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What Would Vonnegut Say About Cryptocurrency?

20 Feb 202121 Feb 2021
Or: God Bless You, Mr. Musk This is a question I keep asking myself: what would Kurt Vonnegut think of Bitcoin? Would he prefer Ethereum? Would he see the humor…
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Why Will Ferrell Should’ve Played George W. Bush in Vice

10 Feb 20199 Nov 2019
A sort of (but not really) film review Let’s get something out of the way: yes, Christian Bale is great in Vice. He crushes it. He destroys it. He is…
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The Departed Fan Theory: Mark Wahlberg’s Dignam Used to Be Nice

11 Jan 201912 Jan 2019
Another edition of Fan Theory Fridays This post is part of Fan Theory Fridays, in which we share and explore a new fan theory about a film, television series, book,…
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Home Alone is a Dickensian, Supernatural Test of the McCallisters

14 Dec 201831 Oct 2021
A Fan Theory About Home Alone's Old Man Marley & the Film's Christmas Carol Overtones This post is the first in a new series called Fan Theory Fridays, in which…
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The Homage is Not Enough: on the Limits of Nostalgia-First Narratives

13 Mar 201814 Mar 2018
In the summer of 2016 everyone started telling me that I had to watch a show called Stranger Things. I was reluctant. The reluctance came from the way it was…
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Some takes on 2017, before it ends

30 Dec 201731 Dec 2017
The end of 2017 is nigh. And with it, the top ten lists, the retrospectives, the predictions. Rather than the Top Books Published in 2017 or the Best Films of…
A Game of Thrones…

Why That Game of Thrones Fan Theory Is Not a Game of Thrones Fan Theory

26 Aug 201726 Aug 2017
The internet loves a good fan theory. The trouble is, the phrase "fan theory" has started to go the way of words like content or hipster or artisan or any…
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From Short Films to the Big Screen: The Parallel Journey of Batman and Christopher Nolan

3 Mar 2017
The following was written by WWBD columnist Intern-iana Jones. Enjoy! The inexplicable fascination behind the Batman film franchise reflects the mystery of its main character, as well as the brilliance…
2016 Election…

No More Gritty Reboots: Why Lego Batman and Legion Are the Future of Superheroes

12 Feb 201731 May 2017
Yes, this blog is dedicated to "an ongoing exploration of the dark and gritty reboot." But, as written about in the previous post on this blog, The World Needs Bad…
2016…

The True Theme of 2016: Never Meet Your Heroes

28 Dec 201611 Apr 2019
Hating 2016 and wishing for it to end has perhaps been the meme of 2016. It has been called a dumpster fire and was declared to "even sucked for Kim Kardashian." Beginning…

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