Back in 2009, a game came out for the iPhone that allowed you to shoot flying objects at structures with the sole purpose of murdering enemies and destroying property. That game was called Crush the Castle, and no one knew or cared about it at all. Later that year, however, innovative people took the mechanics…
It’s hard to believe it, but we are now eight years into the movie experiment that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Starting with Iron Man, the comic book world has quickly taken over the multiplex with stories of superheroes, supervillains, and a bunch of regular people trying not to get killed in the crossfire….
If you’re part of the underground world of crime, you need to be a hardass. Whether you’re a crime boss or just a thug, your reputation means everything, so you can’t come off as a pansy or a wuss in front of your fellow gangsters, lest you destroy your image. That is unless you’re cuddling…
As one of the most anticipated movies of 2016, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice was a polarizing movie before it was even released. With the weight of a thousand fanboys on its shoulders, the pressure was on the production team to make something that could compete with Marvel’s blockbuster Avengers series without seeming like…
In the world of superhero movies, our intrepid champions of truth and justice usually have the following qualities: stoicism in the face of adversity, camaraderie amongst their own and the people they protect, and, above all, a defiance to kill their adversaries, unless absolutely necessary. Deadpool, on the other hand, conveys none of these qualities,…
They say that suffering builds character. In “The Revenant”, one could argue that the amount of suffering our central character endures would build him a character made of solid granite. From the very first scene, in which our hero, Hugh Glass (played very seriously by Leonardo DiCaprio) has to fight off a band of Native…
Star Wars. No two words in the English language call to mind such a broad, expansive universe as these, and for good reason. Ever since a man named George Lucas tried (and failed) to bring Flash Gordon to the big screen, and wound up stitching together a bunch of sci-fi junk instead, has…
