Gord's Comic/Graphic Novel Blog

Reviews of graphic novels and comics

Friday, April 30, 2010

video blog update: 4/29/10 Canucks/Blackhawks

April 29/10 Vlog episode 2 from Gord Locke on Vimeo.



Run time: 5:48 min. I break down the Canucks blackhawks series. I did an opening reviewing my new webcam but the total blog was very long , I want to aim to keep my blogs to 5-6 minutes.. 10 minutes max.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

My new video blog

So I'll be blogging here and on Vimeo from now on. I enjoy working with video stuff so I dont mind the extra effort into doing it. Im just a complete noob being on camera broadcasting myself on the net , Im not a public speaker so there's a lot I have to work on with my speech and dialogue. Hopefully I can start to tolerate myself.

Gordy's Video Blog from Gord Locke on Vimeo.



This was shot with my old Micro Webcam I bought in 2003 for 10 bucks along with one of those cheap labtec mics. This was hard to look at so I went out and picked up a new webcam which I will discuss in my next video blog.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Movie Review: Tod Browning's Freaks

I finally watched this 1933 classic I've been aching to see for years. This movie is so profound and lingering it superseded my expectations which I tried to keep nil. My curiosity for the eccentric oddities known as "circus freaks" was met in this film. It sounds rude of me to say that but its the truth and its our nature to be inquisite about "freaks".

Entirely casted with real life "oddities" , they came through with a brilliant performances despite not being actors. Their individual stories are a mix of tragedy to fondness to disturbed , just like "regular" people.

The plot is simplistic and yet so effective. A shallow gold digging primadonna acrobat named Cleopatra conspires with Hercules the strong man of the show to get the manager to marry her and then kill him to inherit all his money. The characters are mesmorizing and bizarre yet so compelling because they are real. You buy into them from the moment you see them.

Its not very long being a 1933 film but its a lovely film. Great example of less is more/better , resulted in a well made movie with a good story differenciated by the cast. I can see why this has the cult following it has caz I am part of this cult now.

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My name is Gord and I blog comic and graphic novel reviews for Horror Happy Hour. Im just a passionate fanboy since the glorious 80s. Im not a writer as you can tell with my butchering of the engrish language just love geeking it up with comics. Horror Happy Hour is a devoted group of horror enthusiasts started on Facebook , website to come.. and I do the comics commentary. Woot woot