Ranking Every Spider-Man Film

Spider-Man: No Way Home seems to be an interesting product of almost twenty years of Spider-Man movies. That makes this the perfect moment to check back on the previous eight Spider-Man movies with the goal of coming to a consensus: which is the best? 8. Amazing Spider-Man 2 I struggle to articulate what I don’t…

Let the Wheel of Time Covers Be Weird Again

Next week, Amazon Prime will be launching its adaptation of The Wheel of Time series. This is one of the logical successors to Game of Thrones; So, over the course of the past few years, I’ve been reading Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. At the rate of one book per year, I’ve read the…

The Hero’s Journey of Squid Game

*THIS POST HAS SPOILERS FOR SQUID GAME* I have read a handful of comments online vaguely complaining that the ending of Squid Game. The ones that have gone into more detail complain about the last scene in which Seung Gi-Hun decides not to board a plane to visit his daughter in America, instead deciding to…

Ranking the Episodes of Over the Garden Wall

Over the Garden Wall, for everyone who has not yet watched it, is an undiscovered gem. This 10-episode miniseries ran on Cartoon Network in 2014, and tells the story of two brothers wandering through a deep and dark forest called The Unknown, and all of the whimsical, creepy, and odd encounters they have along the…

Remedial Chaos Theory, 10 years later

Last year, I started a series where I had planned to review every episode of Community, as I had done with Game of Thrones. Surely, it would be easy, since the episodes were shorter, and I wouldn’t have to have a long review for all episodes. That series didn’t continue beyond the first 10 reviews,…

Grading the casting of the Upcoming Super Mario Bros. Movie

Over the past week, the internet was ablaze with mockery and outrage at the casting of the Super Mario Bros. And that outrage is fair, because every casting choice was ridiculous. But also, it was a touch unfair, because the studio behind it was Illumination, and if you had any expectations for this movie that…

The Suicide Squad and Antagonistic Banter

***This post will have spoilers for The Suicide Squad and the first season of Game of Thrones*** After watching James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, I found myself coming to realize that there’s a certain action-adventure trope I love, that I thought this movie did both very well, and could have done better. I suppose there…

Pirates of the Caribbean 4: Is the most most expensive movie ever made even any good?

My post last week was about Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and even though you might not think about it, On Stranger Tides – even a decade after its release – remains the most expensive movie ever made. Compared to the first three films in the franchise, On Stranger Tides is considerably less…

The Most Expensive Movie Ever Made

This week, I found myself thinking, as I often do, of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. The tweet which made me think of it was a picture of Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest which said “Still can’t believe this was CGI work from 2006.” And that’s true, the…

The Scope and Scale of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

So, this past week, I just finished playing through Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for the first time, and like many fans of the series, I was incredibly impressed by it. It’s an open-world game, which is perhaps my favorite genre of game. It wasn’t the first time this series having an open-world…