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Top 10 Points Where ‘Star Wars’ Fans Lost Faith
It really is the old school fans who keep the Star Wars torch alight. Not that some younger viewers aren’t getting into it, but they’re growing up at the worst point in the franchise history. The...
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Does Zack Snyder Think We’re Stupid? A Look at the ‘Dawn of Justice’ Trailer
A couple of years ago the teaser trailer for Man of Steel hit the internet and I wrote a feature about why it didn’t look very good. People were unhappy with this assessment, insisting that it was, in...
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HOLY HATE FEST BATMAN! A Second Look At The “Dawn of Justice” Trailer
Like many superhero fans I hold Batman and Superman in high regard. Batman has been and always will be, my favorite superhero. As elaborate and sometimes fantastic as his tales have been, Batman’s...
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Why Did Joss Whedon Just Get Bullied Off Twitter?
I just got shouted in my office by someone who feels this article contained unmarked spoilers. So: Spoiler Warning for Age of Ultron. It has to be said, for all the anti-cyberbullying rhetoric we see...
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‘Mad Max’ Has Given Us the Most Feminist Action Movie this Decade
I saw Mad Max: Fury Road the other day and it was FREAKING AMAZING. Miller has reminded us that visuals and story should go hand in hand in the cinematic medium, not separated through pages of...
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The Scene That Shook The Iron Throne: The Rape of Sansa Stark
This is one of the more difficult and uncomfortable articles I’ve ever chosen to write about. I struggled for several hours whether or not to even broach this topic because the subject of rape,...
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Another Talk About the ‘Game of Thrones’ Rape Controversy
We’ve already posted one article about this topic. I was a bit relieved when Darth Gandalf said he was writing a piece because it felt like it should be addressed but I had no idea what I wanted to say...
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Movie Review: Why ‘The DUFF’ Does Everything Wrong
Whenever we wanted to point out everything about teen/high school movies that are stupid we looked to She’s All That. It was full of cringe. It’s begun to fade from the collective consciousness, being...
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Movies They Need to Stop Making Sequels To
Why does Hollywood keep making sequels? Because we keep going to see them. The audience requires less convincing to see it, the development time is less…all in all they’re a better investment. Studios...
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Is ‘Inside Out’ for Kids?
With the release of any new Pixar film the internet bubbles over with excitement. Even if it’s one that doesn’t pull in record-breaking box office it will find a niche in our collective consciousness...
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Why Every New ‘Terminator’ Movie Is Failing
So we got around to watching Terminator: Genisys and…well…it was not a good movie. It recycles chunks of the old films and the plot is a confused mess, with 90% of it being exposition. And every one...
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‘Unfriended’ Is Unexpectedly Great
Yes, that haunted Skype movie. Where a bunch of friends are tormented by an unseen figure via the internet, leading to murder and whatnot. Let’s get this out of the way now: Unfriended is a shitty...
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Why Does Everyone Hate ‘Pixels’?
The new Chris Columbus directed Adam Sandler vehicle, an ode to arcade games of the 1980s called Pixels, has been released and the response has been pretty poor. In fact, publishing the most creative...
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A Long Winded Rant About the ‘Minions’ Movie (and the Trend They Represent)
The sheer amount of laziness and pointlessness behind this movie pisses me off more than it reasonably should. Yes, it’s just a kids movie and who cares, but I really hate what this movie represents....
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Why Does Everyone Hate ‘Fantastic Four’?
Oh boy, here we go again. We had a similarly themed article concerning Pixels a few weeks ago, a movie aimed squarely at the geek market that failed abysmally. Now we have Fantastic Four, another big...
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The Significance of Black Panther In The MCU & Beyond
Captain America, Iron Man, Batman, Superman & Thor. Each one of these superheroes has various similarities. Thor and Superman are physical powerhouses. Batman...
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Why Do Star Wars Fans Hate Ewoks So Much?
With Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens mere months away (still doesn’t seem real to me) I can’t help revisiting the original trilogy. If time permits I hope to re-watch the originals just...
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My Digital Conversion Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Downloads
When I graduated high school eighteen years ago I was already a full-fledged movie fanatic. I was raised on Luke Skywalker, Peter Venkman, Marty McFly, William Wallace–and my parents of course. And...
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‘Force Friday’ Represents Everything Wrong with ‘Star Wars’
Did you know there’s a new Star Wars movie coming out this year? It’s been hard to miss, especially with the marketing and merchandise blitz that will come with it. Wait, I mean already started....
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DC Do Or Die: Making A Case For A Question TV Series
TV has superhero fever and DC is a big part of that. The DC TV universe is expanding. Arrow has spawned a number of spinoffs and helped usher in a new television universe. Not only are more DC shows...
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