I could not help myself. I watched the television show about Boba Fett, a minor character with a cool helmet from films that came out forty years ago. It was never going to be good. But I just could not help myself. Continue reading 7 Reasons the The Book of Boba Fett Show Was Fucking Stupid
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, and for what could be the last time they’ll be focusing on 1980 – 1989.
Martin Scorsese in the 80’s? Obviously it’s time to talk about Robert De Niro! And stand-up comedy! And boxing! Oh… well, two out of three ain’t bad! Yes, we chose Rupert Pupkin over Jake LaMotta. Feel free to yell about it.
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 82: The King of Comedy
Plot summary: Jennifer Walters accidentally absorbs some of her cousin, Bruce Banner’s blood, transforming her into a very different kind of Hulk…
Continue reading Marvel Mondays – She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: Episode 1
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, and for what could be the last time they’ll be focusing on 1980 – 1989.
Is Deckard a Replicant? What stupid thing did Matt do at midnight? How has he managed to make yet another episode about Batman the Animated Series? We’ve got answers to all these questions and more!
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 81: Blade Runner
Elaine May got the chance to direct four films, and all four ranged from good to great to all-time classic. Hollywood repeatedly kept her in the dog house, and she did not (as of yet) direct another film after Ishtar in 1987. It’s criminal. She was/is clearly one of the most valuable and entertaining voices the medium has ever had. Continue reading Ranking the Elaine May Films
‘Guilty’, ‘The Cat’ & ‘The Black Cat’
Jerome and Brian begin their look at the penultimate season of the the mid-90s Spider-Man. They discuss the more feminine writing style and how Felicia Hardy gets a full blown character arc. Join us for a good slate of episodes before things go down in a big way next week.
Continue reading The Superhero Pantheon – Spider-Man ’94: Episodes 42-44
‘Goblin War!’ & ‘Turning Point’
Jerome and Brian finish up their look at the third season of the mid-90s Spider-man with two very strong episodes. All that can be said is Madame Web stinks. Listen to this episode for more on why.
Continue reading The Superhero Pantheon – Spider-Man ’94: Episodes 40-41
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, and for what could be the last time they’ll be focusing on 1980 – 1989.
A contender to Heat‘s crown as ‘possibly the best film we’ve ever covered’ has entered the arena. Is this the most handsome any man has ever looked? What happened in the prequel? How will Matt find a way to make this about Batman? Let’s find out!
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 80: The Thing
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is set in an imaginary world where the biggest problem with the police is that they were racist and working on their homophobia…**within** the police force. As in, whites cops used to be racist to black…cops…and now slowly but surely straight cops are now much less homophobic to gay…cops.
The police are accepted as this benign institution that never does anything wrong and merely is just a moderately high-functioning government institution that solves crimes. This is a major and dangerous myth.
What is strange about this dynamic is that that fantastical premise is asked to be accepted for very little drama about actual police work that the characters do. They might as well just work in a post-office or DMV or a school or animal control. Which is to say unlike other Michael Schur created shows, this show is less about saying anything about anything and really just about being funny and doing jokes. And Brooklyn Nine-Nine is almost shockingly good at being funny and telling jokes. Continue reading Ranking the Brooklyn Nine-Nine Seasons
The Reel World’s Indiana Jones “Content”
Make sure to listen to our site’s podcast episode on Raiders of the Lost Ark.
8 Thoughts on the Harrison Ford Episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
The 7 Worst Parts of Indiana Jones & the Crystal Skull
Ranking the Indiana Jones Films
Now, I am not an Indiana Jones nut or anything. I am a fan of Harrison Ford though, and that makes any Indiana Jones film intriguing to me. I write all of that to say that I do not really care all that much about Indiana Jones and my initial reaction to Crystal Skull was mild disappointment.
All these years later, I have finally watched it again. It is disappointing. Beyond that though, it was much more remarkably bad than I had remembered. In fact, some of the things that made it bad, have been infecting big franchise films ever since. Continue reading The 7 Worst Parts of Indiana Jones & the Crystal Skull
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