The Unreality Reading List (Based on Movies You Love) Pt. II
Zack doesn’t write here anymore, but I dug up a post of his that somehow never got published. It’s a sequel to this one which ran some time ago. Well here we are again. Summer…
$9 Movie Trailer: Flight
Many things can define a movie trailer. In some cases, it can simply be the existence of footage for a highly anticipated feature, like The Dark Knight Rises or a new Harry Potter installment. Sometimes…
Walter Corleone: The Shared Evil of the Godfather and Breaking Bad
If you’ve never seen Michael Carleone in Walter White, look harder. Sure, one is a mafia don in 1950’s New Yorkand the other is a methamphetamine distributor in current day New Mexico, but they are,…
Bringing Justice to the Justice League
While Zack is away, here’s his pal Andy Feldman filling in with his thoughts on the theoretical Justice League movie. News broke last week that Ben Affleck was in line to direct Warner Bros.’s attempt…
The Death of Sports Movies
While watching Michael Phelps reaffirm the worthlessness of my life this past week, I was struck with a thought: where have all the good sports movies gone? In a reality where sports as an enterprise…
Real Life Counterparts: King of the Hill
Real Life Counterparts is a column in which a cartoon show is hypothetically cast with real actors. Things get weird. No Ryan Goslings were hurt in the making of this column. King of the Hill…
The Reckoning of Expectations
Is The Dark Knight Rises the movie we deserved instead of the movie we needed? [Note: This article contains major spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises] One of many iconic lines uttered throughout the nine…
The Art of Offending
When I was in high school, trapped in the computer lab not doing my homework, I found my way to that mecca of digital intolerance known as T-Shirt Hell. The concept was simple: the most…
$9 Movie Trailers: Django Unchained
[$9 Trailers is a feature that examines movie trailers, and judges how well (or poorly) they execute their job of making me want to shell out nine bucks to see them.] In today’s installment of…