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Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 is the first real Disney Marvel film. The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man had already come out in 2008. Surely the negotiations had been happening for years, but Disney did not officially buy...
No one saw this coming
Iron Man
It was the ’90s. Our president was cool and played the saxophone, I was a lot shorter, and Saturday mornings were reserved for cartoons. It was a glorious time that I got to enjoy whenever my mother d...
Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit
Lonesome Dove, Episode 1
Spoiler “I’m glad I’ve been wrong enough to keep in practice… You can’t avoid it, you’ve got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life, it’s bound...
Review of Alone With Heaven
Alone With Heaven · The Saddest Landscape
What makes The Saddest Landscape stand out among their peers in the emo/screamo scene is their ability to capture the tension of hope and despair so viscerally. They utilize massive, melodic wall-of-s...
Cameron's First Classic
Aliens
Aliens. That’s a pretty good summary of this movie, especially if you’ve seen Alien. This is Aliens. A rare sequel that switches genre, increases the enemies and makes another great film. Alien is a g...
Another great DLC
Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches
A two‑part DLC would irritate me were it not for the sheer amount of fun it delivers. You jump straight back into Daud’s story. He has solved the mystery of Delilah’s identity, but her motives remain...
A Knife in the Night
Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall
The Knife of Dunwall might be the best DLC I have ever played—not the best for Dishonored 1, not the best in the entire Dishonored series, but the best DLC I have ever experienced. What the Knife of D...
An Exceptional Game
Dishonored: Definitive Edition
I did not like Dishonored when it was first released. Coming out shortly before Bioshock Infinite, it was not the game I wanted it to be. It wasn’t easy or forgiving—no, it was an immersive sim sold t...
All of a Sudden I Want to Dream
All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone · Explosions in the Sky
Explosions in the Sky is not shy about evoking the unnamed emotions that exist between your initial reaction and deeper introspection—those first flashes of excitement, the tension of a held breath. A...
A Perfect Blend
Alien
If Ridley Scott’s Alien were just science fiction, it would rank among the very best in cinematic history. If it were purely horror, it would still stand among the best. It’s the confluence of these s...
Emotions for Rent by Hour
Rental Family
Spoiler Rental Family raises poignant questions about the commodification of loneliness, the impact of genuine connection, and what it means to be a friend, family, lover, or community - questions which are u...
Wow... What a Let Down
RoboCop 3
I was 7 and I was the problem. I liked Robocop and I was the problem. I was too little to have seen it. So many of us were just to young for the violence and satire. So a movie studio did what they sh...
A Book and Game Worth Your Time
The Last Great Game: Duke vs. Kentucky and the 2.1 Seconds That Changed Basketball
Sports only matter if you care. If you care about the team, the school, franchise, the players. Gene Wojciechowski makes you care about Duke and Kentucky. He makes you care about Duke's rise and Kentu...
Ron Swanson to the darkside
Sovereign
If you want to mess up your YouTube algorithm for a while—and make yourself a little dumber—go on YouTube and search “Sovereign Citizen.” There’s no shortage of compilations and short documentaries ab...
The French Connection, Heat, Bullitt, Dirty Hairy....HAWK JONES
Hawk Jones
I was merely a child when I first found this movie in the local video store. I would rent this film once a week. My parents would try to talk me out of it, but it was too no avail. Hawk Jones is the s...
Review of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?” A well-lauded, if somewhat overlooked classic of 20th century American literature, what’s left to be sa...
The Best Action Movie of the Decade
Mad Max: Fury Road
I was completely on board with Fury Road when I saw the trailer in early 2015. It looked bombastic and fun. When I walked out of the theater on May 17, 2015, I had gotten everything I wanted—and so mu...
Back for More
RoboCop 2
I have to admit something. It’s a little embarrassing, and from it you might make some assumptions about my parents. Despite their attitudes about respect, responsibility, accountability, and integrit...
To Protect and Serve
RoboCop
Inspired by the resurgence of sci-fi and the emergence of more mature-themed comics in the 1980s, RoboCop tells the story of a police officer in a decaying Detroit. He is assigned to the most violent...
More Than Just a Movie
Sinners
I was sold on the film the moment I saw the trailer and heard Michael B. Jordan say, “Naw, we cousins.” Set in the Jim Crow South, Sinners tells the story of a juke joint (think club in Prohibition-er...
A masterpiece blend of horror and philosophy
Midnight Mass - Limited Series
I'd never considered myself a fan of horror until I delved into Mike Flanagan's various limited series on Netflix. He has a very captivating way of building earnest drama along slow-boil tension and r...
This Cyber-Organic Techno-Naturalist Rivals-Turned-Lovers Gender and Time Non-Conforming High-Concept and Abstract Sci-Fi Romance Novella Rules. There's Your Title.
This Is How You Lose the Time War
“The twist of you in me. The writhe. You’re a whip uncoiling in my veins, and I write between the rearing and the snap.” Amal El Mohtar’s and Max Gladstone's Award-Winning(Hugo, Nebula, and Locust) Sc...
A great show to just sit and enjoy
INVINCIBLE - Season 1
I am skeptical of deconstructions of genre. In lesser hands the deconstruction is boorish with nothing to say more than “Doesn’t this suck? AMIRIGHT?!?!” I call that finger in your eye satire and it's...
Run, Rabbit, Run-Reading Alex Greican’s “Red Rabbit”
Red Rabbit
There’s powerful, totemic magic at play here. Devils walk the earth, ghouls consume men alive, and you’d better be careful of any strangers you meet alone on a dusty Kansas trail. You see, Samuel Colt...