Ranking the M. Night Shyamalan Films

Films I Still Need To Watch: Wide Awake, The Last Airbender

M. Night is one of the best filmmakers from the last thirty years. I am grateful for his audience and critical comeback in recent years, as it means that I will have the opportunity to get to watch his films in the years to come. Continue reading Ranking the M. Night Shyamalan Films

The Tape Crusaders – Episode 20: Batman: Caped Crusader

Somehow, Mike & Matt have returned to Gotham because DC decided to make the first new Batman cartoon in over a decade!

They discuss the tone of the show, the big creative swings, the villains, Batman himself, the possible future of the series and of course the career of John Vernon.

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Ranking A Song of Ice & Fire Television Seasons

Game of Thrones was a genuine cultural phenomenon. Given how badly it ended, you might forget there was a point when it was perfectly fun genre television. I would even say it’s worth going back and watching some of it. And shockingly enough, the spinoff shows are intriguing so far. Find out which seasons were worth the time.

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The Snyder Cut: Revisited – Epilogue: A Father Twice Over (and Final Thoughts)

The Snyder Cut comes to a close with a LOT of teases of things that would never come to be…

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Mike & Matt’s X-Cellent Adventures – Episode 21: Legion (Season 3)

(Pretend you’re hearing this joke for the first time) After dusting off X-Cellent Adventures to review Deadpool & Wolverine, Mike & Matt just had to clean up some unfinished X-Men business. That’s right, it’s the third and final season of Legion!

We summarise the events so far, discuss THAT episode, the ending, David’s journey, the shrunken cast, Noah Hawley’s career and the X-Men franchise in general.

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The Snyder Cut: Revisited – Part 5: All The Kings Horses

The newly formed Justice League enact their long-shot plan to resurrect Superman, but things don’t go quite as they hoped, and Cyborg is plagued with warnings of the future.

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Ranking the Legion Seasons

Legion was a show that I watched because of X-Men and Noah Hawley. I will probably never watch anything again just because of the presence of either of these components (never mind them combined), but it is notable that even in my late twenties I could be seduced into viewing something because of that. Hawley has proven to be a bag of false goods, but this was probably one of the more consistently strong things he has ever done. Maybe?

 

Some of the many previous X-Men articles on this site:
Top 10 Performances in the X-Men Films
5 Takeaways from Re-Watching X-Men [2000]
8 Takeaways from the “The X-Men Adventure” in Spider-man and his Amazing Friends
7 Takeaways from the Juggernaut Episode of Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
11 Takeaways from the Pryde of the X-Men Pilot
7 Takeaways from The New Mutants
Top 7 Villainous Sidekicks in the X-Men Cinematic Universe

 

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