That’s what Devon Franklin, Senior Vice President of Production for Columbia Tristar, said on Instagram (link). Any Masters of the Universe fans out there!? Mattel just sent me this vintage Ca...
Oh, Mattel, you almost had me. I innocently scrolled up Twitter to see what was shaking. Following a few links, I discovered what appears to be Mattel-made action figures of Keaton Batman. Havin...
https://www.poeghostal.com/2013/10/mattycollector-reveals-from-nycc.html
Note: This review contains spoilers. I’m a fan of director Guillermo del Toro. I didn’t really follow his movies attentively until after I saw Hellboy, which was my first exposure to the cha...
https://www.poeghostal.com/2013/07/movie-review-pacific-rim.html
Note: The movie’s been out for nearly a month now, so I’m not going to bother worrying about spoilers. If you haven’t seen the movie, don’t click on the jump. You’ve been warned. –PG ...
https://www.poeghostal.com/2012/08/movie-review-the-dark-knight-rises.html
In what has to be one of the strangest movie-related moves I can remember, Paramount has decided to push back G.I. Joe: Retaliation nearly a full year, to March 2013. The press release claims th...
I’m not that much of a G.I. Joe fan, but I respect it as one of the great 1980s toy properties. The first movie was terrible, but I’ve been watching the development of the second film with ca...
https://www.poeghostal.com/2011/08/the-rock-as-roadblock-roadrock.html
Saw Captain America with Dr. Mrs. Ghostal and Red Kryptonite this past weekend. I enjoyed it–more than Thor, and probably more than any Marvel flick since X-Men 2. We knew Joe Johnston could di...
https://www.poeghostal.com/2011/07/odds-n-ends-july-26-2010.html
I’ve resisted the urge to post every mildly amusing geek-related video I come across–and I’m sure 99% of you have already seen this–but it was too amazing not to post. That’s one hell o...
https://www.poeghostal.com/2009/08/the-ballad-of-g-i-joe.html
Use this post’s comment to discuss anything about the movie that doesn’t involve spoilers. If you want to discuss spoilers, please use this thread on the PGPoA forum.
https://www.poeghostal.com/2009/08/g-i-joe-rise-of-cobra-hits-theaters.html
Wow. Today’s Show and Tell is a doctoral dissertation on the action figure of Thud Butt from Hook. It’s written by Ben Leach, vintage toy enthusiast and frequent contributor to ToyFare magazi...
https://www.poeghostal.com/2009/06/show-and-tell-thud-butt-hook.html