Author: Michael Thomas

Ranking Analyzing & Predicting the 2021 Academy Award for Best Motion Picture

Mike Thomas and Jerome Cusson debated the 2017 Academy Award Best Picture Nominees in the form of a podcast. In 2018, we went with a written preview (which contained a frankly amazing HELLBOY gag). We came back yet again in 2019 with no change in the system and then again in 2020.

BUT THIS YEAR IN OUR LIKELY FINAL YEAR DOING THIS COLUMN, we are SHAKING things up. Instead of ranking a fairly mediocre slate of films, we split the films up and did a small write-up on the merits of each film and then out some predictions at the end. Continue reading Ranking Analyzing & Predicting the 2021 Academy Award for Best Motion Picture

Search for Justice – 4 Takeaways from Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox

I will be checking out these Justice League animated movies as much as possible. I will be using the same four questions I use here to assess each film.
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Search for Justice – 4 Takeaways from Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

I will be checking out these Justice League animated movies as much as possible. I will be using the same four questions I use here to assess each film.
Continue reading Search for Justice – 4 Takeaways from Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

Search for Justice – 4 Takeaways from Justice League: The New Frontier

I will be checking out these Justice League animated movies as much as possible. I will be using the same four questions I use here to assess each film. Matt and I actually discussed this film before. I have no memory of making this podcast! [I am listening to it right now. Good episode!]

Best League Member? Continue reading Search for Justice – 4 Takeaways from Justice League: The New Frontier

Search for Justice – 4 Takeaways from Justice League: The Snyder Cut

I will be checking out these Justice League animated movies as much as possible. I will be using the same four questions I use here to assess each film.

Here is the same article but on The Whedon Cut.

Continue reading Search for Justice – 4 Takeaways from Justice League: The Snyder Cut

Search for Justice – 4 Takeaways from Justice League: The Whedon Cut

Okay, fine. Facial hair is not the ONLY important thing worth considering in the tragic Joss Whedon cut of Justice League. I will be checking out these Justice League animated movies as much as possible. I will be using the same four questions I use here to assess each film. I have opted to do a little preview of this series with the two versions of the live-action Justice League film while it is so much in the news. Continue reading Search for Justice – 4 Takeaways from Justice League: The Whedon Cut

4 Crucial Thoughts After Re-Watching Justice League Before #TheSnyderCut

Justice League is your average bad film. Somehow Zack Snyder fans came to believe there existed a separate “Snyder Cut” of the film that would be more true to the film’s original spirit or something. No such cut existed, but Warner Brothers is financing an absurdly expensive reshoot. While Snyder and all of his films are cringe, this is all a hilarious takedown of Joss Whedon so it’s a clear net positive. Anyway, here are some hyper serious thoughts on The Whedon Cut.

4. MUSTACHE

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5 Thoughts on Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition

Previous Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice coverage at The Reel World:

Ranking the Batmen (where Matt argues the Ultimate Edition has value!)

The Tape Crusaders Episode #8

Five Things About Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice That Do Not Completely Suck

With Zack Snyder’s version of Justice League getting released soon, this will probably be the only relevant time for me to examine THE ULTIMATE EDITION of Snyder’s Batman V Superman. Here be my thoughts.

Government’s Fetishization of Elon Musk Lex Luthor is Tragically on Point

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