“What went wrong?” That appears to be the question on everyone’s mind in regards to Fox’s reboot of The Fantastic Four. The movie has been surrounded by a cloud of bad buzz ever since it was first announced. There were the rumors of director Josh Trank’s increasingly destructive behavior, then a trailer that received, shall we...
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SPOILER ALERT! IF YOU HAVE NOT READ OLD MAN LOGAN…JUST READ IT…THEN COME BACK The big news surrounding 20th Century Fox over the past few weeks is that the third (and final?) Wolverine film is going to be based on Old Man Logan. For those who may not be familiar with Old Man Logan,...
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I Blame Jesse Eisenberg: A Personal Essay
When I woke up this morning to a dull, worrying pain in my ass bones due to my first bike ride in over a decade undertaken in a conscious desire to raise my middle finger to the MTA’s fare hike as well as an unconscious desire to evolve into a healthy yet smug Brooklynite,...
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There have been very few times in my life when the video game world has seemingly stopped. When excitement gets so great that time ceases to exist and undying anticipation is released in an overwhelming explosion of excitement. On June 15, this happened once again, when Square Enix announced that it would be remaking...
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Trying to get people to watch Hannibal is as difficult as trying to convince someone to change their political beliefs. It’s frustrating, fruitless, and ends with both people mad at each other. Seriously, this is how it goes nearly every time I try to tell a friend they should give it a shot: ME: Hannibal is the best...
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Mad Max: Fury Road is incredible. You probably already know this, either because you’ve seen the film or someone has frantically rushed up to you and shouted something along the lines of, “GAGHHH IT’S AMAZING GO SEE IT YESTERDAY.” It puts every action movie of the last decade to shame. It’s so perfectly executed,...
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Like every child of the 90’s, I grew up on a steady diet of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. I think I saw Terminator 2–edited for TV of course–before I could even walk. I wasn’t old enough to think about what a strange movie star he was, with his absurdly long name and thick accent. I just...
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‘Over-stuffed’ doesn’t even begin to describe Avengers: Age of Ultron. One wonders if Marvel executives held writer-director Joss Whedon at gunpoint while shouting, “You must include this character! And this character! And don’t forget this one! And you better make sure to mention stuff that will be important for later movies!! WRITE! WRITE! GET...
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I’ve been on a serious retro gaming kick the past few months. Whether it’s playing Super Mario with Jordan, reliving classics on my 3DS, or going on “retro-trips” with Brendan, 2015 has been a year of classics. A few weeks ago I came across Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection on my PS3. I’ve owned this...
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Friends, gamers, Internet denizens, I Mike Staub have taken up a quest with my good friend Jordan (Huey) Hue. We have decided to take some of our ever-diminishing free time and fill it with the nonsensical hilarity of Super Mario. While playing through Mario it’s not too out of the norm to hear very...
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