There’s something very déjà vu about all this. Not long ago I was an excited 13-year-old playing and replaying VHS copies of The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, James Cameron’s wildly different but endlessly engaging tales of killer robot-assisted future nuclear apocalypse and the Read More …
I saw Jurassic World twice over the last week. At first blush, my thought was that it was an extremely enjoyable blockbuster that really shines despite pretty flat characters and a perfunctory plot. But something about the visual sense of movie really stuck with me. After another viewing, the Read More …
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 …
Director Paul Feig is not trying to save the world. Last month saw the release of Mad Max: Fury Road, a film that is both a stellar action movie and a brilliant work of feminist art. It excites, it educates, and it empowers. Our culture needs Read More …
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. If you’ve been reading Deadshirt.net for a while, you have probably noticed that we like superhero movies here, and that Read More …
We at Deadshirt like to fancy ourselves pretty dedicated to popular culture with a combined knowledge of all things media that borders on the encyclopedic, but no one is perfect. There’s just too much music, too many films, too many comics, and way too many television episodes Read More …
The California Golden Seals hockey team haven’t existed since 1976. That doesn’t mean documentary filmmaker Mark Greczmiel (pronounced Gretch-mal) loves them any less. Even in a league as obsessed with history as the NHL, the Golden Seals are often forgotten. Greczmiel set out to right that Read More …
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 …
It’s not a fluke that the number one movie of the summer, Mad Max: Fury Road, is a tale of love, redemption, and humanity set in a gasoline-and-sand post-apocalypse. Moviegoers are starving for glimpses of our next fifteen minutes, and we’ll take them wherever we can get them. This Read More …
Mad Max: Fury Road has a lot going on in it. Dominic Griffin has already written a fantastic review of the film for Deadshirt, but a movie like this deserves a much bigger conversation. In that spirit, most of the female editors and contributors of Deadshirt Read More …