Alien… The Alien: Covenant Ending Was Not a Twist. It Was Dramatic Irony. 11 Aug 201727 Aug 2023 On Ozymandias & Alien It was the best of Alien films, it was the worst of Alien films, it was the sequel to Prometheus, it was the prequel to Alien,…
Batman… Sick of Reboots, Sequels, and Extended Universes? Blame Classic Literature 25 Jun 20173 Nov 2021 We find ourselves in the midst of another summer and with it, an endless brigade of sequels, prequels, reboots, requels, and the ongoing march of extended cinematic universes. A new…
D. F. Lovett… What References, Depictions, and Themes Should We Anticipate in Fargo’s Season 3? 15 Apr 201723 Jun 2017 While this blog's last Fargo article gave you a list of ways to get hyped for the forthcoming third season, it didn't go very deep into what we've seen in Fargo…
Books… Twelve Ways to Get Hyped for Fargo’s Third Season 30 Mar 20171 Apr 2017 The trailers are out for the third season of Fargo and there isn't much more to say about them than "okay then." As in, it looks good. Pretty darn good.…
2017… Let’s Hope the New Beauty and the Beast Ends with Gaston Killing the Beast 5 Mar 201721 Jun 2023 Update: it didn't end that way. But most of these points still stand. Disney's live action Beauty and the Beast is almost here. And while the majority of the conversation has…
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 World Needs Bad Men: Bush, Trump, and the Anti-Hero 22 Jan 20174 Oct 2022 How the Bush Era Caused the Anti-Hero Wave that Gave Rise to Trump Toward the finale of the 2016 election, Mike Huckabee took to Fox News to give a defense…
Corrective Sequels… Will True Detective’s Second Season be to True Detective as Halloween 3 is to Halloween? 7 Jul 20168 Jul 2016 Matthew McConaughey recently stirred up some folks by saying that yes, he misses playing Rust Cohle and, yes, he would consider reprising that character, if given the right opportunity. “Would…
Bale… Why I’m Done Seeing Tarantino Films in the Theater 15 Jan 201615 Feb 2016 This isn't a review of The Hateful Eight. I'll sum up my opinion of it in one sentence: It's not his worst movie or his best movie, and I only…
Bale… The 15 Most Under-Appreciated Films of the Last 15 Years 29 Dec 201515 Feb 2016 If you hadn't noticed: it's list season. And while I don't believe in lists-for-the-sake-of-lists, I've been meaning to put together a list of the films that I think more…