One Big Family: Diversity in The Fast & Furious Franchise

It’s a strange world we live in, where the seventh (FUCKING SEVENTH?!) installment of an action franchise that used to be a gearhead punchline is on track to do superhero movie numbers this opening weekend, but the peculiarity inherent in the Fast & Furious universe’s Read More …

Deadshirt Is Listening… Playing It Cool, Hitting The Highs And The Lows

Deadshirt is Listening…Bringing you a rundown of our staff and guest contributors’ favorite new tracks released in the past week after they’ve had the weekend to blast them in their cars, in a club, alone in their rooms, etc. David Lebovitz is going hand in Read More …

Deadshirt Is Reading… Comics That Read Back

Deadshirt Is Reading… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt’s staff, contributing writers, and friends-of-the-site offer their thoughts on Big Two cape titles, creator-owned books, webcomics and more. For more of our thoughts on this week’s new comics, take a look at Wednesday’s Deadshirt Comics Shopping List. Read More …

Archie vs. Predator Writer Alex de Campi Talks Sex, Violence, and Family Values in Riverdale

Making her name with titles such as Dark Horse’s hyper-trashy Grindhouse, IDW’s young reader-friendly My Little Pony: Friends Forever and the Eisner-nominated Smoke, writer Alex de Campi‘s comics reprepertoire is not easily pigeonholed. Deadshirt comics editor Max Robinson spoke with de Campi about one of her latest projects, Archie vs. Predator.  Read More …

Real Enough to Us: Fictional Heroes who Shaped our Identities

Every Thursday, our staff of pop culture addicts tackles a topic or question about movies, music, comics, video games, or whatever else is itching at our brains. As a culture, we invest a lot into the lives of fictional characters, so much so that sometimes Read More …

Backcountry: Grizzly, Man. [Review]

Deadshirters Max Robinson and Mike Pfeiffer attended a special screening of Adam MacDonald’s Backcountry and discussed their thoughts on the film. Max: Backcountry is a pretty straightforward flick: a couple goes camping in the Canadian wilderness, everything goes to hell. Fair warning, there’ll be spoilers throughout Mike’s Read More …

Deadshirt is Watching… On Her Drag-esty’s Secret (Identity) Service

Deadshirt Is Watching…is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt staff, contributors, and guests sound off on the television shows we’re tuned into, from intense dramas to clever sitcoms to the most insane reality shows. This week: The Flash, The Royals, RuPaul’s Drag Race, and Archer! Max Robinson is Read More …

Your Deadshirt New Comics Shopping List for: March 25th, 2015

It’s Wednesday and that means new comics. Let Deadshirt steer your wallet in the right direction with reviews (and preview pages) of titles out today from Image, Dark Horse, IDW, BOOM! Studios, Archie, MonkeyBrain, Oni, Fantagraphics, Top Shelf, Action Lab, and more! Miami Vice: Remix #1 Written by Joe Read More …

It Follows…but to Where? A Candid Discussion of the Latest Savior of Horror

Our outgoing Movie Editor Dominic Griffin and Caitlin Goldblatt, the new czar of all things cinema here at Deadshirt, both saw David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows and came to two very different conclusions. In lieu of writing another gushing think piece about it as though Read More …