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Marvel

curated: “Loki as Other: Why Do Queer and Female Viewers Love the Trickster?”

Wed, Aug 04, 2021
3 comments

E.J. Beaton has written a fabulous thing at Tor.com about the appeal of Loki, particular as portrayed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Tom Hiddleston, and even more particularly as he is depicted in the Disney+ series Loki…

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Black Widow movie review: spy cruft

Fri, Jul 09, 2021
15 comments

Dishearteningly less concerned with giving Natasha Romanoff her own story than with setting up her MCU replacement. Superfluous, backward-looking, its bit of feminism belabored. She deserved better.

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Extraction movie review: meet the sociopathic white savior

Mon, Apr 27, 2020
25 comments

Who are we rooting for in this accidental parody of the empty absurdity of modern action films? Everyone is awful, or a human macguffin. This is soulless technical wankery bereft of humor or humanity.

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movie-related flash-fiction freebie: “Disney Dystopia”

Mon, Sep 02, 2019
4 comments

“Hey, so you wanna go to the disneys tonight?”

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curated: Natalie Portman announced as Thor, and the manbaby fanboys are freaking out

Sun, Jul 21, 2019
28 comments

Delicate-snowflake misogynist whiny-ass crybaby fanboys lose their shit… again.

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Avengers: Endgame movie review: with a bang *and* a whimper

Wed, May 01, 2019
148 comments

A miraculous blend of grief and humor. Big, bold, brash, then sneakily meta. I am only starting to get my head around the emotional and creative right-hook of it. A fitting end (for now) to the MCU.

| 148 Comments

Amazon Adventure 3D documentary review: historical jungle expedition, for science

Wed, Apr 10, 2019
3 comments

Stunning photography — perhaps the last time anyone will haul IMAX cameras into the Amazon — a bit of adventure, and a solid, simple, inspirational science lesson. Everything an IMAX doc should be.

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Shazam! movie review: unmarvelous

Tue, Apr 02, 2019
104 comments

Nothing matters in this literal adolescent-male power fantasy, a cheesy mishmash of nonsense and low stakes. Anyone who needs at least a bit of meat in their superhero tales will be disappointed.

| 104 Comments

Captain Marvel movie review: superpowered female SJW invites manbaby nerds to suck it

Sun, Mar 10, 2019
399 comments

An indie ethos comes to the comic-book movie, upending the origin story and offering a female superhero who throws out the boys’ rule book, goes her own way, and stalks among us with easy confidence.

| 399 Comments

Glass movie review: superhero ’splaining

Tue, Jan 22, 2019
22 comments

Earnest and humorless, this is a faux-intellectual Comic Book Guy ponderously well-actually-ing us about shallow superhero tropes and clichés as if those are the most intriguing bits of these stories.

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