I’ve said before on this site that the film genre I probably have the least amount of familiarity with is the Western. And it’s something that I’ve been trying to fix. I really love the aesthetic, I just haven’t had a lot of experience with the actual […]
One of my biggest blind-spots when it comes to the world of geekiness is certainly Star Trek. It’s right up there with X-Files and Twin Peaks as one of those things that I’ve always been meaning to get to, but never have. Not that there’s anything wrong with the […]
Sometimes it’s not easy being a geek. There are vocal minorities in the geek community that really make a bad name for the rest of us. There’s the psychotic DC fans who spew vitriol at anyone who dares say Batman v Superman was garbage, the morons who made […]
We’ve had a pretty crappy couple of months, haven’t we? The world seems like a total mess, in ways that seem even worse than they’ve been in my entire life. That’ll probably not shake out later, since I’m sure most times are crappy, but it sure seems like […]
I’ve been a voracious consumer of stories for my entire life. A whole lot of this site has been devoted to me talking about how much I love movies and the Simpsons, but one of the more obvious sources of stories that I don’t talk enough about is novels. […]
One of the biggest complaints about Hollywood is that there’s no originality anymore. People like to make fun of that fact that all Hollywood seems to be able to make is superhero movies, bad Nicholas Sparks romantic comedies, poorly thought out biopics, and all manner of terrible Michael […]
We got a rough one here folks! Normally I wait a little bit after seeing a movie in the theaters to write one of these, you know, compose my thoughts and come up with an interesting way to tackle it. But not this time. I just got out […]
There’s an episode of the amazing podcast How Did This Get Made about the ridiculous Deep Blue Sea where wonderful comedian Paul F Tompkins asks the question “what are the stats on shark movies? Still just the one good one?” And he’s got a point. There are a […]
Sequels are hard everybody. Because up until the Marvel Cinematic Universe started showing us that serialized storytelling can work in the movies. Really no one else other than Marvel has gotten this right, so right now the only option for sequels tend to be the typical format, which […]
I’ve discussed before on the site that I have a strong affinity for fantasy stories. I’ve kind of always been obsessed with them, and spent a large portion of my childhood tearing through terrible paperbacks of weird stories. I of course hit the mainstays, like the Chronicles of […]
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