Just the Ticket

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. The banner for today's review looks the way it does because I don't care enough about this movie to make a bigger effort. For the 187th issue of Just the Ticket , I could have been reviewing 187 with Samuel L. Jackson . But instead, I had to force myself to watch Curse III: Blood Sacrifice , the second "sequel" in what someone with a saintly amount of generosity might call an "anthology series" if they didn't know any better. It took me six sittings of boredom, annoyance, boredom, social discomfort, boredom, confusion, and boredom (because I don't care enough to count correctly, either, and it was boring), but here we are. Originally titled Panga (the backwards machete, not the Kaizo Mario YouTuber ), 1991's  Blood Sacrifice can be blamed on director, screenwriter, and Star Wars: Return Of the Jedi editor Sean Barton , with accounting by Burger & Fry (yes, I'm serious). It's a tu...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster Returns. I have nothing of preamble to say other than to express my gratitude that I'm not overloaded with extra content and life pressures this week, so I don't have to rush with this review. Continuing from one of the worst-written, most oddly drawn, disconnected issues I can remember , the Zenescope team come into their seventy-fifth mainline issue in peak form, and it is a special one, folks! GFT #75: The Return Zenescope isn't just bringing it with their writing (the usual executive team of Brusha , Tedesco , and Gregory , but they're on blast like I haven't seen or felt since Fear Not ) and interiors this time ( A Drink And A Tale penciler Sheldon Goh , and first-time Zenescope colorist Felipe Gaona , who would later contribute to an issue of the Wonderland Ongoing series), they're rocking ten covers for this one, as well. Starting on the left, we have  J. Scott Campbell  and  Nei Ruffino 's milest...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of July 20, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. I hate my brain this week, Ticketholders! After Tuesday's review of Poker Face , I haven't been able to get Blues Traveler's "Hook" out of my head. Add that to the abundance of energy beverages and caffeine I've been ingesting so I can force myself to consume, produce, and promote content on the regular around my new work schedule, the heat, my days off not really being days off because adulting still needs to be done on top of that, and my sudden cravings for food that isn't good for me, and yeah, my brain is an overstimulated, volatile, but numb and exhausted ball of goo and chemicals this week. Thank you all for listening. The good news is that I can still afford to live somewhat comfortably for another week, and  my future plans for  Just the Ticket  haven't changed much. What  has  changed since last week is that I am currently almost finished watchin...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. In my Martial Law ( Mission Of Justice and Martial Outlaw ) and Last Horror Film reviews, I talked about the tendency of distribution companies of the era to rebrand similar but unrelated movies as in-name-only sequels to their more popular films to boost circulation and profits for stakeholders. While I understand the purpose of the practice, and (in these years following the recent SAG-AFTRA strike) I sympathize with the need for the end result, it is still a quasi-illegal act of deception: an (at the time) industry-accepted act of international fraud. It's like bundling Final Destination: Bloodlines with a penny, a game of Mouse Trap , and a G-1 Optimus Prime full of Lincoln Logs and calling it the 4D Experience Special Edition . Or doing Barb enheimer on purpose and calling one of them a sequel to the other. Sure, you get to experience a bunch of cool stuff of varying quality that you otherwise wouldn't, but the pac...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. Sadly, today marks the end of Winter In Summer , Ticketholders! I sincerely hope that I have in some small way helped distract you from the triple-digit heat over this past month, and I'm looking forward to the summer fun that is to come in the near future of the Retrospective because there is some real deus -ass-crackina writing in this week's issue up for review. I promise to make an attempt at being kind on a sliding scale because I'm currently too sweaty and exhausted to be the peak savage that dwells in my heart. GFT #74: Winter's End Starting off, we have a rare treat in a  Stjepan Šejić  cover that doesn't feature bondage or choking. And it beautifully captures Sela tapping into her powers, which she does a few times this issue, so bonus points for being relevant to the plot. Then we have the  Rich Bonk  cover with  Ramon Ignacio Bunge  on colors as well as interior colors. It probably fits the p...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. I grew up on procedural crime shows, Ticketholders! I know I've said that about a lot of things over these past years: Power Rangers , Dragon Ball , R-Rated movies, Saturday morning cartoons, WWE,...; it's a sad thing to admit, but between homework and chores, my goal as a child- cum -young adult was to consume as much media as possible so that I would have things to talk about with people my own age. I didn't have stable friends; I had people I invited over to help me beat video games and be jealous of my toys. I had acquaintances and groups that I obliviously inserted myself into as "pop culture reference guy." I wasn't a child or a teenager or a college student (especially not that last part my first time around); I was a tagalong puppy desperate for scraps of attention, a know-it-all who didn't know how to do the one thing that matters in life. To this day, I give my all to whatever brings me joy unti...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of July 13, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. I struggle to say anything new that I didn't say last week because my work schedule is still packed, my future plans for  Just the Ticket  haven't changed much, the world continues to be what it has become, and I am continuing my daily-to-weekly fights against weeds, insomnia, Balatro , and summer temperatures. What has changed since last week is that I am currently almost finished rewatching Season Seven of  My Hero Academia , which means I am on track (provided I watch the other two movies and all of Vigilantes within the next two weeks) to post the MHA Update on the first Monday of August, which also means that Friday's Just the Ticket (for reasons I mentioned last week) will be  Akira ! And because I just finished watching the season (series?) finale of  Poker Face , you'll see below that I  have a new  Stay Tuned  planned for...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster My Ticketholders know that this all began because of research I did for my Grimm Fairy Tales Retrospective on the Curse Of the Winter Witch issue, where I was looking up things with "Curse" in the title. And of course, today's movie up for review (which I'd forgotten that I heard of before in an episode of Horror Timelines ) led me to H.P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out Of Space , which I reviewed on Tuesday. First of all, I love this poster! It's perfectly 80s in its cheese factor and epicness. Second, The Curse (1987) —not to be confused with the comedy series of the same title from 2023 —was directed by David Keith (the white guy from Firestarter and the awful Epoch movies, not to be confused with Keith David from The Thing and Men At Work ). Third, there's a link to Uncle Sam because Lucio Fulci was an associate producer on this and did some uncredited filming (though he's listed in the open...