10 Overlooked Movies of 2009
Tired of seeing the same movies on all the top ten of 2009 lists? Grady Hendrix lists his own “highly subjective list of the Top 10 movies (plus two extras) that were overlooked in 2009.”
Kick-Ass Trailer
Kick-Ass has some, well,… pretty good trailers. (thanks, Tera and Rebecca)
Action Comics No. 1
Action Comics No. 1, brothers and sisters.
10 Comics I Liked in 2009
It’s that time of year when writers list the year’s best things. This year, some people are listing the decade’s best. And, oh, my temples ache because if there’s someone who manages to read every comic every year for a decade, let alone every comic setting fans a-twitter, […]
Market Forces Unleashed in Iron Man 2
It’s the invisible hand of the market– Tony Stark privatizes world peace and runs into a little competition from Mickey Rourke’s Ivan Vanko / Whiplash in the trailer for Iron Man 2.
Scarred by SuperFriends
Friends, I wasn’t always the superhero-loving comics reader you see before you. I underwent a tribulation, a trial of faith, wandering in a wilderness without capes. My resistance to superheros and the Justice League of America in particular stemmed from one root: The SuperFriends. I can’t, in general, […]
The Cultural Gutter 