A Certain Point of View: Were Star Wars’ Celebration News Fanfic? [FILM EDITORIAL]

Posted By JT Hanke on Apr 14, 2023 in Article, Article: Movies/Television, Creative Arts, Creative Arts: Films, Editorials, Editorials: Film, Editorials: Media, Featured, Origin: DGM Staff

It’s perhaps the worst kept secret in Hollywood that Kathleen Kennedy is on her way out from running LucasFilm, with most industry insiders believing her departure will be officially announced after the release of Indiana Jones 5.

So, with that in mind, what can we actually count on to remain true from this year’s celebration announcements in regards to new Star Wars’ films? We do our best to guesstimate for you!

Hollywood D&D: Potential Effects of the New Movie on the RPG [EDITORIAL] 

Posted By Annie the Philosopher on Mar 3, 2023 in Article, Article: Movies/Television, Creative Arts: Films, Editorials, Editorials: Film, Editorials: Gaming, Featured, Origin: DGM Staff

The upcoming release of the new Dungeons and Dragons movie has generated a lot of excitement among fans of the franchise. The movie, which is set to hit theaters at the end of this month, features a star-studded cast led by Chris Pine and promises to be a thrilling adventure that captures the spirit of the beloved tabletop RPG. But what impact will the movie have on the popularity of the game itself?

Redrawing Gender Boundaries: How Wonder Woman’s Box Office could help change Hollywood [EDITORIAL/ARTICLE]

Posted By JT Hanke on May 26, 2017 in Article, Article: Conventions/Gatherings, Article: Current Events/Awareness, Article: Movies/Television, Article: Philosophy/Outlook, Featured, Origin: DGM Staff, Type: Article (w/ Photos)

Many of our Goth Family know that I fight fiercely for the empowerment of women, not by diminishing men, but by arguing for the simple removal of artificial gender barriers like the glass ceiling and other cultural artifacts from the past. Without these barriers, the best person will (or at least, has a chance to) win out. We now are in a position where we can all help tear down these barriers and I believe it’s our duty to do so!

From Critic to Costar: A Nightmare Come True [RETROSPECTIVE/ARTICLE]

Posted By Reverend Leviathan on Dec 15, 2016 in Article, Article: Conventions/Gatherings, Article: Current Events/Awareness, Article: Etiquette/Socialization, Article: Movies/Television, Featured, Origin: DGM Staff

Hanging out at the Rotting Corpse Production table during ScareFest 2015 would prove to be a life-changing experience. A young actress by the name of Sonya Delormier asked if I would help to promote an upcoming Kentucky film called The Wicked One, and handed me a postcard-sized picture of the movie cover. Being a huge fan of independent horror films I was more than happy to spread the word. Never did I imagine I’d also end up being part of this slasher flick!

Editor’s Recut: The Star Wars Prequels Become Watchable [ARTICLE/VIDEO]

Posted By JT Hanke on Dec 11, 2015 in Article, Article: Books/Literature, Article: Games/Media, Article: Movies/Television, Featured, Origin: DGM Staff

With the Star Wars Episode VII coming our next week, if you’re like us, you’ve already watched through the Steelbooks of episodes IV, V, and VI! But wouldn’t it be great if somehow the prequels hadn’t sucked, so you could watch those too? If there had been an editor who could’ve told George Lucas ‘No’ on some of the bad ideas that made it into those films?

Blind Night: Could Netflix’ Daredevil become the most successful Comic Translation? [EDITORIAL/ARTICLE]

Posted By JT Hanke on Apr 15, 2015 in Article, Article: Books/Literature, Article: Games/Media, Article: Movies/Television, Editorials, Editorials: Comics, Editorials: Film, Editorials: TV, Featured

For those of us who love comics, the announcement that Marvel TV inked a four franchise deal with Netflix in 2013 to take some of their grittier properties and make TV shows out of them was a little confusing. Obviously, Rated R properties have no place in Marvel Studios new cinematic feature film universe which is decidedly PG-13, but would the Netflix shows be cheap, hokey takeoffs on these Marvel properties? (After all, Marvel TV’s own Agents of Shield on ABC has been hemorrhaging fans since its creation.)

Meta-Art: The New Face of Interactive Expression, Part 3 [ARTICLE]

Posted By JT Hanke on Feb 11, 2015 in Article, Article: Art/Theater, Article: Books/Literature, Article: Current Events/Awareness, Article: Games/Media, Article: Movies/Television, Creative Arts, Creative Arts: Films, Creative Arts: Multimedia, Creative Arts: Stories/Serials, Editorials, Editorials: Gaming, Featured

Due to the power of these sort of “meta-art” concepts, the draw of incredible, tense movies like The Game, Inside Man, and Ocean’s Eleven, and the popularity of things like LARPing, some companies, like Lexington, Kentucky’s The Breakout Games, have decided to see about bringing the metagames found in complex board games and video games and the scenarios reserved to for edge of your seat thriller films to real life! (There are other companies with similar types of offerings out there, so, if you’re not in the Kentucky area, you can likely find places like this in your area. I’m going into…

Meta-Art: The New Face of Interactive Expression, Part 2 [ARTICLE]

Posted By JT Hanke on Feb 4, 2015 in Article, Article: Art/Theater, Article: Books/Literature, Article: Current Events/Awareness, Article: Games/Media, Article: Movies/Television, Creative Arts, Creative Arts: Films, Creative Arts: Multimedia, Creative Arts: Stories/Serials, Editorials, Editorials: Gaming, Featured

When video games grew popular, it was assumed that people would play these animated games when they were children (when children already play a lot of games) and then grow out of them. But we began to learn that people didn’t grow out of them, but instead craved more complex mysteries and stories as they aged. This led to pivotal games like Myst and Rivven, which started the modern video game trend of well-created story and making your players use their brains, not just their reflexes. At the current rate of consumption of complex and morally challenging video games, in the near future…

Meta-Art: The New Face of Interactive Expression, Part 1 [ARTICLE]

Posted By JT Hanke on Jan 28, 2015 in Article, Article: Art/Theater, Article: Books/Literature, Article: Current Events/Awareness, Article: Games/Media, Article: Movies/Television, Creative Arts, Creative Arts: Films, Creative Arts: Multimedia, Creative Arts: Stories/Serials, Editorials, Editorials: Gaming, Featured

It’s hard to be a modern creative person without having been exposed to conversations about the “meta-game” or the “meta-content” that’s behind modern creative works. This is made all the more confusing due to the fact that the concept behind how it’s now use in New Media is a hybrid of the noun version of this word, the adjective version, and something else. The French have a phrase called “Je ne sais quoi” which literally translated means “I know not what”—as in, there’s something else about what I’m talking about, but I can’t put my finger on it. It would be appropriate…

Morganville Vampires brought to YouTube: Geek & Sundry Attempts Impossible [VIDEO]

Posted By JT Hanke on Jan 14, 2015 in Article, Article: Movies/Television, Creative Arts, Creative Arts: Films, Creative Arts: Stories/Serials, Featured, Geek & Sundry, MorganVille, Origin: DGM Staff, Playlists, Type: Article (w/ Videos), Type: Video

If you’ve read Rachel Caine’s interesting and slow-burn developing series, The Morganville Vampires, you probably never thought it could be brought to anything other than network TV. However, Geek & Sundry, after launching other original shows like Spellslingers, TableTop, and the Guild, decided to help bring the kickstarted campaign for film to their YouTube channel through the mini-medium of web-length episodes.