I, uh... I already broke my own system. See, I'm writing this on December 30th, and I've had the article and the Letterboxd images up for a day or so thinking "Well, surely I won't watch any more 2021 new releases by the first!". And then I watched Encanto today. Whoops! But no matter; it... Continue Reading →
I watched over 200 movies in the year 2021, easily and happily meeting the goal I had set for myself. I am... not going to rank every movie I saw this year. That would be really hard. And by that I mean, I might get bored and do it eventually because I am lame and... Continue Reading →
I could have seen sub-dividing this topic out even further after I had gotten started. With September being upon us, and the ninth month of the year typically being when new seasons of television start, I decided it would be a good time to do our long-awaited Top Ten Television Show Theme Songs list. (Now,... Continue Reading →
In a lot of forms of media, the antagonists are every bit as gripping--if not more so!--than the heroes themselves. Look no further than professional wrestling. A lot of wrestling stories are centered around a babyface's trials and tribulations against the heels that seek to destroy him. But so often, it's the heels who really... Continue Reading →
I want to start this off with a shout-out to SWO Productions for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this great challenge (don’t forget to vote for this as the best of these four Top 10 lists, because it will be). My name is Kalvin and you can find me weekly on The Magic... Continue Reading →
I regretted this... almost instantly. This was, you see, supposed to be a list of ten. My ten favorite comic book artists. Easy peasy. I'm going to do a follow up on writers, sure, but I figured I would start with the men and women who bring the writers' ideas to life. And all I... Continue Reading →
It's weird that it's taken so long to get here. A hundred-plus comic reviews. Dozens upon dozens of articles on the genre. Lists of all sorts. And I've never just sat down and written up a list of my ten favorite comic book characters? That's not entirely true. On the Ghosts of the Stratosphere podcast,... Continue Reading →
Well. This has been a disappointing summer. Stupid pandemics! Anyway, earlier this summer, back in June, we covered the best Summer Blockbusters ever released. But summer isn't all about movies! After all, you can't watch a new movie while you are poolside. You can't enjoy the new smash film while you are parasailing. There's no... Continue Reading →
I was improperly raised on horror movies as a child, as I have detailed before. In addition to the semi-regular Jason-based nightmares that are just ingrained in my DNA at this point, it has given me a lifelong love of the genre. Horror cinema just combines some of the best parts of every other field of... Continue Reading →
Here's the thing about me... I am not much of a gamer. I LIKE video games; I PLAY video games damn frequently. But it's more that I'm not good at games, and because of that, I tire of individual titles easily. I also have a bad penchant for buying games and either NEVER playing them... Continue Reading →
(The Playlist of my Top Ten! Play it in the background while you read for maximum effect!) It's mid-December, so it's List Challenge time! What's more, it's still the end of the 2010's, so we have another Best of the 2010's list. As you might remember, in November, we presented you with our Best Non-Comic Book Movies... Continue Reading →
Sure, maybe this isn't thematic for November, BUT it dawned on me that we are nearing not just the end of the year, but the end of the DECADE! The 2010's are rapidly leaving us, and who knows what the 2020's have in mind? Depending on whether you say "Twenty-twenties" or "Two-thousand-twenties", they may bring... Continue Reading →
WrestleMania is rad. Whether you like professional wrestling or not, there's still a national mystique around WrestleMania. It's wrestling's Superbowl, it's Academy Awards. The biggest night of the wrestling calendar. And while the general wrestling viewing audience is comparatively small nowadays, there is still a curiosity about 'Mania every year. Because so many of us... Continue Reading →
Am I alone in just not liking Jean Grey? I mean, apparently not, but in my recent Top Heroines of Marvel article, Jean Grey was the most divisive character in the comments. Some said my leaving her out was "tragic" or "outrageous"; others noted she is "meh" or "sucks". She didn't make my Top Ten,... Continue Reading →
I've got two of these lists coming by the time Women's History Month ends. I bet you can guess what the second might be. (I bet you can also guess, if you've ever paid attention to anything I've ever written, who #1 will be here. I'm nothing if not consistent!) I've long been a big... Continue Reading →
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