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. Kayleigh Hearn is reading… Captain Marvel #1 Written by Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters Art by Kris Anka Read More …
How incredibly fitting it is that in True Romance, the Quentin Tarantino-scripted crime thriller, true love is found at the movies. After unsuccessfully trying to pick-up a hot blonde at a bar, comic store clerk Clarence (Christian Slater) prepares to celebrate his birthday alone at Read More …
It’s been 22 years since Pulp Fiction made Quentin Tarantino a household name. If you were to pile the misbegotten films that sought to recreate a severe misreading of the “Tarantino formula” in the time that’s passed, you could climb it all the way to Read More …
For better or worse, Michael Bay’s name has been synonymous with bombastic blockbuster films for the past decade. The Transformers franchise (four films strong, with a fifth on the way) is still a box office juggernaut, and its shaky, frantic action cinematography and action setpieces Read More …
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. Dylan Roth is abdicating the throne Read More …
Some would say that period stories depicting universal compassion and good faith are inauthentic. Todd Hayne’s Carol, based on the book by Patricia Highsmith, belies this notion. A drama about same-sex love in pre-Stonewall New York sounds like an inevitable high tragedy, but Carol employs this expectation and subverts Read More …
The Planet of the Apes film franchise consists of, to date, eight films released between 1968 and 2014. Each week, venerable Apes mega-fan Max Robinson and inquisitive relative newcomer Dylan Roth journey to the center of the Planet of the Apes experience, one movie at a time. This is Turn Around, Bright Eyes. Beneath the Planet of Read More …
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. Kayleigh Hearn is reading… Red Sonja #1 Written by Marguerite Bennett Art by Aneke (pencils), Jorge Sutil (colors) Read More …
There are a hundred ways to measure what makes a great movie, but nothing speaks more highly about a film than how closely you can read it. In his new feature, Deadshirt Editor-In-Chief Dylan Roth explores one of his favorite films by demonstrating just how much there is Read More …
Yesterday we got the the news that music and fashion icon David Bowie passed away. His body of work stretched over 40 years and several times changed the landscape of popular music. Always reinventing himself, he lived his life with a sense of freedom and acceptance Read More …