I was a huge Montreal Expos fan as a kid, and Henry Rodriguez was my favourite of them all. He had a cool moustache and his nickname came from the Oh Henry! chocolate bar, which is about all you can ask for in a personal hero when you’re 8 years…
The internet could always use a little more positivity. So to that end, here are three things, either that I have just discovered or recently revisited, that I think are rad. And I hope you do too.
All Fantasy Everything, episode 51
Russell Mulcahy’s Highlander, the beloved nerd touchstone that turned 30 last week, is the kind of movie you’ll know your opinion on within the first minute of it starting. In that first minute, the following happens: the Cannon Films logo appears, stamping the film with a very specific seal of…
Over the course of the last couple of weeks or so, a small section of the movie criticism blogosphere has been discussing vulgar auteurism, an unofficial banner under which a group of young writers turn an attentive eye to (mostly) critically-overlooked genre movies. Curiously, the loose-knit VA group has been…
On August 12, 2001, MTV aired “Screw Week,” the season finale of their new animated TV series Undergrads. It wasn’t the series’ best episode, nor was it the funniest, but its ending did make up for it by being uncharacteristically caustic. The last words of the season are essentially a…
