There’s always something special about a biopic studying a filmmaker. There’s an urge to mimic their style. Pay homage to their craft while inviting us to hold sympathy for them. Ed Wood and The Aviator both did this to great success. Hitchcock mines the same vein and begins with the familiar chords of Alfred Hitchcock’s [...]

A parody on Cracked opens up with Black Widow saying “Then I’ll get right on it. Just as soon as I change into a slightly tighter leather outfit, this one doesn’t quite show the outline of my sphincter.”George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones, complains that “Scarlett Johanssen looked great in that outfit, but [...]

The Bechdel Test is one of my favorite things in the world. There are fewer succinct ways to condemn the entertainment industry than to note its regular failure of the Bechdel Test. When you realize that the majority of movies you will see this year fail the test it’s a horrifying thought. In order to [...]

Do not, under any circumstances, go in to see We Bought A Zoo because you love the story of the family that worked together to purchase and run a zoo in Devon, England. Their story is a beautiful one touched by a tragedy. It is heartwarming. There has been a book. The BBC made a [...]

As a movie fan, one of my favorite hobbies is looking at where projects go left instead of right. For each movie that gets made, there are ten more that are stuck in development hell, often different versions of what finally reaches the screen. So it is with Black Widow, who came achingly close to [...]

  By now everyone has learned that Kim Kardashian, love of my life, has filed for divorce. If you find yourself unmoved, then I would like to shake your hand and maybe buy you a brownie. Now let’s all talk about how her ring is worth 2 million dollars and she doesn’t have to return [...]