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An Investigation into Halloween’s Satanic Origins

Diving Deeper into Halloween, Satan, and the Allegations Made in Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal Let’s start with one thing: I…

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16Oct 202131 Aug 2023
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Every Large Adult Son on Succession, Ranked

Who is Succession’s Number One Boy? (My Version of Those “Every Succession Character, Ranked” Articles) This is my guide to…

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Gregg Turkington, Tim Heidecker, Ant-Man & Metafiction

Or: Is the MCU a Meta Narrative Within the On Cinema at the Cinema Universe? Note: this article has been…

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Why Bale Should Have a Twitter Account

14 Jun 201118 Oct 2014
Twitter is sometimes amusing.  This might be the best you can say for it.  It's rarely informative, regularly frustrating, and the "trending topics" reveal its ability to be a cesspool…
Fast Five…

Why Bale should be in the “Fast Five” Sequel

4 May 201118 Oct 2014
What Should Bale Do must issue an apology.  Previously on this blog, it was stated that the Fast & Furious franchise is in need of a reboot starring Bale (i.e.…
Bale…

Regarding The Dark Knight Rises

31 Mar 201126 Mar 2012
I may be going against the previous established theme of this blog by discussing a Christian Bale project that is actually happening, but it seems necessary to comment on the…
equilibrium…

Bale vs. Smith

14 Mar 201118 Oct 2014
Apparently, Will Smith hasn't been in movies in a couple years.  If you hadn't noticed, it's probably because you aren't counting down the days to Men in Black 3: Aliens…
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The One Defense of The Lesser Gatsby

7 Mar 201118 Oct 2014
There is one great aspect of The Great Gatsby in 3D (which yes, is a real movie, not something I made up for this blog.  See?) that I forgot to mention in…
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Chateau of Bluebeard

2 Mar 201118 Oct 2014
If Bale and Depp are really to have a show-down (see previous post), and for it to be more satisfying than Public Enemies (in which Bale did not get enough…
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Bale vs. Depp

2 Mar 201122 Jul 2011
In a recent comment, reader and Bale-Fan Seth Rogers wrote "anything Johny Depp can do, Bale can do better. All that zany out there persona stuff (capt. Jack for example),…
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The Lesser Gatsby

1 Mar 201122 Jul 2011
It does not matter how much we hate the idea, how much we deny it or try to wish it away: Baz Luhrmann is making a 3D version of The…
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Checks and Balances

28 Feb 201122 Jul 2011
Submitted by reader and Bale-fan Sean Folstad (who also made the excellent header for the blog), we have a poster for Blank Check 2.
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Blank Check 2: Checks and Balances

28 Feb 201111 Sep 2023
Christian Bale has not made a comedy since American Psycho.  The funniest moments he has had are as Patrick Bateman or Bruce Wayne.  It's time for him to make a…

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