Batman: A Fan’s Quest to Fix Fandom
As Comic book fans, we believe our role in the comics industry to be obvious and undeniable. We are clearly and unarguably the very life force that allows our favorite heroes to thrive. It is through our generously provided love and slavish devotion that these characters have been allowed to endure.
Frankie Cosmos: Next Thing
“I floated in and started living.” These are the first words spoken on Next Thing, Greta Kline’s new full-length as Frankie Cosmos. Few people in music today can encapsulate the feeling of their entire scope as an artist in one line, and there hasn’t been more blunt and simply profound lyrics like this in some time.
5 Overlooked & Rad AF Music Videos
Five incredibly surreal, fun, and strange videos that range from blood-flecked anarchy to staccato dance moves. Inquire within.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
The random wacky premises get wiped clean, though, because these characters are rarely truly offended – everyone seems to have short term memories. Vardalos’ writing reminded me a lot of a sitcom. Alas, sitcoms – at least good ones – should be funny, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 misses the mark quite a bit.
5 Albums for March
5 incredibly great albums that defined March – or at least that you could drink six greyhounds to.
Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday
the advantage of Adventure’s stolen bike was that we could see Pee-Wee hurt by the theft. He goes through emotional changes, at times he is mean to those around him, he becomes depressed, and even interrogates potential suspects. This is the closest Pee-Wee, basically an adult child, got to an emotional arc in his career. By contrast, the goal in Holiday is general fun. Herman is definitely motivated to see Manganiello, but the movie struggles to show the audience what badness happens if he doesn’t get what he wants. We see him in Fairville, an idyllic 1950’s style small town, and he’s happy-go-lucky. Then, he hits the road to go to New York City to find Manganiello, and he’s happy-go-lucky there, too.
Criterion Critique: The Confession
Of no credit to Gavras and his team beyond simply choosing to make a film about London, his story is inherently interesting; London was an actor—in some capacity—in the Spanish civil war; a Jew and a communist, he had spent time in occupied France which lead to his internment in a concentration camp (where, according to the film, one of his children was born); and he endured an undeserving fate as a political pawn of the Soviet Union to indict the West.
March Radness: Best in Basketball Films
America’s Finest City has a spotty record when it comes to basketball. San Diego State was robbed of a birth at the NCAA Tournament and ended up looking dominant in the NIT. Does college basketball really need two tournaments?
Turncoat #1
This is an unconventional sci-fi story, written as an old detective noir. It comes complete with all and layers of grit, grime, and hard-nosed fast talking characters straight out of the 40s that you would expect from that particular genre.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Now, I have to address this one last issue. Contrary to popular belief, no one is ever more excited about comic book movies than comic book readers. With this, though, comes a certain degree of understanding. Comic book fans know that liberties will be taken with the properties they have been reading for decades. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but no one walks into a theater expecting to love a comic book movie more than these fans.
