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 …
I’ve been lucky enough to have had some really great things happen in my lifetime. Gay marriage is now legal in 36 states. The United States elected its first black President. This disabled turtle got a LEGO skateboard. But none of that, I mean none of that, compares Read More …
Based on nothing but early trailers and the visual motifs of the marketing material, A Most Violent Year looks like the most overlookable film of the last year. Oscar Isaac with his young Al Pacino impression and that stark pink and purple lettering over dark, moody 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 …
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 Read More …
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace premiered on May 18th, 1999. I was twelve years old. To give you the full picture, twelve-year-old me wore long cutoffs, black Airwalks, and Peace Frog t-shirts. She devoured The Animorphs and once tripped onto her face rushing Read More …
Shrouded by a marijuana haze, a stoner chuckles at something and so do you. This is the prevailing feeling of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, Inherent Vice, a stoner noir based on the Thomas Pynchon novel of the same name. Its pleasures are cotton candy fluff—ephemeral Read More …
Is Batman gay? According to my seventh grade schoolmates, Batman is “Sooooo Gay,” and so was I. It’s certainly a popular opinion among those with a basic understanding of psychology, one shared by noted anti-comic book doctor and Hater Hall-of-Famer Dr. Frederic Wertham. In Seduction Read More …
Every now and then, there comes along a movie that changes everything. These are typically known among scholars of cinema as “good” movies, or “interesting” movies, at the very least. Before ever being released in theaters, The Interview had sparked a new(!) conversation on free Read More …
There’s no shortage of films that promise to speak for the bullied, the outcasts, and/or the unusual. The Imitation Game lives up to that promise with the compelling true story of Alan Turing, a man so computer-like that he essentially invented what we call computers today. The Read More …