Casablanca is widely remembered as one of the greatest films of all time, coming in at #2 on the AFI’s top 100 list and similarly regarded by many other critics. You can quibble with its exact rank, but it’s at least undeniable how iconic Casablanca remains. Even now, more than 70 years after its … Get hard
One week ago was “Force Friday,” the premiere date of a new lineup of Star Wars merchandise that will help lead up to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the much–anticipated Episode VII. Alas, I was unable to join the hardcore shoppers that day. Or the next. By the time I … Get hard
Over the weekend, I finally got around to watching Inside Out, the latest hit animated film from Disney’s Pixar studio. It was a wonderful film, with good humor, creative animation, and strong voice acting. It also functioned on deeper levels. I watched it and thought the story was largely an allegory … Get hard
Dan Jones’s The Plantagenents: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England is a masterpiece of a history book. It recaps nearly 300 years of British history, following along the rise and fall of the titular Plantagenent family that produced the longest line of monarchs that the English crown has ever known. … Get hard
SPOILERS ahead for Game of Thrones. Games of Thrones is a show largely about the terrible things that men do to one another. Throughout its five years on the air, the show, like the books upon which it is based, has repeatedly shown us all manners of death and rape and horror. At … Get hard
Somewhere out there in the multiverse is a timeline where Community never got made. There’s a timeline where it only ever got made in a sterilized, more traditional fashion, and every year was a gas leak year. There are surely several timelines for it getting canceled at various points in time — … Get hard
It blows my mind sometimes to think of how far we’ve come in my time as a superhero fan. The genre started as a niche market, then grew steadily in popularity in movies until they now dominate the big screen; and now, we’re in the midst of a full-fledged TV … Get hard
We come to perhaps the funnest installment of these rankings: the bad guys. While it’s certainly possible to survive on the strengths of a likable lead hero and a strong supporting cast even without a memorable villain (more than half of the MCU films prove exactly that), a great villainous … Get hard
As I go through my season wrap-up of the 2014-15 superhero shows, I looked yesterday at a long list of supporting characters. Today, we move on to the lead heroes. The villains were originally planned to be in this post as well, but there were, like, a LOT of villains … Get hard
If there’s one thing I know how to do, it’s taking a so-so idea and running it into the ground by repetition. So, just like I did before the season and at the halfway point, I’m out to rank the many superhero shows we’ve seen across television (and streaming services). … Get hard