Weekend Favs February 8th written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but I encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting.…

While we’re all wringing our hands about the identity of the next James Bond, a new video has resurfaced online showing a potential 007 of the past. The clip from 2006 shows Henry Cavill running through lines from GoldenEye as part of a screen test for Casino Royale. Cavill’s lines recreate the first meeting between…

On February 7, 1497, Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola and his followers burned objects of art and pieces of literature in the public square of Florence, Italy. Decrying these objects as distractions that turn the people’s attention from God, they called the pyre “the Bonfire of the Vanities.” The phrase has been used time and again…

Vertical lines and black and white stripes. Sullen expressions and pallid skin tones. Disheveled hair and often handcrafted special effects. There are certain staples and motifs that recur in the works of Tim Burton. So much so that 40 years after his directorial career began, Burton’s films remain instantly recognizable and a good gateway to…

In the ‘90s, there was a stark line between console and PC gaming. Many games that first released on PC never received console ports (and vice versa), and most PC titles were built exclusively for a mouse and keyboard. These early PC games were also notoriously finnicky to install, and there was much less information…

Marvel action figures are a dime a dozen. Whatever your price point, collection size, shelf space, you name it, there is a Marvel figure out there somewhere for you. But if you’re looking for something genuinely deluxe that stands above the rest—the cream of the crop, if you will—look no further than Hot Toys, and…

The entertainment heralds from VIZIO WatchFree+ have queued up a month’s worth of free Hollywood blockbusters to keep your binge list overflowing in February! WatchFree+ has thousands of free premium movies and shows that can be streamed on demand on VIZIO TVs, or anyone can enjoy titles like these and more using the VIZIO mobile…

Few people have a better understanding of what it means to steward a Marvel TV series in the Disney+ streaming era than Jac Schaeffer. Assisted by some pandemic-related schedule juggling, it was the Schaeffer-created WandaVision that served as the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s televised opening act in early 2021. The New Jersey-born, California-raised writer and producer…

On February 7, 1497, Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola and his followers burned objects of art and pieces of literature in the public square of Florence, Italy. Decrying these objects as distractions that turn the people’s attention from God, they called the pyre “the Bonfire of the Vanities.” The phrase has been used time and again…