Category: Destroy All Monsters
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Destroy All Monsters: Ben Solo Was The Key To The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, And JJ Abrams Never Noticed
For no reason whatsoever, I wrote 3,000 words about Ben Solo yesterday. Well, here they are.
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Destroy All Monsters: All Monsters Destroyed
“All Monsters Destroyed?” Well no, of course not. I wish the things that became the common themes in my weekly column at Screen Anarchy over the course of the past 4+ years could be called “resolved” — but really, they’ve just become part and parcel of the fabric of our conversations around pop culture in ever-increasing…
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Destroy All Monsters: In Light of WONDER WOMAN, It’s Time To Reconsider 1984’s SUPERGIRL
Like the others in the very slim “before Wonder Woman” canon, Supergirl is largely considered to be an outright creative misfire, except, I dunno – it sorta rules? It’s cheesy and silly the way adventure movies for families were back then, but I grew up with this stuff and can assure you, it’s far from…
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Destroy All Monsters: The Long Sad Tale of My Love for PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
To you, it’s a movie, and (perhaps) a bad one. To me, it’s just one thing: blinding, blistering love.
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Destroy All Monsters: The Abysmal Fathers Of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2
Arguably, GOTG2 isn’t paying anything off that Vol. 1 didn’t require of its own sequel. Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) has dealt with the death of his mother, several decades after the fact. The ersatz family (Gamora, Groot, Rocket and Drax) has come together on the Milano II. The lingering question of why the gang survived their…
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Destroy All Monsters: Did Marvel Seriously Just Pivot To The Right?
The fiasco, last fall, of making Captain America a literal nazi (reinforced last week via the “Secret Empire” storyline, where it does indeed turn out that Cap was a nazi all along) seems now like a canary in a particularly inhospitable coal mine.
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Destroy All Monsters: Thanks, GIRLS!
I’m not going to add much to the discussion of Girls, where other writers have ably carried the conversation, besides returning to a point I made a few years ago: I’m glad this show exists, has existed, did exist; and as it wraps itself up in a non-bow that Hannah might have tried to tie…
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Destroy All Monsters: Maybe The Trailers ARE Better
The nicest thing about a trailer is that it can’t hurt you. If you’re not loving the vibe, any anxieties can be immediately dismissed with a simple “meh, it’s just the trailer.” If everything about the trailer, though, seems doooooope (see Star Wars: The Last Jedi), you’re going to fall in love all over again…