Folks, we’ve made it through another year. This is the third time that I’ve written one of these end of the year rankings, and it’s the third time you all are owed congratulations for getting through another incredibly rough year. Things just keep getting rougher and rougher, […]
If there’s one thing I can say about the DCEU, it’s that it always keeps me guessing. I have, pretty vocally, not been a fan of the DC films as of late. They’ve taken some of the greatest superheroes ever made and run them through a moody […]
It’s been a great couple years to be a fan of Spider-Man. The comics have been in pretty rare form, what with Dan Slott ending his stories tenure as the primary writer of our Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and Chip Zdarsky pushing Spider-Man and his interpersonal relationships into […]
Not everyone is going to have the same opinions on works of art. Even when there appears to be a really common consensus on a story, or a creator of stories, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s wrong if you personally don’t connect with them. Stories hit […]
It has been far too long since I last wrote about everyone’s favorite international super-spy, James Bond. After spending the entire month of July in 2017 talking about the James Bond franchise in all of its various permutations and forms of media, I decided to take a […]
Over the three decades the Simpsons have been on the air certain tertiary characters have become surprisingly frequent fodder for episodes. Character that you maybe wouldn’t think could sustain the shocking amount of episodes that revolve around them have managed to pull out pretty huge numbers. And one […]
In 2015 I walked into a film that I really had no idea what to expect from. It was Creed, and it absolutely blew me away, becoming one of my favorite films of the year, much to my shock. I’ve never been a Rocky guy. I’ve seen most of them, but […]
Earlier this year we were given a film that attempted to subvert the typical expectations of the heist genre simply by wonder “what if it was heist movie, but with women?” That movie was Ocean’s 8, and it was…fine. At the time I remember thinking it was surprisingly […]
Folks. I have good news for you today. For basically the first time this season I have an episode to share with you that didn’t result in active dislike. It’s far from perfect, but this is an episode I can actually say I enjoyed. Which, I’ve got to […]
Over the course of their illustrious career, the Coen Brothers have gained the reputation of being creators that are hard to figure out what they’re going to do next. Their films have a general aesthetic to them, but within that aesthetic they’re able to tell stories […]
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