The Reverse Gatekeeping of The She-Ra Reboot
She-Ra’s reboot was poorly received by old fans because they reboot these shows for adults instead of children
Category: TV and Movies
How a BIONICLE Flash Game Launched LEGO’s Comeback
BIONICLE-a portmanteau for “biological chronicle”-marked LEGO’s first foray into original, story-based action…and saved the company
For All Mankind: A Peek Into What Could Have Been
Why For All Mankind is so arresting: it shows an America that wasn’t stagnating culturally, one willing to take risks even at great cost
Sunday Morning! “La Strada” by Federico Fellini
Fellini’s heartbreaking archetypal story of how, in life, Experience comes to kick the snot out of Innocence.
Darth Vader Visits HR
Darth Vader: Your powers are growing weak, old man.
HR [aggravated]: Age is a protected class as well, Lord Vader. I understand that you are under a lot of stress…
Game of Thrones: The Subversiveness of Liking Sansa Stark
April 17 being the 10th anniversary of Game of Thrones, I’ll seize this opportunity to write about my favorite character ever, Sansa Stark.
The Hunger Games: I Volunteer As Conscript
It’s pretty unfair to say, “but The Hunger Games characters had their agency removed!” I mean, yeah, duh, that was kind of the point.
Shin Godzilla: The King of the Monsters, Starting From Scratch
Didn’t get your fill of giant monsters with “Godzilla vs. Kong”? There is the Japanese box office and critical smash, “Shin Godzilla.”
The Race For The 93rd Best Picture Oscar: The Contenders
The favorite to win Best Picture Oscar is a cursed place to be since the preferential ballot and the expansion of nomination slots became a reality.
Top 10 Films of 2020
While the “Oscar year” was extended through February 2021, I decided to limit my top 10 films of 2020 to the calendar year.
Game of Thrones: GRRM, Fan Fiction, and the Pearls of Irritated Oysters
In my eyes, Game of Thrones & George RR Martin have done but one unforgivable thing, and that unforgivable thing is dissing fan fiction
Teaching 90s Kids Language Skills Via Mass Murder Through Advertising
I had blocked this from my memory until this 90s flashback dropped into the timeline this morning: The strange and complete history of Muzzy
Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel Deserves a Re-Evaluation
Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel has perhaps one of the most confusing legacies of a modern superhero film. It deserves a second look.
Sunday Morning! “How Proust Can Change Your Life” BBC2
I’m feeling a bit under the weather this week, so I think I will let Ralph Fiennes and the BBC fill in for me with “How Proust Can Change Your Life”
Game of Thrones: Everyone in Westeros is Gonna Die
The Night King may be gone, the war may be over, but the forces of death have only just begun to stalk Westeros.
Game of Thrones: Ready, Willing, and Ableism
The eyeroller disdainfully says “Game of Thrones is just show!” But problematic beliefs like ableism are like belly buttons, we all got em.
The Race For The 93rd Best Picture Oscar: The Nomination Stage
Of course to win the race for the Best Picture Oscar one must get nominated, so here are my top 25 contenders for the big award’s nomination
Game of Thrones: The Awesomization of Sam Tarly
Samwell Tarly is an intelligent, kind, but cowardly and physically inept young man…until his TV Game of Thrones awesomization
Aesthetics Revisited: A Lutheran, Catholic School, and Brideshead
I invite you to be enthralled with Brideshead Revisited, which makes a television masterpiece of a literary masterpiece
Beaks & Ballots: The Penguin, Politics, and Populism
Gotham was never the same after The Penguin gained an interest in politics. Neither was politics, for that matter.
