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 …
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. March Madness is upon us! Yes, ’tis the season when all crime is legal, and people all across Read More …
This month, Deadshirt’s two movie columns, Dark Gable Presents… and Stale Popcorn have joined forces as Dom Griffin and Max Robinson discuss the 1972 blaxpoitation classic, Blacula. Spoilers ahead for this forty-three-year-old film. Max: Blacula has long held a warm place in my heart. On some level because Read More …
A couple of weeks ago, I got a frantic message from my friend Beth. She had just seen the trailer for the movie The DUFF, and she was up in arms. “How can a movie where we are expected to believe that Mae Whitman is ugly or Read More …
Diversity and representation have long been a serious issue in the film industry, and 12 Years A Slave winning some Oscars hasn’t exactly changed that. Outside of that prestigious anomaly, people rarely imagine black film to be much more than gangster movies, cookout comedies, and Tyler Perry. Our very own Dominic Read More …
Mercifully, the cultural phenomenon known as “awards season” is almost over. The Oscars air this Sunday, so once all the bland jokes are told and the envelopes are opened we’ll know definitively which movies from last year were actually good and which ones were fucking Read More …
Last week, before seeing the movie and in preparation for this review, I set up what I thought would be a fun little challenge for myself: to read (and live-tweet, of course) the entirety of Fifty Shades of Grey in the course of a single sitting. 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 …
Have you heard about Jupiter Ascending? If you’re conscious, then the answer is probably yes. What you’ve heard about it may vary quite a bit, though, as the movie’s received a fair amount of hate from the thinking-about-stuff crowd. “The plot doesn’t make any sense.” Read More …
Diversity and representation have long been a serious issue in the film industry, and 12 Years A Slave winning some Oscars hasn’t exactly changed that. Outside of that prestigious anomaly, people rarely imagine black film to be much more than gangster movies, cookout comedies, and Tyler Perry. Our very own Dominic Read More …