The Original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Comic

In 1984, I had just graduated high school when my brother Marc and I chose to go to Forbidden Planet in New York City on a Saturday excursion to pick up some comics and books. For those unfamiliar, the Strand Used Bookstore is across the street from Forbidden Planet. We would usually spend about $20 […]

Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes

CONTRIBUTING WRITER Lance The (OMG!) Obscure Movie Guy In a market that is so saturated with movies, tv shows, channels, networks, streamingservices etc. It’s easy to get lost in the vast ocean that is the entertainment industry, floating adrift like Wilson in Cast Away until you find yourself on a remote island like a character […]

THE CASE OF THE WHITECHAPEL VAMPIRE – A Sherlock Holmes MYSTERY

THE CASE OF THE WHITECHAPEL VAMPIRE (2002) is a Sherlock Holmes mystery produced by The Hallmark Channel and is the last of four Holmes films done by them. The producer was Irene Litinsky. It was directed by Rodney Gibbons who also wrote the screenplay. The film starred Matt Frewer, Kenneth Welsh, Cary Lawrence, and Tom Rack. […]

Women’s Empowerment: Reading Sanctum Potpourri #11

Reading Sanctum: Potpourri is one of our continuing features of quick cut book reviews to help you find some otherwise innocuous books that might have escaped your attention. As a huge library/book reader geek, I love sharing stories about the books I am reading. So, if you love books like I love books, then you […]

Women’s Empowerment: Hawkeye?

The Hawkeye TV show premiered on Disney in late November 2021 with the release of the first two episodes. I was ecstatic because this is a character deserving of cinematic exploration. I mean, he’s a family man, member of the Avengers, former leader of the Avengers West Coast married to a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, Bobbi […]

Women’s Empowerment: Z Nation

CONTRIBUTING WRITER Lance The (OMG!) Obscure Movie Guy When thinking of Women’s Empowerment, one would not usually land on a tv showcentralized on a Zombie Apocalypse. Some would say it’s obscure. Which for me, Lance The OMG, is the norm. But beyond all the zombies, cannibals, sadists, wannabe dictators, thieves, and murderers, you do find […]

Women’s Empowerment: Respectful Reel Review #26 — Enola Holmes (2020)

MOVIE TITLE: Enola Holmes IMDB YEAR RELEASED: 2020 GENRE: Young Adult / Mystery / Crime STARRING: Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin, Helena Bonham Carter, Louis Partridge, Burn Gorman, Adeel Akhtar, Susan Wokoma, Fiona Shaw DIRECTED BY: Harry Bradbeer SUMMARY: On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, Enola Homes, younger sister to Mycroft and […]

Women’s Empowerment: Unbelievable A True Story of Perseverance

CONTRIBUTING WRITERDILSIA MARTINEZ / LADY GEEK I couldn’t even begin to imagine how one survives rape. Rape is a sexual assault carried out against a person without that person’s consent, usually involving the use of physical force. Unbelievable is the story of Marie Adler a teenage rape victim who is tied up, gagged, and brutally raped […]

women’s empowerment: the no. 1 ladies detective agency

“I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.” THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY is a television comedy/drama/mystery series produced by the BBC and HBO. It is based on a best-selling series […]

Women’s Empowerment: Reading Sanctum #20

One of the reasons we celebrate Women’s Empowerment, here at the Mustache and the Beard, and all over the United States is that we recognize that Geekery is not just exclusive to men. Many properties would have you believe that. The Teen Titans is not one of those properties. In fact, one might argue that […]