Jul 5 2016
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Now that the long night of Game Of Thrones’ offseason has begun, we can take stock of its main players’ journeys.…
Christopher Curley
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In nearly a decade as a Mental Organism Designed Only for Writing, Chris has spilled ink on everything from luxury weddings to the perils of diet soda consumption. His passions–comic books, movies, record collecting, cocktail history–have been lovingly described as "hipster shit." He lives in New Orleans, LA, and cooks a pretty mean gumbo.
Jun 9 2016
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For Star Trek fans, there’s been surprisingly little fanfare surrounding the show’s 50th anniversary (even more so…
Jun 7 2016
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Scoring Nick Offerman to be a spokesperson for your scotch whisky portfolio has the feel of both marketing coup and…
May 19 2016
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For adults of a certain age, MTV’s TRL (or Total Request Live to those of us of an even more certain age) was a…
Apr 29 2016
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Great news, Rick And Morty fans: Everyone’s favorite insectoid assassin, Krombopulus Michael, lives. Or rather,…
Apr 28 2016
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Apr 26 2016
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In concept, a fan-made animated series about Nintendo’s Star Fox games following the continuity of Star Fox 64…
Apr 26 2016
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The success of Bryan Singer’s first X-Men film in 2000 arguably kicked off the modern era of superhero filmmaking,…
Apr 22 2016
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There’s a reason why the intricate cogs-and-gears opening sequence of HBO’s Game Of Thrones is created in a computer…
Apr 20 2016
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Letterboxes, the black boxes that appear on either the top and bottom or sides of film and television shows to…
Apr 13 2016
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Erik Bauersfeld, the voice behind Star Wars’ striking crustacean commander, Admiral Ackbar, and speaker of one of…
Apr 6 2016
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One of the great and frustrating things about the internet is that while it promises incredible depth and variety,…
Mar 28 2016
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How does a cinema sin denoting careless technique become a cinema staple assuring authenticity and verisimilitude?…
Mar 15 2016
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Understanding the intricacies–and, hell, even the broad strokes–of Marvel’s multiple title-spanning Civil War comic…
Mar 15 2016
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One of the hallmarks of good CGI (and great visual effects in general) is its invisibility. Success means never…
Mar 9 2016
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Blade Runner is a movie full of suggested mysteries, some of the biggest of which—like “Is Harrison Ford’s Rick…
Feb 24 2016
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Last weekend’s episode of The Walking Dead took a break from the show’s usual grim nihilism, almost overcorrecting…
Feb 19 2016
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Depending on your age, Josh Burdick’s 45-minute slice-of-life home video “April 1990 - Video I Shot Of My Typical…
Feb 18 2016
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Never challenge the determination of a dedicated fan base. In 2006, George Lucas claimed that all quality prints of…
Feb 17 2016
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To take a series of novels and reduce them to just their punctuation would have been a herculean manual task in the…