9x Top Writer. Pop Culture Geek. Gamer. All-Around Nerd.
I was born 9 months after Star Wars premiered in 1977, which naturally suggests my mom’s womb quickened on its own after she saw the film. I get it — these movies make me feel things too. …
Winter came and it was all bullshit
The teaser trailer for the first Game of Thrones (GOT) spin-off dropped last week. I watched it a few days later, just the once. While the trailer strives to evoke the same sense of mystery and wonder that pervaded GOT, I found myself completely unmoved. I’m not alone in that…
Based on watching them actually play
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is not really a game you can win. So it may seem silly to rank players — by what metric shall we assign greatness? Character level? Degree of roleplay? Witty one-liners?
I’ve ranked the players according to the only measure that truly matters: was their game…
Ennui, the modern condition, and the rebirth of the Matrix franchise
So the trailer for Matrix 4 dropped, and while it raises a good many questions — including such minor ones as how the shit are Neo and Trinity alive — the thing that struck me most was how deliberately familiar it feels. …
There is no such thing as obscurity any more
Spoiler free because I haven't even seen Shang-Chi yet.I’m a big fan of Kim’s Convenience. So when it was announced that Simu Liu was joining the MCU, I was super pumped. Simu is funny and definitely has the look of a superhero. …
My favorite ones anyway
Spoilers for Avengers: Endgame, Cobra Kai, Harry Potter, and some older movies you should’ve seen years ago.I love learning about iconic movie moments that were a result of spur-of-the-moment ingenuity. Is it any coincidence that many of these moments are the best parts of their respective films?
I compiled…
Thunderdome
“I helped this old lady and she bought me a churro.”
Thunderdome is a FanFare series where our writers good-naturedly debate some matter of pop culture and then leave it to the readers to decide. Read each post and vote at the bottom!In many ways, a fantasy draft of MCU characters is sort of the culmination…
Thunderdome
This week, on a very special edition of Thunderdome…
Thunderdome is a FanFare series where our writers good-naturedly debate some matter of pop culture and then leave it to the readers to decide. Thunderdome tomorrow will be a bit unorthodox. Last week, I roped Paul Combs, Simon Dillon, and John Bullock into joining me for a MCU Fantasy Draft…
No thanks I’d rather not
Abraham Lincoln has a famous quote about cutting down a tree: ‘give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe’.
Four hours!? I get that they didn’t have the Internet in Abe’s day, that electricity and soap were novelties, but…
