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Ranking the Sex and the City Seasons and Films

Sex and the City is one of the most important television shows ever. I had a mildly unusual experience watching the show. I watched most of the show when I was 13-15 years old, and I did not watch it week to week but sporadically on-demand and out of order. So, before re-watching the show in 2023, I had seen just about every single episode but really had no concept of when things happened. Besides the end. Boy, did I ever remember the end of this fucking show. This column will rank all movies and seasons of the Sex and the City world.

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Ranking the Fantastic Four Films

The Fantastic Four is one of the most celebrated superhero comic book teams ever. Despite that though, their cinematic adventures have essentially been one disaster after another. But the need for content exists (both in terms of movie studios and the media click-based ecosystem) so these films are just going to keep coming out I suppose.

We luckily have a fantastic podcast series – Fantastic Fouray – from one-time site editor, Matt Waters, and sporadic site podcaster and contributor, Kevin Ford, breaking down the past, present, and future adventures of the Fantastic Four on the big screen.

Episode #1: The Fantastic Four (Unreleased) & Doomed! Documentary
Episode #2: Fantastic Four (2005)
Episode #3: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Episode #4: FANT4STIC
Episode #5: First Steps

(Also, read: 8 Takeaways from the Black Panther Episode of Fantastic Four)

And with that, it’s time for me to rank all the (futile) attempts to make a Fantastic Four film.

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Fantastic Fouray – Episode 5: The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Kevin Ford is a Fantastic Four superfan who had never seen any of the theatrically released F4 Movies… until now! Each week Matt Waters guides him through uncharted territory as they rate the movies and try to build an all-star cast.

And so we’ve come… to the eeeeend oooof the roooaaad….

Ahem. Sorry. Yes, the podcast is over already as we have completed the journey of Fantastic 4 films that currently exist. Do we finally have our first ‘Reed’? How uncomfortable can Matt make everyone with oversharing? How have Mel Gibson and Jon Voight come up??? Come find out!

Fantastic Fouray – Episode 4: FANT4STIC

With ‘First Steps’ releasing this week we figured it only made sense to dive into one of the most infamous superhero films ever released. SEO, baby! From the director’s on-set behaviour to rushed reshoots to ill-advised sources of inspiration there’s surely nothing positive to say about this film…. right?!?

Fantastic Fouray – Episode 3: Rise of the Silver Surfer

What does the iconic Silver Surfer add to the mix with our returning cast? Does Mark Frost hate his wife? Why are we talking about Party Down and Transformers? Only one way to find out!

Ranking the Melvin Van Peebles Films

Films I Still Need To See: Identity Crisis, Vrooom Vroom Vroooom, Le Conte du ventre plein, Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha

Melvin Van Peebles was a true American genius. His films are as compelling and as interesting as any American director ever.

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Ranking the John Wick Films

The John Wick movies (no matter if they descend into a period of total mediocrity or not) will always have a special place in my heart for being a big part of restoring Keanu Reeves’ status as a big star in Hollywood. Here is how I rank the films (so far). Continue reading Ranking the John Wick Films

Fantastic Fouray – Episode 2: Fantastic Four (2005)

Time to finally rip off the band-aid as Kevin at last experiences the first theatrically released F4 film. How does it align with his memories and expectations of the trailers from 20 years ago? Is anyone here worthy of the All-Star nod? Why is Jessica Alba naked so much? Only one way to find out!

Ranking the Superman Films

Superman has never been a superhero that I was drawn to due to all the obvious reasons about him being too difficult to kill, etc. As I get older, I do find him more fascinating at the very least as a pop culture artifact. And that brings us to this column.

For the purposes of this column, I decided to only count the Superman solo projects. Thus, Man of Steel is the only Snyderverse film being included for an example.

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Ranking the Dennis Hopper Films

It was very late in life that I learned that Dennis Hopper was an interesting filmmaker. I cannot explain exactly why it took so long for me to learn this; I can only guess it’s because all of his films after Easy Rider did not really receive the mainstream recognition and success that his debut did. If you are a fool like I was and ignored his post-Riders work, you owe it to yourself to check a lot of them out. They kick ass.

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