I believe I’ve watched every single superhero/comic book movie ever made. I even looked it up. Even the unreleased “Fantastic Four” movie produced by Roger Corman and the terrible late-’70s “Captain America” took a spin through my VCR. After dozens (if not hundreds) of these movies, “Justice League” was the first one to give me […]
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Bingeworthy: October Spookiness
Feminist horror, the gods of America and the profoundly profane
Another week means another look at all the new and upcoming things that I think are downright neato. Yeah, I’m bringing neato back. In Pod We Trust: I f you feel like getting a little bit sociological with your October frights, the podcast, “Bloody Mary,” is an interesting place to start. There’s a false narrative […]
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Little Yellow People
Laughing at the Despicables
I don’t wanna be that guy complaining that movies should teach my hypothetical children something other than gibberish, but here I am, asking you politely to get off my lawn and take your Despicables with you. Amazingly enough, “Despicable Me 2” and “Minions” were both the highest grossing animated films of 2013 and 2015, respectively. […]
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Maybe a Superhero Will Save Us!
With Lego Batman, not quite everything is awesome
Lego Batman might not be the hero we need, but he’s the hero we deserve. In a city where super villains run rampant and the police and regular citizens are helpless to stop them, we need a masked vigilante to step up and protect us. I’m not talking about Bernie Sanders and Washington, D.C., I’m […]