Captain America: The Winter Soldier is Marvel’s Finest Hour
Our very own Dominic Griffin got to see the new Captain America sequel a little early. He seems pretty smitten. Read More …
Author: Dominic Griffin
The Private Eye Volume One [Review]
The first “trade” of Brian K. Vaughan & Marcos Martin’s unorthodox digital-only comic has arrived, and you can pay what you want for it. Why have you not read it yet? Read More …
The WWE Network: A Layer Cake of Curious Nostalgia
Lifelong wrestling fan and storytelling enthusiast Dominic Griffin explores the hot new media drug on the streets, the WWE Network, and its relationship with nostalgia. Read More …
Join Us for Deadshirt Date Night: The 86th Academy Awards
Deadshirt Date Night is back! This one’s for all the marbles. Oscars. Live. Lovingly mocking Hollywood’s elite while they stroke one another’s egos on broadcast television. Also Ellen is hosting!? Read More …
10 Years Later: Kanye West’s The College Dropout
10 years have passed since Kanye West released his groundbreaking, paradigm shifting debut album. Before he was a God, he was just a college dropout. Hip Hop hasn’t been the same since. Read More …
Quentin Tarantino, The Most Interesting Screenwriter Alive
To say Quentin Tarantino is a controversial filmmaker would be an understatement. To some, he is the end-all, be-all of modern cinematic achievement, a shining prism through which the sum total of film history bends and refracts. To others, he is a problematic, culturally insensitive Read More …
The #McConnaissance Continues: True Detective is The Real Thing
HBO’s new crime series True Detective is a show that can get away with resting on the laurels afforded it by its star power and simple enough premise. A cop show starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson on HBO would probably be well-received even if Read More …
For Award Consideration Only, The Collective Hysteria
Folks, it is that time of the year again. Awards season is upon us and all manner of critic, pundit and prognosticator are out in full force, excitedly engaging and perpetuating the same superficial ballyhoo they can’t stop themselves from being “shocked” and “appalled” Read More …
Creators as Brands: A Look At The 2014 Image Expo
If Grant Morrison and his Batman Incorporated collaborator Chris Burnham announced that they were putting out a creator owned book through Image Comics called Dildo Factory, about a living, breathing motorized sex toy coming to terms with its newfound sentience, would you buy it? Now, Read More …
Childish Gambino’s “because the internet” – Donald Glover Takes The “Album” Open World
The Only Black Kid at A Sufjan Concert (Intro) “10K for the drinks, now they say I’m insane / It’s been that for a minute now, Hedi Slimane…” “Childish Gambino,” the rapper alter ego of writer/comedian/actor/compulsive hyphenate Donald Glover, has always been a problematic musical Read More …