Steven Soderburgh’s new film, Side Effects masquerades as a spiritual sequel to Traffic and Contagion but quickly devolves into an early 90s misogynistic thriller.

Beyonce and Destiny’s Child and Beyonce’s all woman tour band, Suga Mama’s were so awesome they may have knocked out power at the Super Bowl.

Five outstanding episodes of television so fannish, indulgent and fun that they’re basically produced fanfic.

This is reprinted with permission from Chris’s personal blog. Chris is a hardcore retro video game enthusiast and when he isn’t play old games so bad they’ll make your eyes bleed he’s performing with his video game band, Gimmick! or playing bass for brentalfloss. I don’t have to tell you that the game Metroid was [...]

Ladies you know how guys are all “we’re tough” and call you delicate? And you note that you have a uterus which is a feat of biological engineering and one of the most durable organs in the human body? And that if you so choose you also have to experience childbirth which can be incredibly [...]

Every year, a critic wraps up the last twelve months by compiling Top Ten lists of the best and worst movies that were released. Hollywood considerately makes this easier by only releasing ten good movies a year, and countless bad ones since everyone would prefer to read about what a pile of shit The Amazing [...]

Oh internet how deeply I am disappointed in you. When Jennifer Lawrence ran up there and the first thing out of her mouth was “I beat Meryl?” She was, in fact referring to the First Wives’ Club. Get it together internet! That’s the movie where three middle aged women do terrible things to their exes [...]

Okay, so I’m going to discuss Amazing Spider-Man 700 and rape subtext and such, but of course if you had any sense you stopped reading at Brand New Day and don’t care. Alright? Spoilers ahead. I’m assuming you know the basic premise of Superior Spider-Man. Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus switch bodies, Spidey dies in Ock’s, [...]

Storytime, kiddies! Back in the dark and primitive time known as the 90s, someone thought of making a new Superman movie. Of course, the people in charge had no way of knowing that they would end up with Superman Returns, so they ran with that. And at one point, the plan was for Kevin Smith [...]

I grew up with a second-wave feminist. My mother brooked no sexist fools. When I confessed I loved The Jetsons she huffed and told me it was sexist drivel. My siblings and I could define patriarchy before we were twelve and we knew all to well how virulent sexism was. In sixth grade I nearly [...]