Practice for Personal Armageddon: Why We Watch Procedurals
By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Think Pieces on February 8, 2012
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Conservative Movies Make more than Liberal Movies, But Only If You Think that "Liberal" Means Satan-Worshiping Crack Addicted Serial Killer
By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Think Pieces on February 8, 2012
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"I Told You Not to Say Anything. You Can't Go In There, Brazenly Flaunt the Rules and Then Think I'm Gonna Share With You."
By Seth Freilich | Posted Under Think Pieces on January 27, 2012
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"Put Your Bodies Upon the Gears and Upon the Wheels": Martin Luther King and SOPA/PIPA
By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Think Pieces on January 19, 2012
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Pajiba's IP Lawyer Explains How Two Bills Running Through Congress Could Ruin the Internet and Put Us in Prison
By Seth Freilich | Posted Under Think Pieces on January 17, 2012
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Robots ARE Taking Over the Planet, and This Man Is Your New Supreme Overlord
By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Think Pieces on January 5, 2012
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Your Fondest Christmas Memories
By Michael Murray | Posted Under Think Pieces on December 23, 2011
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Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her: What Makes a Best Actress Contender
By Sarah Carlson | Posted Under Think Pieces on December 22, 2011
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Four Theories on Why the Internet Has Such a Massive Almost Unexplainable Crush on Alison Brie
By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Think Pieces on December 16, 2011
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"You Know, We're Standing on the Doorstep of a New Millennium": Hollywood and Politics
By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Think Pieces on December 14, 2011
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At Ninety-Eight We All Rotate: New Theater Will Encourage Cell Phone Use
By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Think Pieces on December 8, 2011
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Celebrity Is a Deal with the Devil, and We’re That Devil
By Michael Murray | Posted Under Think Pieces on December 2, 2011
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The Intersection of the Occupy Movement and Sparkle Motion
By Michael Murray | Posted Under Think Pieces on November 28, 2011
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It's Tradition, so Suck It Up
By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Think Pieces on November 23, 2011
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Why Do We Forgive?: A Pajiba Discussion
By Courtney Enlow | Posted Under Think Pieces on November 10, 2011
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Here's an alphabetical listing of all our Think Pieces:
"Big Fish" and the Movies of Tim Burton as Viewed Through His Art
"Fame Whore" is So Demeaning; Adrianne Curry Prefers the Term "Celebrity Entrepreneur"
"I Told You Not to Say Anything. You Can't Go In There, Brazenly Flaunt the Rules and Then Think I'm Gonna Share With You."
"Put Your Bodies Upon the Gears and Upon the Wheels": Martin Luther King and SOPA/PIPA
"The West Wing": "Decisions are made by those who show up"
"You know, we're standing on the doorstep of a new millennium": Hollywood and Politics
(500) Days of Summer and the Difference between Misogyny and Bad Writing
10 Pop-Culture Facts That Hammer Home the Reality of Just How Depressingly Dumb Americans Are
2010 in Science Fiction | "Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
A Look at Foreign Box Offices | Why Don't They Just Speak American?
A Sad Postmortem on the Life of Gary Coleman | The Curse of Celebrity
A Single Look that Can Sell a Million Movie Tickets
A Taxonomy of Time Travel
An Airbrushed History of "Weeds'" Nancy Botwin
An Examination of MPAA Ratings and Release Schedules | Think of the Children? I Blame the Bastards.
An Exhaustive, 600-Word Explanation of the New Breaking Dawn Teaser Poster
An Innocent Victim of Murderous Female Desire | The Evolution of Michael Douglas
An Open Letter to Kevin Smith | It Okay. Don't Be Cry.
Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology: Hollywood and the Hacker
Are We Bad People? Casey Anthony, the Reality TV Effect and Dead Kids as Hallmark Entertainment
At Ninety-Eight We All Rotate: New Theater Will Encourage Cell Phone Use
Boobquake 2: Fighting A**holes with T*ts
Brad Pitt and How Beauty Can Often Obscure Real Talent
Celebrity Is a Deal with the Devil, and We're That Devil
Charlie Sheen: The Sad Spectacle of the Real-Life Kenny Powers
China Miéville and How Television Helped the Evolution of Rape Investigations
Comic-Con 2010 and Christians | Screw the Squeaky Wheel, I Spread My Grease Around
Comic-Con, Jon Stewart, and How Film Bloggers Became Part of the Marketing Strategy | Film Criticism Isn't Dying. It's Just Bullsh*t Now
Coming to Terms with Disappointing Reality of Who'd Actually Play You in the Movie Of Your Life
Coming to Terms with the Crushing Realization that Natalie Portman Is Not a Very Good Actress
Conservative Movies Make more than Liberal Movies, But Only If You Think that Liberal Means Satan-Worshiping Crack Addicted Serial Killer
Conservative Wingnut Believes Boone from "Lost" Is a Terrorist Threat to Humanity
Cutting Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face Earns You An NC-17 | The Tyranny of Morality and the MPAA
Dimension Blech | Why 3-D Needs to Go Away
Do You Have a Tipping Point? | When the Personal and Professional Lives of Celebrities Collide
Documentarians Are Whores, Too | The Machinations of Toronto's Hot Docs Festival
Don't Panic: A Cursory Overview of Tabloid-Speak to Get You Through This Troubled Time
Don't Worry Geeks, You're No Longer Freaks. Unless, Of Course, You're A Girl.
Donald Trump: The New Voice of Privileged White-Male America
EXCLUSIVE: Spoiling the Whole Goddamn Plot to New Line Cinema's NEW YEAR'S EVE
Emasculation and the Problem with the Contemporary 105-Pound Female Action Hero
Entirely Too Much Attention To Detail: The Lucas Edition
Entirely Too Much Attention To Detail: The Sci-Fi Pets Edition
Entirely Too Much Attention To Detail: The True Love Edition
Everybody Loves Bill Murray | The Comedy and Pathos of One of Our Greatest Actors
Finally Someone Is Thinking of the Children | A Parental Think Piece
Florida Tax Bill Promotes "Family Values" Oriented Films
For That Inch
Four Theories on Why the Internet Has Such a Massive Almost Unexplainable Crush on Alison Brie
Frontier Of The Unspoken: How the Internet Changed the Way We Socialize
Gay in 2011: How Homophobia Lost Its Cool
Genre and Movie Quality over Time | Movies Were Not Better When You Were A Child
Gwyneth Paltrow: Sexy Girl Deer | Gwyneth Paltrow: A Conversation
Harvey's Girls | The Would-Be Ingenues: Where Are They Now, And What Happened Then
Hey, Hey Honey Take a Whiff On Me | The Deep Impact of Elijah Wood
Hollywood Crazy: Where is the Line Between Entertainment and Tragedy?
How to Be a Better Whore: Where Is the Line Between Studio Publicists and Movie Critic?
How to Get the Best Experience Out of Watching "Super 8" This Summer
How to Properly Introduce a Movie-Night Film to a Loved One and Ensure the Best Experience
I Hate Hugh Jackman
I Hope You Know This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record: I Never Met a Dog I Didn't Like
I Must Break You | Can Criticism Be Too Cruel?
I Think I Know Why We Give a Sh*t About Charlie Sheen
I Understand That You Have Good Intentions | But You're Still Wrong
In Appreciation of Stephen Colbert, Not Just as a Comedian, But As a Humanist
In Beleaguered Defense of Tyler Perry
In Defense of James Franco
In Defense of Mel Gibson: A Comprehensive, Point by Point Thesis
In Defense of Tracy Flick
It's Time to Kick the Superhero Genre in the Ass
It's Tradition, so Suck It Up
Joshua Jackson (R.I.P.) Rises from the Dead to Celebrate Pacey-Con
Juggalos: How The F**k do They Work? | An Investigation
Junket Jackassery | An Embarrassing '80s Nostalgia Trip for John Cusack
Keanu Reeves Talks The Matrix 4 and 5 (Bullsh*t!) | That Is The Sound Of Inevitability
Kevin Spacey Is Not a Very Good Actor | Smile. You're at Mr. Smiley's
Killer Extinct: The Death of the Boogeyman | Where's This Generation's Freddy Krueger?
Looking Fondly Back On a Decade of Potter
M. Night Shyamalan: Ambitious, Serious-Minded Talentless Disease | The Shyamalan Downward Spiral
Making the Case that Arnold Schwarzenegger Should Replace Oprah Winfrey
Michael Murray Visits the Set of Hundreds of Films and Television Shows
Moneyball: Boom or Bust? Examining the Legacy of Billy Beane and How It Will Translate Into Film
My Evening (Almost) with Amy Sedaris | A Christmas Tale of Woe and Rum
My Tortured Relationship with Jackass: Or How I Ended Up the One with a Stick in his Ass
NYC Homicide: Reality vs. Television | In New York City's War On Crime...
Navigating the Lunatic Tornadoes of Celebrity: Sarah Polley vs. Jennifer Lopez
Nawt You: How Ignoring Canon Cost David O. Russell the UNCHARTED Gig
Netflix Downward Spiral Continues: No Qwik Solution Anticipated
Nice Counts. Or Why Jessica Simpson Hasn't Done Nudity
Nikki Finke, Johnny Depp, and Why the Offer Story Is Such Bullsh*t | The Farce of the Trade News Game
Oh, Pretty Girls, You're Too Good For This | The Asshole Phenomenon
On Loving, and Losing, Pets
On the Occupy Wall Street Movement, the Death Rattle of the Old Media, and America's Economic Disparity
Part of the Problem: Confessions of a Saw-aholic
Playing the Long Game | Thoughts on How We Watch TV
Practice for Personal Armageddon: Why We Watch Procedurals
Reading by the Light of the Screen: Thoughts on Adaptations
Refuting Tolkien: "Even Gollum May Have Something Yet To Do"
Religion, Kick-Ass, and Stupidity
Remarking on the Almost Quaint Wholesomeness of the Annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
Robots ARE Taking Over the Planet, and This Man Is Your New Overlord
Rocking Out Without Your Boobs Out: In Praise Of TV's Non-Sexualized Female Characters
Roseanne, Ken Levine and Sexism (or lack thereof) in Hollywood: Thoughts from a Female Television Writer
Sesame Street Butts Heads with the NYTimes on the Benefits of Toddlers Using iPhones
Silver Lining: At Least I Know Why This One's Famous | Celebrities Are Better Than You
Speaking Ill of the Famous Dead: A Pajiba Discussion
Surprising Finding: America Loves A- Movies | A Examination of Box Office vs. Quality
Team Edward vs. Team Jacob -- An Intellectual and Spirited Debate
The 6 Most Tragic TV Shows Masquerading as Light Comedy | Sorry Your Mom's Dead. Here, Have a Laugh Track.
The Astounding Mediocrity of James Franco and the Muddled Message of "Planet of the Rise of the Apes"
The Beauty of Being the Shepherd in the Play of Life | Christmas Lessons from Charlie Brown and George Bailey
The Bond Between a Boy and Horror Movies | A Look Back at the Effects of Amityville, Salem, and the Overlook Hotel
The Bride (not the Uma one): The Greatest Villain in the History of Film
The Continuing Adventures of the Chipmunk's Humiliations
The Death of the Movie Theater | In Which I Get Cranky And Old
The Disapproving Judgement of Used Shop Owners | Tales of A Very Serious Neurotic Disorder
The Double Standard of Sexual Violence | "The Accused" and Our Relationship with Onscreen Violence
The Greatest Trick MTV Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World It Was Totally Awesome
The Humiliating Reality of House Buying | The Losing Combination of Ignorance and Uncertainty
The Intersection of the Occupy Movement and Sparkle Motion
The Problem with Genre
The Quiet Civil Rights Movement of Television and Film | How MLK, Jr. Gave Way to Steve Urkel
The Sad Reality of Mothers: The Most Maligned, Superficial One-Note Characters in Film
The Sexy Librarian Was Never Ugly to Begin With: The Fallacy of the Ugly-Hot Woman in Hollywood
The Slow Motion Theater of Television: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bad Episodes
The State of Fantasy | Put The Left Brain In
The State of Science Fiction | Put The Right Brain In
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and The Protect IP Act (PIPA) Explained. With Profanity
The Strange and Surreal Differences Between Halloween Customs in the United States and Canada
The Ten Best Quotes of 2009
The Unreasonable One Persists: Fight Club, Office Space, and The Matrix
The Word that Turned the Entire Internet Into Sneering Dismissive Pr*cks
There Is No More Unreason Left
There's No Home For You Here, Girl, Go Away | Women and "The Social Network"
There's Only One Type of Person More Pathetic than the People Who Watch "Saturday Night Live" on a Weekly Basis
Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her: What Makes a Best Actress Contender
Think Piece: Internet Killed The TV Subscription | Six Months Cable Free
Think Piece: The Times They Are A-Changin | Trends in Plot Keywords
Think Pieces: On Special Effects | I Want to Believe
Think Pieces: Thoughts on the Future of Star Wars
Think Pieces: What can change the nature of a man? | Roger Ebert Tells Video Games to Get Off of His Lawn
This Weekend, A Film You've Never Heard of Involving Incest and Monster Rape Had One of the Worst Openings of All Time
Through A Lens Darkly: The Uniqueness of a Movie-Watching Experience
Too Many Things | A Reflection on First World Problems
Too Soft to Slay: The Pussification of Children's Movies | Reflections on "Monster Squad" and "Goonies"
Viagra for Dick Jokes | The Enduring Culture of Judd Apatow
We Were Promised Jetpacks | The Future of the Future
What Do Swimming, Frogs, and Black Swan Have In Common? | Why Black Swan Makes Me Cringe
What If Jerry Maguire Never Got His "You Had Me at Hello" Moment? | "Jerry Maguire" vs. "Up in the Air": A Lesson in Contrast
What Superheroes Mean: "We must not remind them that giants walk the earth"
Whatever Doesn't Kill You Simply Makes You Stranger: DC Comics To Reboot The Entire Universe
When Life Gives You Lemons
Which Was the Bigger Career Launching Pad? "Dazed and Confused" or ... "School Ties"?
Who Murdered Rosie Larsen? A Pajiba Investigation
Why Do We Forgive?: A Pajiba Discussion
Why Pay for Anything? Movie Bootlegging and the Evolution of Media
Why We Hate Megan Fox (and Why Maybe We Shouldn't) | Pajiba Whip-Its
Why the Most Beloved Film of the Year (Only Slightly) Irks Me
Why the Oscars Matter
Women You Love: Cobie, Connie, and Leo Edition
Wonder Woman, Slut-Shaming And Mastering The Art Of Sexploitation
You Look Like a Baby Prostitute: An Open Letter to TLC
You Say Homance, I Say Towanda. Tomato, Fried Green Tomahto.
You're So Beautiful, It Hurts To Look At You | Because Looking Makes It Hurt In My Brainplace
Your Fondest Christmas Memories
Your Illegitimate Child & You: A Lesson in PR From Your Local Marketing Professional
Your Mom Doesn't Care | Dead Space, Video-Game Marketing and the Failure of Video Game Movies