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We Have to Retire the #gamergate Hashtag
Do you want to paint a target on yourself? Go on to any social media site and say something – anything – with the #gamergate hashtag. Regardless of your views on this topic using this phrase...
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The Problems with ‘House of Cards’ Season 3
I didn’t actually mind having sustained a painful injury this weekend – inflicted when my 2 year old daughter launched herself off my ribs and left some damage – because being left confined to the...
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Why the ‘Justice League’ Movies Have Already Failed
In the past few weeks we’ve had the first pictures of our new big screen versions of Aquaman, TV’s new Supergirl and casting for Suicide Squad. DC are putting all their cards on the table and bet. But...
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The Live Action ‘Cinderella’ Is Monumentally Pointless
Film has to have a purpose. A full length feature film is a very expensive project. Even those low budget indie films require big chunks of cash and crowds of people to accomplish. During my less...
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Top 10 Points Where ‘Star Wars’ Fans Lost Faith
It really is the old school fans who keep the Star Wars torch alight. Not that some younger viewers aren’t getting into it, but they’re growing up at the worst point in the franchise history. The...
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The 10 Most Internet Breaking ‘Game of Thrones’ Spoilers
This isn’t a Cracked Photoplasty competition with a bunch of joke entries. These are 100% real Game of Thrones spoilers derived from what happens in the ‘Feast For Crows’ and ‘Dance With Dragons’...
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Does Zack Snyder Think We’re Stupid? A Look at the ‘Dawn of Justice’ Trailer
A couple of years ago the teaser trailer for Man of Steel hit the internet and I wrote a feature about why it didn’t look very good. People were unhappy with this assessment, insisting that it was, in...
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‘Mad Max’ Has Given Us the Most Feminist Action Movie this Decade
I saw Mad Max: Fury Road the other day and it was FREAKING AMAZING. Miller has reminded us that visuals and story should go hand in hand in the cinematic medium, not separated through pages of...
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What the New ‘Poltergeist’ Movie is Really About
So they’ve remade Tope Hooper’s (or Steven Spielberg, depending on who you ask) classic horror Poltergeist. This will come as no shock to anyone who’s been alive for the past decade. Unlike most of the...
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Another Talk About the ‘Game of Thrones’ Rape Controversy
We’ve already posted one article about this topic. I was a bit relieved when Darth Gandalf said he was writing a piece because it felt like it should be addressed but I had no idea what I wanted to say...
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Why Every New ‘Terminator’ Movie Is Failing
So we got around to watching Terminator: Genisys and…well…it was not a good movie. It recycles chunks of the old films and the plot is a confused mess, with 90% of it being exposition. And every one...
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‘Unfriended’ Is Unexpectedly Great
Yes, that haunted Skype movie. Where a bunch of friends are tormented by an unseen figure via the internet, leading to murder and whatnot. Let’s get this out of the way now: Unfriended is a shitty...
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Why Does Everyone Hate ‘Pixels’?
The new Chris Columbus directed Adam Sandler vehicle, an ode to arcade games of the 1980s called Pixels, has been released and the response has been pretty poor. In fact, publishing the most creative...
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A Long Winded Rant About the ‘Minions’ Movie (and the Trend They Represent)
The sheer amount of laziness and pointlessness behind this movie pisses me off more than it reasonably should. Yes, it’s just a kids movie and who cares, but I really hate what this movie represents....
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Why Does Everyone Hate ‘Fantastic Four’?
Oh boy, here we go again. We had a similarly themed article concerning Pixels a few weeks ago, a movie aimed squarely at the geek market that failed abysmally. Now we have Fantastic Four, another big...
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The Significance of Black Panther In The MCU & Beyond
Captain America, Iron Man, Batman, Superman & Thor. Each one of these superheroes has various similarities. Thor and Superman are physical powerhouses. Batman...
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‘Force Friday’ Represents Everything Wrong with ‘Star Wars’
Did you know there’s a new Star Wars movie coming out this year? It’s been hard to miss, especially with the marketing and merchandise blitz that will come with it. Wait, I mean already started....
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Every New Show Is the Same Regardless of Genre
A couple of years ago the BBC produced a show that would revisit a classic character in a modern context to great acclaim: Sherlock. Along with the classic stories and the perfect casting of the leads...
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The 5 People You Don’t Want to Play Board Games With
Playing tabletop games is one of my favourite social activities. I loved them as a kid and have been embracing the current renaissance brought about by the influx of European style games like ‘Settlers...
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Prof. Annalise Keating is Terrible at her Job (How to Get Away With Murder)
So this past weekend I had a stack of papers to grade. When doing this I like to have a popcorn type show playing – it helps me keep focus. I went with the first season of How to Get Away With Murder...
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