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American Psycho…

Stop Saying the Book is Better Than the Movie

20 Sep 202228 Feb 2023
(Except for when The Book is Better.) One of the cheapest, easiest opinions a person can have is the broad statement “the book is always better than the movie” or,…
Christmas…

Are Christmas Movies in the Eye of the Beholder?

28 Dec 20202 Dec 2022
An Attempt to Define and Categorize "Christmas Movie" There are certain things you can count on for the internet to deliver on a regular basis. The “Die Hard is a…
Fan Theories…

A Fan Theory on Chewbacca at the End of A New Hope

4 May 201931 Oct 2021
It's another Fan Theory Friday. Although this is a special one, on a Saturday, because today is Star Wars Day. Today's fan theory is in honor of Peter Mayhew, the…
Books…

The Harry Potter Fan Theory That Explains Hogwarts’ Finances

8 Mar 201915 May 2023
Or: Why Does Slytherin Still Exist? I finished reading the Harry Potter novels at the age of thirty. I read the first four books as they were released, starting the…
Fan Theories…

Gregg Turkington, Tim Heidecker, Ant-Man & Metafiction

22 Feb 201918 Mar 2023
Or: Is the MCU a Meta Narrative Within the On Cinema at the Cinema Universe? Note: this article has been updated several times (most recently in February of 2023) to…
Bale…

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…
Fan Theories…

Did Tony Stark Disparage Bloggers to Dissuade Peter Parker’s Vlogging?

21 Dec 20183 Dec 2019
A Fan Theory of the MCU This post is part of a new series called Fan Theory Fridays, in which we share and explore a new fan theory about a…
Bale…

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…
Christmas…

Why Die Hard 2 is a Better Christmas Movie Than Die Hard

24 Dec 201711 Oct 2022
It's the season of Die Hard. The season of "Die Hard is the best Christmas movie." Or, at the very least, "did you know Die Hard is a Christmas movie."   Die…
Alien…

The Alien: Covenant Ending Was Not an Obvious Twist. It Was Dramatic Irony.

11 Aug 20172 Mar 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,…

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