Commitment to unexpected storytelling

I was planning on writing a different blog post today, but this caught me so off-guard that I had to talk about it. Since the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in December, I've become a fan of YouTuber Alpharad thanks to his Ultimate Level 9 CPU Tournament video. The premise was simple: Throw a bunch of …

The Super Smash Bros. Cinematic Universe

As many of you have seen, a trailer for Paramount's upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog movie dropped today. It's terrifying. But more than it is terrifying, the trailer feels frustrating. There's a whole lot of missed potential from what I can see as a casual fan of the series, and I spent a fair amount of time …

We’re through the Endgame

For days, all I've heard about Avengers: Endgame is that it is perfect. There was not a single bad thing said about the 22nd Marvel Cinematic Universe film. That couldn't be true. This movie is three-hours long. It simultaneously culminates two-dozen films, sequelizes a massive blockbuster and ends stories for characters we've known over 10 …

Truly wacky

I was planning on taking today to write about a new YouTube series I've come to love. However, that's on the back-burner after I discovered something more wacky to discuss from a more traditional visual medium. I'm not blind to the fact that the 2010's media landscape is a minefield of reboots, remakes and sequels. …

Captain Marvel is an excellent, if flawed, lynchpin for the MCU

So, guess who just saw Captain Marvel? The movie which Meninism Magazine voted worst blight on masculinity since Paul Feig's Ghostbusters. I kid. Any relation to real-life absurdist magazines or misogynistic straw polls is purely coincidental. It's just hilarious to me how reactionary the hate for this movie has been leading up to its release. But that's …

That owl sure was superb

Gotta ride that SEO wave, am I right? I kid of course. Out of all the blog posts I've ever written, a football-related piece is far from the one I'm looking to blow out of the park. It just so happens that the only thing I've done today beyond researching history for my novel is …

Balance is key

As promised earlier, my time to go radio silent for finals has come and (hopefully) gone. This weekend was just a bit too full of work for me to spend extra time coming up with blog post topics. That said, it was a very productive weekend! I finished my nine page paper for Evolution and …

He was #1

Sometimes you really don't think about how much of an impact a person has had in your life until you see that name pop up on an obituary. That happened for me when I saw that Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of Spongebob Squarepants, passed away from ALS complications at 57 today. Spongebob hasn't been at …

A post-Stan Lee world

I don't know that I had anything planned to talk about today amid a storm of homework I've been putting off. But once I saw this news come through, I knew there was really only one thing I could do: Pay tribute. Within the last hour or so, rumors began to trickle around Twitter that …

Script Doctoring at its finest

If I haven't made it totally obvious around here, I like movies. I like movies a lot. A good chunk of that love comes from my dad, who was a pretty serious actor for a while and continues to work in the movie industry, currently for Fandango as I've discussed in the past. Thanks to …