Season two of Daredevil dropped onto Netflix yesterday and I watched all 13 episodes in a binge. To the show’s credit, the time flew by pretty damn quickly. I was a huge fan of season one, being most impressed by Marvel finally willing to go a little darker. The characters were compelling, the fights...
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Welcome to SuperChomp a new podcast starring Mike and Jordan that talks about comics, superheroes, and their impact on entertainment culture. In Episode One: Rumble in Metropolis, Mike and Jordan give their take on everything we’ve seen so far from Batman v. Superman and Captain America: Civil War. They’re both super excited for what...
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Welcome to Part 4 of my countdown of the 100 Greatest Horror films! You can reads Parts 1, 2, and 3 right here. Once again, the numbers are basically arbitrary until we get to the top twenty or unless otherwise stated. These are simply the 100 horror films that have had the most profound...
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If you take a look at my list of 100 greatest games, you’ll find a healthy selection of classic JRPGs. As a product of the late 1980s and 1990s I’ve grown accustomed to what I played as a child. Older JRPGs were smaller games, peaceful games, games that took place in little, distant worlds....
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10 Cloverfield Lane is a movie that works on subverting expectations – for both the audience and its characters. It does this continually throughout its svelte 106 minute runtime, but first with its own name. The title of the film suggests some kind of tie-in to the 2008 found footage monster movie Cloverfield – and...
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It’s Bit-Chomp Episode 2, a podcast about VIDEO GAMES! Brendan and Mike spend this week talking about the first days of Pokemon and how it completely took over the world. They then delve a little deeper and talk about the popularity of the MetroidVania genre. This obviously leads them to talk about the NX...
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80. It Follows Not a lot of teen horror films have made the list so far. That’s because most of them understand nothing about teenagers and use them only as fodder for mad slashers. That’s not the case with David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows, which uses a simple and ingenious premise to reflect on...
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I’ve got a problem, Chompers, I’ve become addicted to a certain genre. That genre is a hybrid of two of the most celebrated series in videogame history, Metroid and Castlevania. For the past decade or so, this mash-up has been named MetroidVania. I understand it’s not the best of names, but it is a...
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Welcome to Part 2 of my choices for the 100 Greatest Horror films! A word or two about the numbers before we begin: they’re mostly arbitrary. Ranking 100 films and definitively saying that number 65 is better than number 66 and so on and so forth is basically impossible. The numbers aren’t really going...
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House of Cards returned for a fourth season over the weekend and this is far less an event than it used to be. When the show first premiered in 2012, it was touted as Netflix’s first foray into original programming—despite Lilyhammer dropping on the streaming service a few months earlier with a thud—so its...
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