Blu Ray Releases, CoastCon, and Me!

It’s A Wonderful Time To Be A Geek!

March is gearing up to be a majorly geeky month!  Black Panther is still dominating the box office (see my review of the film here).  The Shape of Water was nominated for thirteen awards at the 90th Academy Awards (wins included Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Music Score, and Best Production Design).  Images and video from the upcoming Shazam! film have been leaked.  CoastCon is coming up this weekend.  New comics are releasing, new Blu Ray releases are on the way……whew!

At the end of this month, the much loved, hated, and discussed Star Wars: The Last Jedi will be released on Blu Ray and DVD (3/27, available now as a digital download).  Justice League was released yesterday and Thor: Ragnarok has been available in stores since last Tuesday.  Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle is also coming out this month.

Of all of these releases, the one that I am most interested in is Jumanji.  Why?  Because it’s the only film in the bunch that I haven’t seen yet.  Thor underwhelmed me to no end.  You can read my thoughts on it here.  I enjoyed Justice League a lot more than most people did and posted my thoughts on it as well.  The Last Jedi was okay,  in my opinion.  There were definitely some bad choices made with the film, but overall it was a decent addition to the Star Wars legacy.

I do plan on picking up the Target release of Justice League, primarily due to the fact that it comes in a book and not with a bunch of gimmicky pins like the Walmart release does.  I’m usually a sucker for steelbook versions like Best Buy releases, but the Target version offers more content in my opinion.

Set photos and a video have been leaked from the new Shazam! film that will be released next year.  I love the fact that the costume is comic accurate for the Big Red Cheese.  Hopefully Zachary Levi can pull off the character.  I’ve read a lot about how people dislike that the costume appears to be padded.  The end result might be different, so I’m holding out hope that it will be done well for the film.  Mark Strong will portray Dr. Sivana, one of Shazam’s biggest baddies.

In other geeky good news, CoastCon will be celebrating the big Four One this weekend in beautiful Biloxi, MS.  This year’s guests include Bryce Papenbrook, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Damon Bowie, Kimberly Richardson, K.D. Wood, Preston Acevedo, Jessica Cox, Kathy Beauford, and many, many more wonderful people.  The Suzaku 7 will be providing some sweet and nerdy tunes as well.  Be sure to attend this great event if you have the chance!

Sadly, I won’t be able to attend CoastCon this year.  It truly hurts my heart to miss this event as it is often the only time of year that I get to see many of my friends from Mississippi and southeastern Louisiana.  Geek culture is a lot bigger and stronger than you might think along the Gulf Coast, and the success of conventions such as CoastCon are proof of that!

Thanks for reading my post.  March is gearing up to be one of the best geeky months of the year.  Hopefully the nerdy love train will keep rolling through the rest of 2018.  I’ll be attending CyPhaCon next month.  I’m going to apply for a press badge.  If approved, it will be the first pop culture event that I’ve ever attended as an official member of the press.  I’ve attended as a regular attendee, a special guest, as part of another convention, and as a member of a fan group over the years, but attending as a member of the press would be a first!

Hopefully I’ll see some of you on the convention circuit soon!