Too Much Awesome

You just can’t keep a good plothole down, can you? I still love Dragon Ball Z, no matter how much I complain and how much I moan about it, but I’m compelled to continually find problems with the story, the characters, and the progression of the series. I consider a plothole anything that isn’t readily [...]

At the end of every year, every site posts their mandatory best of/worst of lists. One of my own new years resolutions was to get at least one of those done before too long. For today I have chosen to approach movies, so while our memories of 2011 are busy going from short term and [...]

Sherlock Holmes is back for another adventure, only this time instead of witnessing amazing sleuthing powers you’ll be treated to guns, explosions and a lot of running.

Today, we at Toy-TMA bid farewell to the fond memories of 2011 and look forward to a whole new year on the horizon. 2012, Year of Democratic elections, Disaster predictions, and the Dragon (gotta love the dragon). Will the year be dramatically dangerous, or disappointingly dismal? I don’t know. But in the mean time, it [...]

Vampires, zombies and pirates are all played out. It’s time for something new and fun: trolls.

Last week, I gave a crash course in how to appropriately cast a Hollywood adaptation of a popular franchise that originates in a separate medium than film. Well now I’m back, and as I promised and after giving it some thought, it is only fair that I now take my own shot at casting a [...]

Some say that Hollywood is running out of ideas, what with all the sequels, reboots, and adaptations in the makings this generation. Personally, I think there’s a lot more too it than that. Firstly, as an English major, I can confirm that humans have been retelling classic stories and myths since our earliest cultures. In fact, [...]

Cowboys and Aliens officially wins the award for the most awesome movie premise of the summer: take two of the most iconic action stars of this generation and the last, put them in a genre that has been practically begging for a comeback, sprinkle sci-fi onto it, and give helm to the director of one [...]

It has already been a whole year since we were given our first glance and a basic story premise for the continuation of Avatar The Last Airbender known as Legend of Korra, and from the sounds of it, it seems we got a whole other year of waiting on our hands before we see the [...]

By now, everyone knows all about the Avengers movie plans and how Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, and Captain America are all leading up to next year’s massive movie event. The first three films already came and went, and all three have thus far built the hype machine high (four films if you count Iron Man [...]