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 …

The Year of Star Wars: Star Wars Rebels is a Swashbuckling Return to Form

  Debuting in October of last year on DisneyXD, Star Wars Rebels was the first offering to come out of Disney’s lock, stock, and barrel acquisition of the Star Wars multimedia franchise. Rebels is intriguing in that it’s the first time since those weird Ewok TV movies that a Read More …

Stale Popcorn: Little Shop of Horrors: The Director’s Cut (1986)

Film is an entertainment medium that, by its very nature, tends to reward the viewer in rewatch. Sometimes movies even reveal to us how we’ve grown or changed since we last saw them. Our own Max Robinson reassesses old favorites, seasonal classics and the occasional oddball lost under the couch in his monthly Read More …

The Loft [Review]

What a wonderful season for crap movies this winter has been! The “psychopathically unfunny” Mortdecai is currently burning up the charts, J-Lo’s The Boy Next Door totally redefined the “MILF terror”/”hunks-as-creeps” genres, and we’re only weeks away from “The Big Show”. But my January-February movie dumping ground white whale Read More …

Stale Popcorn: Josie and the Pussycats (2001)

Film is an entertainment medium that, by its very nature, tends to reward the viewer in rewatch. Sometimes movies even reveal to us how we’ve grown or changed since we last saw them. Our own Max Robinson reassesses old favorites, seasonal classics and the occasional oddball lost under the couch in his monthly Read More …

Stale Popcorn: Prometheus (2012)

Film is an entertainment medium that, by its very nature, tends to reward the viewer in rewatch. Sometimes movies even reveal to us how we’ve grown or changed since we last saw them. Our own Max Robinson reassesses old favorites, seasonal classics, and the occasional oddball lost under the couch in his monthly Read More …