Inside the New DC Fan Schism
While it does, unfortunately, appear that Warner Brothers has not responded to the mediocre performance of ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ with any kind of interesting panic (although Marvel is...
View Articlebecause I got like twenty emails asking me what I thought about the DOCTOR...
The problem with any retelling of the Doctor Strange origin story – and although I am more or less tired of origin stories as “first movies” in superhero cinema, I make an exception here, because...
View ArticleApparently I Have a Monkey’s Paw I Didn’t Know About
As I have previously mentioned, the one bright spot about the existence of the otherwise extremely uninspiring and uninteresting ‘Batman v Superman’ movie (really, I remember having huge misgivings as...
View ArticleI Want This Soooooooo Bad
For those of you who haven’t seen it, ‘Civil War’ was a great movie. It was an incalculably vast improvement on the comics, with characterization that felt more grounded in the previous movies and less...
View ArticleLesser Fan Theories
Everyone loves a good fan theory, right? …um, right? ….can we just pretend they do, for the sake of my introductory spiel, here? ……..so some people on the Internet really love a good fan theory, while...
View Article“Hola, amigos. I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya…”
*looks around* Well, what do you know, they didn’t change the locks on me…! Hello, citizens. My name is Justin. If you recall (and even if you don’t), I used to write about comics and stuff here, way...
View ArticleMarvel Movies: The Abridged Edition
So let’s say that you (or more likely, your friend who sent you to this webpage and is dragging you to the Doctor Strange movie, or maybe the Google search algorithm that directed you here) want to get...
View ArticleMGK’s Theoretically Annual Oscar Predictions Post
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: I have seen nothing in this category, but: a lot of people are predicting that The Salesman will win, because director Asghar Farhadi is directly subject to Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleWhy I keep being concerned about the rise of streaming services
People who know me know that I continue to be concerned that the transition to streaming services is actually providing less choice to film viewers rather than more. This is not a new hobby horse I’m...
View ArticleVideo stores were better than Netflix
In comments on the previous post, Disgrunted Manatee suggests: As others have said, without a picture of the selection from previous ages, it is hard to digest this data. I still recall Blockbuster...
View ArticleYou fucking nerds
WARNING: this post has lots of spoilers in it for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. You cannot escape them if you continue reading. Okay. So I say this as someone who saw The Last Jedi (and my review is here,...
View ArticleMGK’s Top Ten Movies of 2017
10.) John Wick Chapter 2. Here is the interesting thing about John Wick 2: it is, fairly blatantly, a critique of capitalism. John Wick is imprisoned in an economic system with rules designed to...
View ArticleMGK Ranks Every Live-Action Marvel Movie Since 1998 (2018 Remix Edition)
(Since the last time I did this in 2014, there have been fifteen new Marvel movies from various studios released to theatres, so an update was warranted.) THE ONES THAT ARE JUST TOTAL SHIT 47....
View ArticleOld Man Yells At Cloud (Marvel edition)
So Martin Scorsese said that the Marvel movies are “not cinema” and the internet kind of blew up because it is inherently polarizing, and the possibility that Scorsese is both one of our most talented...
View ArticleIf you can Schumacher it there you can Schumacher it anywhere
Following Joel Schumacher’s death earlier this week, there was the inevitable return of one of nerddom’s longest-living arguments, namely the quality of the two Batman films he directed. Granted, the...
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