Mario Katharsis: Red Dead Redemption
When a nerd decides to study theatre seriously, Aristotle’s Poetics is bound to come up. One of the major tenets of the work is catharsis (or katharsis, if you want to be really Greek-y: opa!),…
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5 Incredible Revenge Movies (Not Enough People Have Seen)
I wrote a list about revenge scenes in movies recently, and the more I think about it, the more unhappy with the list I get. I feel like I need to make it up with…
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Movie Recommendation of the Week: Airborne
I’m going to officially go on record in saying that Airborne is easily one of the worst movies of all time. I’m not even remotely kidding here. And yet I think all of you have…
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A Gallery of Assassin’s Creed Fanart by Jael Kolkin
Now I’m not 100% sure of the statistics here but I’m willing to venture that the commercials I’ve seen for Assassin’s Creed III are far and away the earliest commercials before the release of a…
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The Softer Side of Bane
\ Various plot nitpicks aside, I think most of us can agree at this point that Tom Hardy’s performance as Bane was pretty fantastic in The Dark Knight Rises, especially considering the huge shoes he…
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The Walking Dead’s Zombies Escape from TV
httpv://youtu.be/RHPMocTmC08 I’m not quite sure which side to take in the whole AMC vs. Dish Network controversy. AMC has a bunch of awesome shows, so they think that they deserve to charge cable companies more for…
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The Easiest Job on TV
This may have been floating around for quite some time, but I’ll be damned if I’d seen it before someone sent it to me this weekend. It shows the person with the cushiest job in…
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Unreal Movie Review: Step Up – Revolution
When is a movie, not a movie? It’s a question I had to ask myself as I sat through Step Up: Revolution this weekend. It wasn’t under duress, I’ve genuinely been entertained by these movies…
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The Six Best Superhero Themes
In comics, a superhero’s most important asset is his (or her) iconic costume. This is how you know whose book you’re looking at, whether you’re two feet away or across the room. In movies, the…