Fast Five is great, superb summer entertainment, and a fitting commemoration for the 10th anniversary of the original The Fast and the Furious. Justin Lin has fashioned himself into a groundbreaking action director in the vein …
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Tangled and the Death of the Disney Fairy Tale
Like Nietzsche with God, last fall Disney declared that the fairy tale was dead. In this case, that is, Disney would no longer be making animated features out of the old stories. As a child …
Continue readingThor – Movie Review: A Study In Universe Expansion
Marvel Studios have had a lot of success at the box office lately, especially with the Iron Man movies, and they obviously plan to have a lot more success in the coming years with a …
Continue readingPlayin’ with Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Daenerys Chapter 23
She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader. She’s the newbie, she’s the spoilery vet. Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on. Today they react to Chapter 23- Daenerys. If …
Continue readingGrimDark: Loose Canon & Warhammer Race War Aaron Dembski-Bowden Guest Blog
Aaron Dembski-Bowden bringing his cannons to canon. Also his warhammer.
Continue readingUniversal War One… Stripp’d
The Christian conception of redemption is an oddly commercial one. Grounded in Old Testament talk of ransoming the slaves, redemption is presented as a transaction through which Christians pay off their debt to God and …
Continue readingPlayin’ with Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Arya Stark Chapter 22
She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader. She’s the newbie, she’s the spoilery vet. Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on. Today they move on to Chapter 22, an …
Continue readingI Saw the Devil: Feel Good Movie of the Year – review
“The count’s frozen face was petrified and ashen and the blood still poured down the parallel cuts. His eyes bulged wide, full of horror and pain. It was glorious. If you like that kind of …
Continue readingRETURN to CEREBUS, cried the Earth-Pig Born! A Cerebus Retrospective
Part the First Dave Sim is not dead.
Continue readingPlayin’ With Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Tyrion Lannister Chapter 21
She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader. She’s the newbie, she’s the spoilery vet. Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on. Today they move on to Chapter 21, a …
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Playin’ With Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Ned Chapter 20
She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader. She’s the newbie, she’s the spoilery vet. Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on. Today they move on to Chapter 20, a …
Continue readingI Sell the Dead | movie review
I Sell the Dead is proof that not every IFC production is golden. It’s from a couple years ago now—2008, I think—and showed up on my Netflix recommendations page and sounded interesting enough to try. …
Continue readingAn Essay into Exoticism – Notes from New Sodom
Hal Duncan on Exoticism in Literature, representation, cultural appropriation, and needed suspicion.
Continue readingSource Code | movie review
Mozart originally ended his opera Don Giovanni with Don Giovanni descending into Hell, his soul claimed by the devil, and later added a final ensemble to bring the performance away from the bleakness of that …
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