It is difficult to avoid comparing The Watch (2012) without thinking about Edgar Wright’s The World’s End (2013). There is a similarity between these two films, much in […]
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Review: Joker Rising
Over the weekend, I watched the fan film “Joker Rising“. In some ways, it’s a technical achievement, apparently shot for only $3,000 over eight days. With that kind […]
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“While the amazons have the truth lasso, I’ve got tequila”: Reviewing Animated DC Movies
While everyone’s been concerned with Man of Steel and the next DC live-action movie, there’s been some seriously kick-ass animated films with DC heroes that haven’t gotten enough […]
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Blood Bowl, Hansel & Gretel, and Knights of Badassdom: Bloody fun stuff
This last weekend (what with all the snow and such) meant I had a lot of time. I decided to spend some of it with Blood Bowl and […]
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Trust your audience and readers – or you’ll piss them off (at best)
Over the weekend, I watched three sci-fi films with Chris The Nuclear Kid – the very first of the original Flash Gordon serials, the 1980’s Flash Gordon, and […]
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Bambi Ain’t Priscilla – Movies, Marcuse, and Empathy (Vignette Eight)
[Steve’s note – this continues the various short vignettes highlighting parts of Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man Here are links to the introduction, could becoming should, religion, rationalization of brutality, […]