American Psycho… Stop Saying the Book is Better Than the Movie 20 Sep 202220 Sep 2022 Except for when it is. One of the cheapest, easiest opinions a person can have is the broad statement “the book is always better than the movie” or, more in…
Christmas… Are Christmas Movies in the Eye of the Beholder? 28 Dec 202028 Dec 2020 There are certain things you can count on for the internet to deliver on a regular basis. The “Die Hard is a Christmas movie” conversation has become a permanent fixture…
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 201928 Sep 2019 Just another Fan Theory Friday I finished reading the Harry Potter novels at the age of thirty. I read the first four books as they were released, starting the first…
Fan Theories… Gregg Turkington, Tim Heidecker, Ant-Man & Metafiction 22 Feb 201917 Sep 2022 Or: Is the MCU a Meta Narrative Within the On Cinema Universe? Note: this article has been updated since it was first published to incorporate updates to the Marvel and…
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 201710 Sep 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 201717 Sep 2022 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, it was the story…