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Strong Female Character Friday: Karen Page (Daredevil)
I've been having a devil of a time (get it?) picking which lead female character from Daredevil should go first for SFC Friday, and I'm still not even sure I've made the right choice. But isn't that...
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'Band of Brothers' Can't Save You - The Cult of Idealized Manhood
Okay. I want to start this off by just saying that I do not consider myself an expert on masculinity or male issues. I'm really not. I'm not a man and I really can't say that I have any real experience...
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RECAP: Hannibal 3x03 - Origin Story
The problem with telling the origin story of a villain is that it ruins the mystique. Much of what makes a character like Hannibal (or the Joker, or many others) frightening, is not being able to...
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NEWS: Hannibal Cancelled, Ava DuVernay to Direct Black Panther
Well, you win some, you lose some. At least that was the case with big pop culture announcements yesterday. On the side of sadness, it seems that NBC will not be renewing Hannibal for a fourth season,...
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Your Pain Demands to Be Felt - 'Inside Out' and Valuing Sadness
There's been so much hoopla about Inside Out in the past week, people going and screaming about how good it is, how much they loved it, and how needs to see it right away. And, I'll be honest, my...
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RECAP: Orphan Black 3x09 - Meet Mommy Dearest
I'm having so many feelings about the fact that this show is over for the season that I'm not sure I can hold it all in. This episode and the finale have been wonderful rollercoasters, but I think what...
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RECAP: Orphan Black 3x10 - In Which My Feelings Have Feelings
I was actually planning on today's recap being Game of Thrones, so that we could all then fall back into the embracing arms of Orphan Black as a palate cleanser, but I figured out something way more...
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"I've Got Family" - Masculinity and Community in 'Fast and Furious
Way way back in the bowels of this blog there's an article I wrote about why we as human beings are so incredibly obsessed with werewolves. I don't really recommend tracking the article down - there's...
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Strong Female Character Friday: Gina Linetti (Brooklyn 99)
It's been kind of an intense week on the blog so far. And, to be honest, it's been kind of an intense few months for me. So instead of getting all sad and mopey this Friday, I think it's time we...
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RECAP: Game of Thrones 5x10 - I'm Completely Over It
Before we even get started, I want to talk about realism in fiction. Because that's the shield that the writers of Game of Thrones, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, hide behind. Realism. The idea that in...
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'Pitch Perfect 2' Is Good But Not Great, and That's Okay
I'm not going to oversell this movie to you guys - it's good, but it's not great. It's a really entertaining film, the kind of movie that you won't regret seeing but also that probably won't change...
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RECAP: Hannibal 3x04 - Frederick Chilton Is Not Nick Fury
Just as a quick reminder, we now have Kyla Furey from Feedback Force doing weekly Hannibal recaps for us! Frederick Chilton is not Nick Furey, but god damn is he ever trying. He got himself a bum eye...
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'The Croods' Isn't Re-Inventing the Wheel, But It's Still Good
I guess I'll start by saying this: if you're looking for a movie that's original, fresh, unexpected, and completely unlike anything you've ever seen, then keep looking. The Croods is none of those...
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HIATUS - A Brief Detour to New England for July 4th
Ah, friends. Chickadees. My fellow human beings. As much as I really love you all and had definitely planned on having content prepared for you so that you wouldn't even notice my absence this week,...
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Strong Female Character Friday: Missandei (Game of Thrones)
Last Friday I made the epic grand announcement that I would no longer be watching or recapping Game of Thrones, not after this disaster of a past season. And that's totally still true. I'm not going...
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RECAP: Hannibal 3x05 - The Threads Pull Together
Just as a reminder, we have the inimitable Kyla Furey of Feedback Force doing Hannibal recaps for us right now. So give it up for Kyla!I was tempted to title this recap “Things Happen So Much,” but I...
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'Lazarus' - Literal Class Warfare and A Call to Arms
I kept trying to think of a way to intro this article, some clever and cool hook that would get you on board and help you see the deep and meaningful nuances and cultural commentaries that I see in...
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Strong Female Character Friday: Octavia Blake (The 100)
It's really no secret at this point that I adore The 100 and all of its various spectacular female characters. I feel like I've made that abundantly clear by now with my loving and only a little bit...
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My Nostalgia Goggles Have Blinded Me - 'Terminator Genisys'
So, to be completely honest, I have absolutely no idea if Terminator Genisys, the most recent installment in the increasingly complex and bizarre Terminator series, is a good movie. I really don't....
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RECAP: Hannibal 3x06 - Everything Happens So Much
Quick reminder that we have Kyla Furey of Feedback Force doing weekly Hannibal recaps for us right now because she is awesome.As I predicted last week, this week’s episode was so chock full of just...
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