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Back to the Future…with a Warhammer – Aaron Dembski-Bowden Guest Blog

On July 30 By Aaron Dembski-Bowden

Aaron Dembski-Bowden is back!

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sandman

Sandman Meditations – The Wake

On July 27
deadpool

Deadpool – Badass of the Week

On August 7

What is Style? – Notes From New Sodom

On August 1
gareth edwards

Gareth Edwards Interview | Monsters

On August 8 By Elena Nola

This guy directed Star Wars Rogue One!

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the goonies

The Goonies – Troy’s Bucket (and Why I Ain’t Riding Up It)

On August 5
leon

Cut For Your Pleasure – LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL

On July 31
memento

12 Time-Twisted Crime Films

On July 24
warhammer

Back to the Future…with a Warhammer – Aaron Dembski-Bowden Guest Blog

On July 30 By Aaron Dembski-Bowden In (special) Guest Blogs, Books & Comics, Gaming

Aaron Dembski-Bowden is back!

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Sandman Meditations – The Wake

On July 27 By Matthew Cheney In (special) Guest Blogs, Sandman Meditations

Matthew Cheney is reaching the end in these collected essays on Neil Gaiman’s epic Sandman run with The Wake.

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Gareth Edwards Interview | Monsters

On August 8 By Elena Nola In Interviews, Movies & TV

This guy directed Star Wars Rogue One!

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Deadpool – Badass of the Week

On August 7 By Ben Thompson In (special) Guest Blogs

Ben Thompson chronicles the crazy badass history and highlights of the Merc

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the goonies

The Goonies – Troy’s Bucket (and Why I Ain’t Riding Up It)

On August 5 By Jimmy Callaway In Movies & TV

If you’re anything like me, you’re broke. Not quite selling-your-plasma-for-lunch-money broke.  But definitely dodging-bill-collectors-and-praying-to-a-God-you-don’t-believe-in-that-your-car-won’t-break-down-again broke.

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DC: THE NEW FRONTIER… Stripp’d

On August 4 By Jonathan McCalmont In Books & Comics

0. Looking Back in order to Move Forward One of the more interesting developments in superhero comics has been the growing popularity of comics that take familiar characters and transplant them into unfamiliar historical contexts. …

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What is Style? – Notes From New Sodom

On August 1 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Big question. Hal Duncan has (long) answers.

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Cut For Your Pleasure – LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL

On July 31 By Liam Jose In Movies & TV

Exploring censorship, alternate versions of crime classics and the reasons behind creative changes. This edition: LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL

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memento

12 Time-Twisted Crime Films

On July 24 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

It’s time to spring forward, as the saying goes. What daylight savings actually saves is beyond me. Just another way of making me wake up earlier than sunrise. Twisting time has worked a whole lot …

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Jia Zhangke

Paris in a Beijing Suburb: The Failure of Capitalism in The World of Jia Zhangke

On July 23 By Paul Smith In Movies & TV

Jia Zhangke is not only the best filmmaker to emerge from China’s sixth generation of filmmakers, but also widely regarded as one of the most important and vital directors working today by both his peers …

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Takin’ ‘er Easy for All Us Sinners: The World According to Jeffrey Lebowski

On July 19 By Jimmy Callaway In Movies & TV

The Big Lebowski enjoys what is probably the largest cult following of all the cult-attracting films of Joel and Ethan Coen, and has pretty much since its release over a decade ago.  And “cult” has …

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Chew… Stripp’d

On July 19 By Jonathan McCalmont In Books & Comics

Food is the archetypal First World problem. While some parts of the world starve and other parts are turned inside out by our demand for low-cost and low-fuss supplies of exotic and increasingly refined foodstuffs, …

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district 9

Top 10 Science Fiction Movies of the Decade 2000-2009

On July 16 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

All the end-of-year/decade lists going up right now inspired me to hit one up of my own. And all the hype about James Cameron’s Avatar, which is being trumpeted as some sort of monumental science fiction …

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game of thrones

Playin’ With Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Jon Snow Chapter 19

On July 13 By Elena Nola In Books & Comics, Game of Thrones, Movies & TV, Playin w/ Ice and Fire

She’s new, I’m the re-reader. She’s the newbie, I’m the spoilery vet. Together She’s  g-mashin’ George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting here POV on. Today she moves on to Chapter 19, a …

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Playin’ With Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Catelyn Stark Chapter 18

On July 13 By Elena Nola In Books & Comics, Game of Thrones, Movies & TV, Playin w/ Ice and Fire

She’s new, I’m the re-reader. She’s the  newbie, I’m the spoilery vet. Together She’s  g-mashin’ George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting here POV on. Today she moves on to Chapter 18, a …

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Songs of Hate, Part Two: The Visual Instead Of The Verbal

On July 12 By Cameron Ashley In Movies & TV

We left off last column with a run-down on the first of actress/singer Meiko Kaji’s Female Prisoner Scorpion series and a hint that things were about to get pretty weird. Well, the phantasmagoria goes full bore in the …

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Forget It, Eddie, It’s Toontown – The Crime Fiction Roots Of Roger Rabbit

On July 11 By Jimmy Callaway In Movies & TV

My friend’s dad took us to see Willow one sunny summer’s day in 1988.  It was a good movie and all, but honestly I was extremely distracted throughout the whole thing.  All I could think …

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G.I. Joe Rawhides – 30 Years Later, the G.I. Joe Animated Movie

On July 7 By Jay In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

Back in 1987 fans of G.I. Joe got an animated film that has gone on to become a pretty divisive movie during a time which was probably the height of or toward the end of …

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Hou Hsiao Hsien

Love Throughout The Ages: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Three Times

On July 5 By Paul Smith In Movies & TV

The Taiwanese New Wave that emerged in the 80s provided two of the best film makers of the modern age in the late Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Jonathan Rosenbaum has compared both of their …

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matrix

The Ten Greatest Henchmen In Movie History

On July 3 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

Say you’re putting together a syndicate.  One of the first things that you are going to need is somebody to take care of your light work for you when words have run out.  As a …

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end of summer

Everything is Transitory but the Family Remains: Yasujirō Ozu’s The End of Summer

On June 29 By Paul Smith In Movies & TV

Throughout his career, Yasujirō Ozu experimented with ensemble narrative. While it forms the core of his most famous film, one of the greatest films ever made, Tokyo Story, he first employed the style years earlier …

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The Millennium Falcon or Serenity? | Point/Counterpoint

On June 28 By Elisabeth Rappe and Eric Schlelein In Movies & TV

If there’s one thing nerds like to do, it’s debate.  And if there’s one thing nerds like to debate about, it’s useless trivia from TV shows and movies.  Thus, we humbly submit for your reading …

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i spit on your grave

7 Toughest Comebacks in Crime Film

On June 27 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

Crime heroes and villains got it rough. They’re usually up to the gills in trouble and their genre, unlike horror, doesn’t smile on its bad-asses soaking up too many bullets. A fortunate – or unfortunate, …

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Rorschach

Batman or Rorschach? – Point/Counterpoint

On June 27 By Elisabeth Rappe and Eric Schlelein In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

o, who would you rather have operating just outside the law to protect your city?  Batman or Rorschach?  Discuss!

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Ashes of Time Redux: Wong Kar-wai as a Poet of Memory

On June 25 By Paul Smith In Movies & TV

In 2046, Wong Kar-wai’s eighth film, Tony Leung Chiu-wai plays a journalist and writer (the same character he plays in In the Mood for Love), that begins to write science-fiction as an additional income when …

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Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay Review

On June 25 By Victoria Hoyle In Books & Comics

I have a set of bright memories associated with various of Guy Gavriel Kay’s novels: Sitting, aged 13, grief-stricken and sobbing in a cold bath having finished “The Darkest Road”, the final weft in his …

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Shai-Hulud from DUNE or Falkor the Luck Dragon from THE NEVERENDING STORY? – Point/Counterpoint

On June 24 By Elisabeth Rappe and Eric Schlelein In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

The question on everyone’s lips, which we humbly seek to answer today, “Which is the better ridiculous mode of transportation, Shai-Hulud from Frank Herbert’s Dune series, or Falkor the Luck Dragon from The Neverending Story?

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alias

The 5 Worst TV Crime Show Finales

On June 23 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

You’d think it would be easy to wrap up a crime TV series. Punish the bad guys, save the day and solve the mystery. The audience can turn off the set with their belief in …

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6 Most Twisted Pranks in Crime Film

On June 20 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

A perfect crime always has a bit of a prank to it. When you’re breaking the law, you’re duping society, after all. You play a joke on old Lady Justice. The punchline just happens to …

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Suzhou River:

Dredging Suzhou River: Artifice and Art

On June 19 By Paul Smith In Movies & TV

At the very beginning of Lou Ye’s Suzhou River (Sūzhōu Hé) the unnamed and unseen narrator and protagonist whom works as a freelance cameraman tells the viewer that he is fine filming anything just so long …

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The better sci-fi/fantasy pet? Spot from Star Trek: TNG, or Oy from Stephen King’s Dark Tower | Point/Counterpoint

On June 18 By Elisabeth Rappe and Eric Schlelein In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

This week we seek to answer that most pressing of questions: Which is the better sci-fi/fantasy pet?  Spot from Star Trek: The Next Generation, or Oy from Stephen King’s Dark Tower series?

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Authenticity in Mamoru Oshii’s Avalon

On June 17 By Paul Smith In Movies & TV

Before we begin, I would like to say a few brief words on the nature of this column. I believe it is impossible to talk about films without discussing what are considered spoilers, and to …

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heat

5 Terrifying Crime Films That Actually Happened

On June 17 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

There are plenty of crime films that straddle some scary territory: Serial killer suspense stories, “realistic” horror and a couple gangster-style stories with eerie elements. But even though Hollywood gets accused of slathering on the …

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Songs of Hate: Meiko Kaji and Female Prisoner Scorpion (Part One)

On June 16 By Cameron Ashley In Movies & TV

She sold over a million albums, her films inspired much of Kill Bill, and when she didn’t want to do what she was asked of by executives, she said uh-uh and split for greener pastures. Her name is …

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It’s Not The Quantity, It’s The Quality: Sion Sono’s COLD FISH

On June 15 By Cameron Ashley In Movies & TV

Back in my days teaching English in Japan, I raised the topic of murders and why they were so frequently extreme in Japan. One student actually said in reply, “It’s not the quantity, it’s the …

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pulp fiction

Top 10 Restaurants In Crime Film

On June 15 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

Crime films often make me hungry. Often the restaurant scenes are among the best remembered in crime flicks. The coffee shops and Italian kitchens and juke joints where criminal characters go to grab a bite …

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Heroic Bloodshed: John Woo in Hong Kong | Tokyo Drifter

On June 12 By Paul Smith In Movies & TV

John Woo makes cool films. His Hong Kong action films are amongst some of, if not the best, action movies ever made. Films like A Better Tomorrow and its sequel, A Better Tomorrow II, The …

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The Entertainers: 5 Essential Movies of Scam Cinema

On June 10 By Jimmy Callaway In Movies & TV

Hollywood: it’s all a scam, isn’t it? For all of our lives, the movies have promised us big, big things.  Action and adventure are just out there waiting for us.  Good always triumphs over evil.  A …

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The Chimpanzee Complex… Stripp’d

On June 10 By Jonathan McCalmont In Books & Comics

There is consolation in conspiracy. Whenever something terrible happens, humans look for answers and they don’t stop looking even when they have found them: It wasn’t Oswald who killed Kennedy, it was the mob or …

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Memories of Wing Commander

On June 9 By John Markley In Gaming

There aren’t many things from my youth that I truly miss, but one of the members of that elite group is the space combat flight simulator game. Once quite common, they are all but unknown …

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In and Out of The Big House: DOING TIME and 9 SOULS

On June 9 By Cameron Ashley In Movies & TV

By his own admission, noted Mangaka (pro comics creator) Kazuichi Hanawa had long been interested in themes of confinement. An early, unfinished experiment was a manga concerning a masked man locked up in a basement. It’s oddly …

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More Evil, the Borg or the Aliens? | Point/Counterpoint

On June 6 By Elisabeth Rappe and Eric Schlelein In Movies & TV

In our never-ending quest to reduce the absurd, we offer the following Point/Counterpoint discussion:  Who is the better evil insidious race, the Borg, or the Aliens?

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Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit… Stripp’d

On June 6 By Jonathan McCalmont In Books & Comics

Some would say that beautiful lives bloom only in the shadow cast by death. But while this may very well be true, how could we ever know for sure? Statements like this one and Plato’s …

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RPGs I didn’t get to play: The 8-bit years

On June 5 By John Markley In Gaming

I had the bad timing to become a console RPG fan at the dawn of the 1990s. This was originally due to a promotional gimmick run by Nintendo Power magazine in which they gave away …

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Whitechapel Squad: The Detective Comics of Warren Ellis

On June 5 By Jimmy Callaway In Books & Comics

I’ve long believed Warren Ellis is a crime-fiction writer at heart.  The first series of Wolfskin was a clear example of sword-and-sorcery comics, but had that distinct Yojimbo/Fistful of Dollars feel, a dyed-in-the-wool crook playing both sides.  Comics like Aetheric …

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Black Crime Fiction: An Introduction

On June 5 By Brian Lindenmuth In Books & Comics

I. Introduction II. The Holy Trinity – Chester Himes, Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines III. Gone, Forgotten and Waiting for Discovery – Robert Deane Pharr & Clarence Cooper Jr. IV. The Best of the Rest …

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Arrivederci, Eltingville

On June 5 By Jimmy Callaway In Books & Comics

Comic book nerds are easy targets.  Fish in a barrel and on crutches, to boot.  Not to put too fine a point on it, but going to down to comics conventions and making fun of …

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Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky Review

On June 4 By Trine Paulsen In Books & Comics

Empire in Black and Gold is the debut of British author Adrian Tchaikovsky and the first installment in a trilogy titled Shadows of the Apt. In his debut Tchaikovsky gives us a heroic narrative where …

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let the right one in

Best Fantasy Movies of the Decade: 2000-2009

On June 4 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

When I was asked to write a companion piece to my Best Science Fiction Movies of the Decade list, I thought it would be equally as easy.  I was wrong.  There were a lot of …

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Charlie Adlard Interview – Portrait of the Artist as a Walking Dead Man

On June 4 By Stefan Petrucha In Books & Comics, Interviews, Movies & TV

Back in the nineties, I had the pleasure of working with Charlie Adlard on Topp’s The X-Files comic.  Ages later, the man who draws The Walking Dead was kind enough to spend some time catching …

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scott pilgrim

The Scott Pilgrim Girlfriend Test

On June 4 By Elena Nola In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

So you’ve finally met a girl who seems cool.  Outlook: positive…except that you can’t figure out how to suss out her level of nerdery without offending her or seeming even geekier than you are by …

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Phonogram… Stripp’d

On June 2 By Jonathan McCalmont In Books & Comics

One could argue that the enduring popularity of genre motifs is a direct result of the death of God. Prior to the Enlightenment, the people of the ancient and medieval worlds knew their place.  They …

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Scam Artist Hall Of Fame: M. Sgt. E.G. Bilko

On June 2 By Jimmy Callaway In Movies & TV

Welcome, dear friends and other suckers, to a new regular feature here at the Criminal Complex.  Yes, the Scam Artist Hall Of Fame, as demanded by none of you, will highlight those great men and …

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Before Youtube, Ninjak Debuts with a Bloodshot Problem in VALIANT Comics

On September 28 By Jay In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

… ahhh classic VALIANT.

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 Back to Amberle & Brooks’ The Elfstones – MTV’s Shannara Chronicles Trailer 

On July 11 By Jay In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

I will admit that I’m pretty easy to please but this thing looks better than I could have imagined. I’d consider myself very well entrenched in the world(s) of Terry Brooks, including and perhaps mostly …

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Judging Jorah Mormont as Daenerys Targaryen’s Champion

On May 19 By Jay In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

A lot things happened in last week’s episode that people want to talk about a lot more — and oddly I think that particular one was one of the better shot, edited, and acted scenes in a …

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Ten Things About House Targaryen for Game of Thrones Fans

On May 1 By Jay In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

Back to Game of Thrones as a lot of people read my Ten Things about Dorne and House Martell and a similar post about House Stark so I thought it might be worthwhile to go …

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The Order of the Blue Flower by Hal Duncan – Notes from New Sodom

On June 21 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Science Fiction and Fantasy broken down and put back together by Hal Duncan on the quest forthe Blue Flower.

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The Evolution of the Serial Killer

On October 24 By Matthew C. Funk In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

America has always been crazy about serial killers. They’re our homegrown werewolves. They click with the fast-food car culture that roars in the country’s busy, busy heart. They fit neatly with our cult-of-celebrity-style national mythology. …

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Real = Angst – The Grim ‘N’ Gritty Trend Of The Non-Powered Superhero

On October 23 By Liam Jose In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

Arrow, the WB action television series, starring Stephen Amell’s abs, based on the DC comic book series, Green Arrow, recently debuted and has now been picked up for a full season. Honestly, I haven’t seen …

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Cult Film Cult Crimes – Rob Zombie and THE LORDS OF SALEM

On October 10 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

Somewhere on the fringe of mainstream film, there’s a frenzied community of artists who illustrate an elemental aspect of crime. They don’t bother with the ticky-tack trivia of the procedural. They don’t focus on the …

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Strong Bonds – 007 from DR. NO to SKYFALL

On October 9 By Liam Jose In Movies & TV

British singer Adele has yet again proven herself to be a family friendly version of Amy Winehouse by recording a theme to a James Bond film, by (unlike the late Ms. Winehouse) actually getting the …

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Mae Catt – She Likes To Watch Monsters And Men

On September 27 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

On the occasion of the Emmys’ passing, let’s take a step outside the spotlight. I want to lead you to the fringes for a moment. You need to meet an artist who has yet to …

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Boozed Up And Beaten Down: Noir, Realism, And Alcohol

On September 25 By Liam Jose In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

Booze and crime goes hand in hand like booze and being hugely attractive and winning in life. I am drinking while writing this, because something something simpatico and shit. After speaking with my editor about …

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The Innocence Of Morons – Sam Bacile & Cranked-Out Propaganda

On September 14 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

If you find yourself with fifteen minutes to kill this evening, you can go to YouTube and pull up the video that is currently causing murder and mayhem and destruction in the Middle East this …

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To Ride Or Not To Ride – SAMCRO & Formulas For The Perfect Crime Story

On September 12 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

Much like most of the civilized world, I knew what yesterday meant: The premiere of Sons of Anarchy, Season 5. I was pretty jazzed. I would DVR that bad bastard and catch it when convenience …

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The Pigs That Are Their Food – THE KING OF PIGS And BLEAK NIGHT

On September 12 By Liam Jose In Movies & TV

The Korean Film Festival in Australia (or KOFFIA, the acronym they’ve mercifully given me so that I don’t have to type out “The Korean Film Festival in Australia” too many times. I am not paid …

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My Name Is Markham – The TV Sensibilities of NEAR DEATH

On September 10 By Jimmy Callaway In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

Near Death is one of the spate of high-quality comic books Image has been cranking out over the past couple of years, and I finally did myself the favor of reading it.  Of course, now …

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Up Jumped The New World Order – The New Rules of Satanism In Pop Music

On August 24 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

Before we get too far into this, I want everybody to remember that there was a time when the members of Mötley Crüe were presumed to be dangerous servants of the Devil. I should also …

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The City Of I Will – Why BOSS Is Kelsey Grammer’s Greatest Work

On August 20 By Jimmy Callaway In Movies & TV

It’s strange when you consider that Boss is Kelsey Grammer’s first major dramatic role.  He has always been known for playing upright, no-nonsense roles, but for laughs.  Boss season 2, which premiered this past Friday …

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Thawing Mr. Freeze – The Life And Death And Life Of Schwarzenegger’s Career

On August 17 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

The implications of resurrecting Arnold Schwarzenegger. For the record, I voted for Gallagher. In the Second Great American Mindfuck of the early 21st Century, also known as the 2003 California Gubernatorial Recall Election, I was …

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“Ya Wouldn’t Bloody Like Me When I’m Angry, Mate” – Eric Bana’s Weird Career Progression

On August 14 By Liam Jose In Movies & TV

Australian of many hats (and presumably berets, gloves, scarves and other assorted fineries) Eric Bana, is close to signing on to star in Lone Survivor. The Peter Berg-directed flick based on the events of SEAL Team …

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Get A Haircut Robert Pattinson – COSMOPOLIS

On August 7 By Jimmy Callaway In Movies & TV

Well, kids, it’s almost here.  The wide release on August 17th of Robert Pattinson’s latest vehicle, the David Cronenberg film Cosmopolis, is only days away, and if you listen closely, you can hear the eager …

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Books Punch Your Face – The Crime Midsummer Reading List

On July 22 By Josh Converse In Books & Comics

Eight noir novels to help fill your endless summer with a sense of overwhelming dread and paranoia. Okay, so I’m the professor who wakes up three weeks before the end of the semester and hits …

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What Are The Odds These Crime Film Remakes Will Happen?

On July 8 By Liam Jose In Movies & TV

Well, it’s a day ending in “y,” which means it’s time for Criminal Complex’s resident “typical internet fucktard” to vigorously blow his horn every which way over your face about film remakes. Film announcements are …

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Badass Moments in Sci-Fi History

On June 23 By Ben Thompson In (special) Guest Blogs

A guest blog by Ben Thompson, who kicks ass.

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12 Messed-Up Memorial Day HATFIELDS & MCCOYS Premiere Facts

On May 25 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

No other folk do blood feuds like Mason-Dixon Line Americans. Wedged between the Smoky Mountains and the Mississippi is enough pure meanness to power New York City from now until the Mayan Doomsday. They may …

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The Who, What, When, Where, And Why Of AWAKE’s Cancellation

On May 19 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

 Or, why I’ll never be fooled by NBC again. So, this is the last time that I will speak or write about Awake.  In fact, this might be the last time anybody issues any type …

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A Very Noticeable Young Lady: Lucie Blackman, High Touch Town History & PEOPLE WHO EAT DARKNESS – The Nail That Sticks Out

On May 12 By Cameron Ashley In Books & Comics

In part 9 of THE NAIL THAT STICKS OUT, we delve into the case of Lucie Blackman, the gaijin hostess who never left Roppongi alive.

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The Ten Most Dangerous Broads In Film

On April 18 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

It’s Ladies’ Night at the Complex. We’ve covered a pretty broad spectrum of shady characters over the past few months around here, but with Mother’s Day coming up in a few weeks, we felt it …

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Apocalypse Whores: Seijun Suzuki’s GATE OF FLESH

On April 14 By Cameron Ashley In Movies & TV

Welcome to post-World War II Tokyo. The Occupied City. It’s a crime-fest. Aside from yakuza-run markets, gang wars, gambling, and seemingly everybody on the grift, prostitution  is so utterly widespread, there’s even a governmental department …

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STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON: My 8th Grade Dream Comes True

On April 11 By Jimmy Callaway In Movies & TV

Yeah, feast your eyes on that little piece of hipster cred.  That is my official membership card in the N.W.A fan club, acquired in the halcyon days of 1991, when I was even more suburban …

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What Are The Odds That INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Will Turn Out To Be A Crime Movie?

On April 8 By Jimmy Callaway In Movies & TV

Though largely regarded as humorists, directors Joel and Ethan Coen have produced some of the finest crime movies ever committed to film.  Blood Simple, Miller’s Crossing, and their adaptation of No Country for Old Men …

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Odds That Oliver Stone’s SAVAGES Will Be Any Good?

On April 2 By Jimmy Callaway In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

Director Oliver Stone is bringing Don Winslow’s SAVAGES to the big screen.  But will it be any good? “Bet.” Don Winslow’s 2010 novel Savages is one of those books you chide yourself for not reading …

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5 Raunchiest Crimes on AMERICAN HORROR STORY

On April 1 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

They call it American Horror Story. FX Network named it wrong. It’s not particularly American—California is only technically in America. Above all, it’s not really a “horror story” either. Horror generally requires characters you care about. But …

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In The Mick Of Time: 7 Best Irish-American Crime Flicks

On March 17 By Josh Converse In Movies & TV

There’s always something that’s just a little dirtier about Irish crime movies.  Irish movie mobsters don’t wear silk suits and don’t tip off an impending whacking with a kiss on the cheek. In fact, in …

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Setting the mood: Mass Effect 3 Take Earth Back trailer

On February 26 By John Markley In Gaming

Bioware recently put out a new trailer for Mass Effect 3, entitled “Take Earth Back.” I quite liked it, and it’s a nice example of how a trailer like this can be effective that’s worth …

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Why AWAKE Is About To Become The Best Show On Television*

On February 17 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

*For those who are still jonesing for something to fill the void in their life left by Lost. Just to get past the nagging qualifiers, I’ve been hyping this show since the moment I heard the …

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My Valentine’s Date With BUTCH FATALE

On February 14 By Cameron Ashley In Books & Comics

A few months back, I ploughed through Jungle Street by Don Elliott. Elliott (the pseudonym of SF master Robert Silverberg) wrote numerous smutty novels (such as Escape To Sindom, Sex Gang and Party Girl), the kind which once flooded the market …

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The 10 Perviest Crime Films

On February 12 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

Crime films give every genre a run for its money when it comes to getting hardcore. Murder, torture, kidnapping—they have it all and in many cases, they show it all. Even the lion’s share of …

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Silent House – Elizabeth Olsen Screams With Talent

On February 12 By Matthew C. Funk In Movies & TV

Silent House holds a lot of dark splendor for such a lean feature. This trim 88-minute thriller is rendered in a single shot. That artistic effort alone makes it worth the price of admission. It braids …

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