nemesis HQ Number 5 takes her deeper into this particular lair of henchmen. However, Nemesis' current fake identity, that of tech billionaire, Hans Berg, has to deal with someone who has gotten too close to the truth about Hans.

THE LOWDOWN: This is the second time that I have been on any kind of list that provides PDF copies of titles published by Dark Horse Comics. Nemesis Forever #2 is the latest PDF that I have received.

I usually take the time to praise writer Mark Millar in my reviews of Millarworld titles. This time, however, I want to focus on the art team of illustrator Matteo Scalera and colorist Giovanna Niro. Here, they have produced some of the prettiest art to appear in comic books in several years, and Scalera and Niro's Nemesis recalls the best of the team of Mark Millar and Frank Quitely. Their depictions of Nemesis and of his Hans Berg identity are things of artistic beauty. It's like comics rococo, and once again, a Nemesis art team is finding the wicked beauty in a ruthless bad guy.

I must also throw it up to Clem Robins. He does not let himself get left behind because his lettering is as tight as ever.

If this is the final chapter of Nemesis' hell-raising (and it doesn't have to be, Mark), then Nemesis Forever will end it with fire and beauty. Your serve, dear readers, and I know you want good comic books.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar's comic books of his Nemesis series will desire Nemesis Forever.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

The Kindle edition of NEMESIS FOREVER #2 is available at Amazon. You can also preorder the NEMESIS FOREVER trade paperback collection, which is due in May 2026, at Amazon.

https://www.mrmarkmillar.com/

https://x.com/mrmarkmillar

https://x.com/netflix

http://www.millarworld.tv/

https://www.darkhorse.com/

https://x.com/darkhorsecomics/

https://www.facebook.com/darkhorsecomics/

https://www.instagram.com/DarkHorseComics/

------------------

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Comics Review: "HUCK: BIG BAD WORLD #5" Brings the Bad Guys Out

HUCK: BIG BAD WORLD #5 (OF 6)

DARK HORSE COMICS/Netflix

STORY: Mark Millar

ART: Rafael Albuquerque

COLORS: Dave McCaig

LETTERS: Clem Robins

EDITOR: Daniel Chabon

COVER: Rafael Albuquerque

VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Rafael Albuquerque

32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (October 2025); October 1, 2025

Rated 18+

Huck created by Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque

In Huck: Big Bad World, Huck, his mother, Anna Polina Marianna Kozar, and the mysterious Dr. Jack Harper are on a road trip with the goal of finding Harper's lost love, Sophia. The trio also wants to find the other secret super-humans who have been hiding around the world. Now, Huck is about to find out why so many of them were smart to be in hiding.

Huck: Big Bad World #5 introduces the Lucas Trust, an organization that has been searching out people with super powers and neutralizing them for over 20 years. Now, the organization's “Witch Finders” are on a killing spree. So many people with these special powers were in hiding because they were afraid of being found.

Huck has brought them into the open, so he has endangered himself and them. But has Huck unwittingly revealed a powerful new possessor of these super powers?

THE LOWDOWN: This is the second time that I have been on any kind of list that provides PDF copies of titles published by Dark Horse Comics. The latest received is Huck: Big Bad World #5.

It should be no surprise that I am telling you again, dear readers, that a Mark Millar comic book is full of breathtaking surprises... because Huck II #5 is. This issue is one of those penultimate comic book issues that makes returning one more time a must for comic book readers.

The storytelling by artist Rafael Albuquerque, by turns dark and hopeful, offers a balance of raw emotion and bracing violence. With Dave McCaig's coloring Albuquerque's art and storytelling sings out from places of both despair and hope. As always, the lettering by Clem Robins establishes moods and then embellishes those moods to the best affect.

Huck: Big Bad Day is undeniably a superb series. It is a great work on the way to an incredible conclusion. I'm here for it.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar and of the first Huck series will want to try Huck: Big Bad World.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

https://www.mrmarkmillar.com/

https://x.com/mrmarkmillar

https://x.com/netflix

http://www.millarworld.tv/

------------------------

Sunday, August 31, 2025

Negromancer News Bits and Bites from August 24th to 31st, 2025 - UPDATE #9

by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

You can support Leroy via Paypal or on Patreon:

TREATS: From AnotherCookie?: There is a new online cookie retailer, "AnotherCookie?" The cookies are delicious.

-------------------

NEWS:

BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 8/29 to 8/31/2025 weekend box office is Warner Bros. Pictures' "Weapons" with an estimated take of 10.2 million dollars.

MOVIES - From Deadline: Channing Tatum, Oscar Isaac, and Zazie Beetz are set to star in the New York crime story, "Kockroach," from director Matt Ross.

MOVIES - From THR: In NYC, the set of "The Devil Wears Prada 2" is plagued by professional photographs and movie fans looking for spoilers and first-look photos.

MOVIES - From Deadline: Joaquin Phoenix may have abandoned director Todd Haynes' 1930's-set gay drama, "De Noche," but now, Pedro Pascal is circling it.

MUSIC/SPORTS - From Variety: Grammy-winning recording artist, Taylor Swift, and NFL player and Super Bowl champion, Travis Kelce (Kansas City Chiefs), are engaged to marry.

NETFLIX - From Deadline: Netflix will not give a second season to "The Waterfront," the crime drama from creator-write-executive producer, Kevin Williamson (creator-writer of the "Scream" franchise).

BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 8/22 to 8/24/2025 weekend box office is Netflix's "KPop Demon Hunters Sing-Along Event" with an estimated 18 million dollars.

MOVIES/SPORTS - From Variety: Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired a spec script based on the dramatic true story of NBA legend Kobe Bryant joining the Los Angeles Lakers. The project comes from screenwriters, Alex Sohn and Gavin Johannsen. Star Thrower and Religion of Sports will produce the project.

OBITS:

From Deadline: American music producer, music supervisor, and music consultant, Joel Sill, has died at the age of 78, Saturday, August 23, 2025. Sill is best known for his work supervising music for films. He was the "executive in charge of music" for "An Officer and a Gentleman" (1982) and "Flashdance" (1983), both of which won the Oscar for "Best Original Song" for the respective years of release. Other films in which Sill was involved include "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), "Blade Runner" (1982), "La Bamba" (1987), and "Forrest Gump" (1994), to name a few.

From Deadline: American film and television actor, Jerry Adler, has died at the age of 96, Saturday, August 23, 2025. Adler is best known for his roles in such TV series as "The Sopranos" (HBO), "The Good Wife" (CBS), and "The Good Fight" (CBS All-Access), to name a few. His film roles included "The Public Eye" (1992), Woody Allen's "Manhattan Murder Myster" (1993), and "Prime" (2005). Adler was also a Broadway veteran, having worked as both a director and stage manager. Adler was born into the famed Adler family, which included his cousin, actress and legendary acting coach, Stella Adler.

Saturday, August 30, 2025

Comics Review: "HUCK: BIG BAD WORLD #4" Offers No Rest for the Weary

HUCK: BIG BAD WORLD #4 (OF 6)

DARK HORSE COMICS/Netflix

STORY: Mark Millar

ART: Rafael Albuquerque

COLORS: Dave McCaig

LETTERS: Clem Robins

EDITOR: Daniel Chabon

COVER: Rafael Albuquerque

VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Rafael Albuquerque

32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (August 2025)

Rated 18+

Huck created by Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque

Huck: Big Bad World is a new six-issue comic book miniseries created by writer Mark Millar and artist Rafael Albuquerque. Published by Dark Horse Comics, it is a sequel to the 2015-16 miniseries, Huck. Both series focus on Huck, an autistic man with extraordinary powers who tries to do one good deed every day. Colorist Dave McCaig and letterer Clem Robins complete the creative team.

In Huck Big Bad World, Huck, his mother, Anna Polina Marianna Kozar, and the mysterious Dr. Jack Harper are on a road trip with the goal of finding Harper's lost love, Sophia. The trio also wants to find the other secret super-humans who have been hiding around the world. But why are they in hiding, and what are they afraid of?

Huck: Big Bad World #4 opens in Montana, where Jack Harper is reunited with his Sophia who is living in hiding with her grandson, Kevin, who cannot control his powers. And Kevin's powers can be quite deadly. Huck and Anna say goodbye and return home to a painful reunion. Can Anna fix this as sinister forces gather around them?

THE LOWDOWN: This is the second time that I have been on any kind of list that provides PDF copies of titles published by Dark Horse Comics. The latest received is Huck: Big Bad World #4.

In both Huck series, writer Mark Millar has offered a narrative that is both charming and poignant, which is not something that genre comic books do very well. However, this forth issue of the second series opens with the quote, “We live out here so Kevin doesn't kill anyone.” And we're off on an adventure full of the shocks and surprises the kind at which Millar is golden.

The storytelling by artist Rafael Albuquerque, by turns dark and hopeful, is a mixture of both in unnerving ways. Albuquerque continues to make readers feel the emotions of the characters in this chapter, as he draws them into a spider's web of shock and awe. Dave McCaig's coloring continues to be outstanding at striking a balance between the light and the dark that finds humor and pathos in this offbeat series. As always, the lettering by Clem Robins establishes moods and then embellishes those moods to the best affect.

Huck: Big Bad Day is undeniably a superb series. It is a great work on the way to an incredible conclusion. I'm totally surprised at how good it is, so, dear readers, hop to it.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar and of the first Huck series will want to try Huck: Big Bad World.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

https://www.mrmarkmillar.com/

https://x.com/mrmarkmillar

https://x.com/netflix

http://www.millarworld.tv/

-------------------

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Comics Review: "NEMESIS FOREVER #1" Offers a Cap for the Entire World's Ass

NEMESIS FOREVER #1 (OF 5)

DARK HORSE COMICS

STORY: Mark Millar

ART: Mateo Scalera

COLORS: Giovanna Niro with Laura Ciondolini

LETTERS: Clem Robins

EDITOR: Sarah Unwin

COVER: Matteo Scalera with Giovanna Niro

VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Jae Lee with June Chung

32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (August 2025)

Age range: 18+

Nemesis created by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven

Nemesis Forever #1 opens in an apartment building on the Lower East Side of New York City. Nemesis, the world's greatest assassin, is a billionaire, and he is tired of terrorizing the hapless forces of law and order. His new plan is to wreak havoc on his enemies and seize control of the world itself, enslaving humanity with super-technology.

Now, a CIA undercover agent, Kitty Tepper, may be the only hope in leading the cause to stop Nemesis' mission hammer the world into submission. But the world's greatest assassin did not become the world's greatest assassin by not knowing real from fake...

THE LOWDOWN: This is the second time that I have been on any kind of list that provides PDF copies of titles published by Dark Horse Comics. Nemesis Forever #1 is the latest PDF that I have received.

I would not be surprised to learn that Nemesis is among Mark Millar's favorite creations, if not the favorite. It is obvious in the absolute glee with which Millar fashions a suite of unrelenting cruelty on the part of his anti-hero slash villain. In a way, Nemesis Forever recalls the opening of Millar and Steve McNiven's original Nemesis (2010) miniseries.

The always excellent Matteo Scalera creates the perfect graphical storytelling for the first issue. He brings Millar's script to life as a symphony of inhuman cruelty, and the art is just plain beautiful, also. Scalera's hypnotic art makes you feel the meanness and evil, and I'm not sure Millar's story would be as effective without Scalera's brilliance.

The coloring by Giovanna Niro heightens the sense of evil and immorality. Niro's colors truly convey the absolute sinister and depraved nature of Nemesis himself. As always, Clem Robins' elevates this comic book with a raging story of imagined sound and vision.

I didn't expect Nemesis Forever to be so good from the opening gun. This first issue draws first and last blood.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar's comic books of his Nemesis series will desire Nemesis Forever.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

A Kindle edition of NEMESIS FOREVER #1 is available at Amazon.

https://www.mrmarkmillar.com/

https://x.com/mrmarkmillar

https://x.com/netflix

http://www.millarworld.tv/

https://www.darkhorse.com/

https://x.com/darkhorsecomics/

https://www.facebook.com/darkhorsecomics/

https://www.instagram.com/DarkHorseComics/

----------------------------

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Negromancer News Bits and Bites from August 17th to 23rd, 2025 - UPDATE #7

by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

You can support Leroy via Paypal or on Patreon:

TREATS: From AnotherCookie?: There is a new online cookie retailer, "AnotherCookie?" The cookies are delicious.

-------------------

NEWS:

TELEVISION - From Variety: "Dexter: Origins" will not get a Season 2, although it was initially renewed. "Dexter: Resurrection" is getting its writers room ready for a Season 2.

MUSIC - From EW: TV and musical icon, Donny Osmond, talks about the "offensive" advice he once got from his friend, the late cultural icon and legendary entertainer, Michael Jackson.

MOVIES - From WorldofReel: There is a trailer for "Anemone," the first film starring Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis in eight years. The film is also the directorial debut of Daniel's son, Ronan Day-Lewis.

MOVIES - From Deadline: The cast of director Doug Liman's XR (Extended Reality) sci-fi thriller, "Asteroid." Among the cast is Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver, DK Metcalf (formerly of the Seattle Seahawks).

TELEVISION - From Variety: MSNBC will change its name to "MS Now" once it and several cable networks are separated from their corporate parent, NBCUniversal, into a new publicly traded company called "Versant."

BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 8/15 to 8/17/2025 weekend box office is Warner Bros' "Weapons" with an estimated take of 25 million dollars.

NETFLIX - From Deadline: Quentin Tarantino explains why he is not directing "The Adventures of Cliff Booth," a Netflix spinoff of his film, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." David Fincher is directing the film.

OBIT:

From Variety: The English actor, Terence Stamp, has died at the age of 87, Sunday, August 17, 2025. His breakout performance in the film, "Billy Budd" (1962), earned him an Oscar nomination for "Best Supporting Actor." Three years later, Stamp received a "Best Actor Award" at the Cannes Film Festival" for "The Collector" (1965). His best known film roles include "General Zod" in "Superman II" (1981), "Bernadette Bassenger" in "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (1994), "Wilson" in "The Limey" (1999), and "Supreme Chancellor Fenis Valorum" in "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" (1999).

Saturday, August 9, 2025

Comics Review: "HUCK: BIG BAD WORLD #3" The Gift That is a Curse

HUCK: BIG BAD WORLD #3

DARK HORSE COMICS/Netflix

STORY: Mark Millar

ART: Rafael Albuquerque

COLORS: Dave McCaig

LETTERS: Clem Robins

EDITOR: Daniel Chabon

COVER: Rafael Albuquerque

VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Rafael Albuquerque

32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (July 2025)

Rated 18+

Huck created by Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque

In Huck Big Bad World, Huck, his mother, Anna Polina Marianna Kozar, and the mysterious Dr. Jack Harper are on a road trip with the goal of finding Harper's lost love, Sophia. The trio also wants to find the other secret super-humans who have been hiding around the world. But why are they in hiding, and what are they afraid of?

Huck: Big Bad World #3 opens as Huck, Anna, and Jack try to track a young woman who literally cannot be tracked because she can see what is happening for one hundred miles. Among the other super-people they meet is a young woman who can bring pets that died before their time back to life. But there is one meeting with a super-person that will change everything.

THE LOWDOWN: This is the second time that I have been on any kind of list that provides PDF copies of titles published by Dark Horse Comics. The latest received is Huck: Big Bad World #3.

With this second Huck series, Mark Millar picks up where he left off in the original and also veers into darker territory that delves into the mysteries of other super-humans and their really creepy origins. While this third issue does what the second issue did – offer twists and turns, it also offers hope to those seemingly made hopeless by what they can do with their super powers. Miller shows a human side to what can be a heartbreaking angle of things beyond the natural.

The storytelling by artist Rafael Albuquerque, by turns dark and hopeful, is more hopeful in this third issue. Albuquerque made me feel the emotions of the characters in this chapter more than simply feel the exhilaration of the supernatural and of conflict. Dave McCaig's coloring continues to be outstanding at striking a balance between the light and the dark that finds humor and pathos in this offbeat series. As always, the lettering by Clem Robins establishes moods and then embellishes those moods to the best affect.

The first issue of Huck: Big Bad Day did not disappoint, and since then, the series has paid off on its promise of being something extraordinary. Dear readers, run to the store for Huck: Big Bad World.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar and of the first Huck series will want to try Huck: Big Bad World.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

The HUCK: BIG BAD WORLD trade paperback can pre-ordered at Amazon.

https://www.mrmarkmillar.com/

https://x.com/mrmarkmillar

https://x.com/netflix

http://www.millarworld.tv/

---------------------

Saturday, July 19, 2025

Negromancer News Bits and Bites from July 13th to 19th, 2025 - UPDATE #11

by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

You can support Leroy via Paypal or on Patreon:

TREATS: From AnotherCookie?: There is a new online cookie retailer, "AnotherCookie?" The cookies are delicious.

-------------------

NEWS:

TELEVISION - From Deadline: ABC has announced the premiere dates for its Fall 2025 television season. That includes a 8PM Eastern arrival for the flagship "9-1-1," and a 9 PM Eastern debut for its latest spinoff, "9-1-1 Nashville."

TELEVISION - From Variety: Talk show host Stephen Colbert announced that CBS is cancelling "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," with the last episode scheduled for May 2026. He also announced that CBS is ending "The Late Show" and won't replace it. Colbert has been hosting the show since 2015.

NETFLIX/ANIMATION - From Deadline: Netflix has produced a red-band trailer for "Fixed," the R-rated animated comedy film from director Genndy Tartakovsy ("Hotel Transylvania"). The film is about a randy dog named "Bull," who is about to get neutered.

EMMYS - From Deadline: The nominations of the 2025 / 77th Primetime Emmy Awards have been announced. The winners in 25 categories will be announced September 14, 2025, airing live on CBS and Paramount+. The corresponding Creative Arts Emmy winners will be announced during a two-night ceremony of September 6th and 7th, 2025. Apple TV+'s "Severance" led with 27 nominations.

From Variety: Days after celebrating his 83rd birthday, Harrison Ford, earns his first Primetime Emmy nomination, which is in the category "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series." He is the second oldest nominee in that category after the late Adam Arkin earned a nomination in 2020 at the age of 86.

TELEVISION - From Variety: HBO has provided a first-look of Nick Frost as "Rubeus Hagrid" in its upcoming "Harry Potter" television series.

MOVIES - From Deadline: Blumhouse has laid off six staffers across film, television, and casting in the wake of the box office disappointment of its most recent film, "M3GAN 2.0."

BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 7/11 to 7/13/2025 weekend box office is Warner Bros. Picture/DC Studios' Superman with an estimated take of 122 million dollars.

From Deadline: Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav celebrates a box office win with Superman saying that his is just the beginning for the "DC Universe."

STREAMING/ANIMATION - From Deadline: "South Park" and Paramount+ are involved in negotiations involving the rights to stream the series. That has led to the long-running animated series being removed from the international version of Paramount+.

OBITS:

From Deadline: American songwriter, Alan Bergman, had died at the age of 99, Thursday, July 18, 2025. Bergman was best known for his collaboration with his late wife, Marilyn Keith Bergman (1928-2022). The couple won three Oscars for the film music, including twice for "Best Original Song." The won two Grammy Awards, including "Song of the Year" (for "The Way We Were" with songwriter Marvin Hamlisch). The couple also wrote the theme songs for the television series, "The Sandy Duncan Show," and two former CBS sitcoms, "Maude" (1972-78), and its spinoff, "Good Times" (1974-79).

From Deadline: British television actress, Judy Loe, has died at the age of 78, Tuesday, July 15, 2025. Loe was a regular in such British TV series as "Ace of Wands," "Edward the Seventh," and "General Hospital" (not related to the American soap opera), to name a few. She was a guest in such series "Man at the Top," "Ripping Yarns," and "Inspector Morse," to name a few. Loe was also the mother of actress, Kate Beckinsale, best known for her role in the "Underworld" film franchise.

Monday, July 7, 2025

Advanced Comics Review: "THE MAGIC ORDER 5 #6" - Death Becomes Her

THE MAGIC ORDER V #6 (OF 6)

DARK HORSE COMICS/Netflix

STORY: Mark Millar

ART: Matteo Buffagni

COLORS: Giovanna Niro with Laura Ciondolini

LETTERS: Clem Robins

EDITOR: Daniel Chabon

EDITORIAL: Sarah Unwin

COVER: Matteo Buffagni with Giovanna Niro

VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Matteo Buffagni

32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (July 2025)

Rating: 18+

The Magic Order created by Mark Millar at Netflix

“The Death of Cordelia Moonstone”

The Magic Order 5 is a six-issue miniseries from writer Mark Millar and artist Matteo Buffagni. This is the fifth installment of The Magic Order series, which began with the 2018-19 miniseries written by Millar and drawn by Olivier Coipel. The Magic Order is a band of sorcerers, magicians, and wizards – with a focus on the Moonstone family and its leader, Cordelia Moonstone – that live ordinary lives by day, but protect humanity from darkness and monsters of impossible sizes by night. Colorist Giovanna Niro and letterer Clem Robins complete the series creative team.

The Magic Order 5 finds Cordelia preparing for her death – the punishment for using black magic (back in Volume 1). However, a new case has dropped itself in front of her, but it all may be a front for some really bad people trying to collect the price on Cordelia's head. Cordelia Moonstone is going to die soon... and there's nothing she can do about it. The end is coming in a matter of days.

The Magic Order 5 #6 opens in New Jersey where Cordelia battles Grandmaster Samuel Mott, leader of “the Fellowship of the Bell.” Mott is just a-wringing that “Bell,” which has summoned the Fellowship's ancient gods, a group of Lovecraftian monsters. And they are almost here.

The saga of The Magic Order concludes, and everything has been building towards “the death of Cordelia Moonstone.” When she goes, however, there won't be anyone left to protect the world from the forces of darkness that want to consume us. Can she bring The Magic Order together in time to save the world if not save herself?

THE LOWDOWN: This is the second time that I have been on any kind of list that provides PDF copies of titles published by Dark Horse Comics. The latest received is The Magic Order V #6.

It is possible for each issue of The Magic Order 5 to be crazier than the previous issue, but the sixth and final issue of this series is not about the possibilities of craziness, but it is about the destination. Perhaps, all previous issues of this franchise were about the journey, so now Issue #6 is about the grand finale and the big goodbye. The Magic Order is Mark Millar's best and most imaginative work, as far as I'm concerned, and along the way, his scripts became glorious comic book storytelling thanks to some really talented artists who brought The Magic Order to life.

Concerning The Magic Order V's brilliant artist-storyteller, Matteo Buffagni, I said the following in my review of Issue #5 of the series: “Line by line, artist Matteo Buffagni has created in The Magic Order V a world of such fearsome darkness, treacherous magic, and magical treachery that mesmerizes the reader.” That is true to the end. Buffagni unleashes the power and the glory, and the gorgeous hues of Giovanna Niro helps with the glory. As always, Clem Robins uses his lettering to create a soundtrack of destruction, but this time, he adds the sounds of resolution for this outro.

So this is the end of The Magic Order. Thanks to Mark Millar for this comic book that should serve as a model for DC Comics' Dr. Fate and Marvel Comics' Doctor Strange. Thanks to Matteo, Giovanna, and Clem for the super-graphics. Dear readers, if you have not read The Magic Order yet, I suggest do so now. Or you can invest in Dark Horse Comics' library editions of this series – one of the best comic books about magic ever.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar and of The Magic Order will want to read The Magic Order V.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

You can preorder THE MAGIC ORDER V trade paperback collection at Amazon.

https://www.mrmarkmillar.com/

https://x.com/mrmarkmillar

https://x.com/netflix

https://x.com/themagicorder

http://www.millarworld.tv/

https://www.darkhorse.com/

------------------------