Rape in the Military: It Is Time for Real Change
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I'm Tired of Having Sex: Mating, Dating and Relating and How TV Mostly Gets it Wrong
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Put Your Damn Shirt Back On: Analyzing An Upsetting New Film Trend
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Blood Without Pain: Should Networks Remove TV Episodes in the Wake of Real-Life Violence?
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How Netflix Should Democratize Television
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Marvel’s The Interventionist: An Open Letter to Overzealous Comic Book Purists
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Dear Internet (and Michael Ausiello): Stop Ruining Everything
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What Can Marvel Do To Make Daredevil Work? Copy “Arrow” (Or, “Angel”).
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recently announced that the media rights to one of the comic publisher's oldest characters have reverted back to their ownership, after 20th Century Fox passed on Joe Carnahan's grind house reinvention and then promptly sat there, blinking like a blind man at a sign language conference. I'm with Fox in thinking that a Daredevil movie is perhaps not worth the effort, though I love the character. No, now is the time for Daredevil to be reborn on television. Really, anything to wash out the taste of that dreadful movie would suffice -- and, before you mention it, no, the director's cut does not make it better. Continue Reading
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"Doctor Who" or: How I Learned to Stop Thinking and Watch the Mess
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Predictable Shockers: How TV Lost Its Capacity to Surprise
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Anatomy of an Adaptation: Examining Two Scenes Translated from A Clash of Kings to “Game of Thrones” Season Two
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"The Walking Dead" and the Birth of the State
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Here's the New Most Galling Thing About Zach Braff's Kickstarter
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No One Hates Don Draper More than Don Draper
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TV Didn’t Kill the Movie Theater (Yet), Competition Forced Them to Adapt or Die
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Here's an alphabetical listing of all our Think Pieces: "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain": Matters of Memory "Big Fish" and the Movies of Tim Burton as Viewed Through His Art "Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic": Technology and the Future of Books "Build your wings on the way down": Ray Bradbury 1920-2012 "But they treasure, secretly treasure, the times they lost. It's a sacrifice, of sorts": Why We Keep Watching Sports "Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief": Borrowing, Stealing, and Copyright's Suppression of our Gestalt "Fame Whore" is So Demeaning; Adrianne Curry Prefers the Term "Celebrity Entrepreneur" "How I Met Your Mother": The Truth About Ted Mosby "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." "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe": Nixon's Speech if Apollo 11 Had Failed "It's Not the Years, Honey, It's the Mileage": The Awkward Aging of Television and Film "Put Your Bodies Upon the Gears and Upon the Wheels": Martin Luther King and SOPA/PIPA "Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Kings": Why We Love Dark Stories "The Walking Dead" and the Birth of the State "The West Wing": "Decisions are made by those who show up" "True Blood" As A Subversion of the Tragic Vampire Trope "You know, we're standing on the doorstep of a new millennium": Hollywood and Politics 'Dark Blood': River Phoenix's Last Movie Will Finally Try To Rise From The Ashes (500) Days of Summer and the Difference between Misogyny and Bad Writing 1 in 14 Of History's Greatest Artists Are Alive Today: The Upside to Overpopulation 10 Notable Examples from Hollywood's Checkered History with Racebending 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" 30 Practical Tips About the Horrors of Raising a Baby That You Will Never Learn from Movies and TV 7 Keys to Building a Successful Movie Franchise Without Even F*cking Trying 8 Steps to Cashing in on Your Micro-Celebrity, the Saddest Job Title Since Freelance Writer A Look at Foreign Box Offices | Why Don't They Just Speak American? A Manifesto for the Next Fifty Years of Media A Modest Proposal for Funding Art A Plea to the BBC: Let Me Throw My Money at You A Sad Postmortem on the Life of Gary Coleman | The Curse of Celebrity A Single Look that Can Sell a Million Movie Tickets A Superman Fan Living in a Batman World: What "Man of Steel" Needs to Do to Succeed A Tale of Two TV Pilots: "Wonder Woman" and "Arrow" A Taxonomy of Time Travel A Transparent Attempt to Explain the Economics Behind Running a Pop-Culture Website and the Need to Run Intrusive Advertising A Valentine's Day Miracle Tale of Monoamniotic Twins and Averted Heartbreak About the Time I Was Reprimanded by Ryan (F*cking) Gosling All Dogs Go To Heaven: Why We Cannot Stomach the Suffering of Dogs in Our Fiction All Your Favorite Shows May Be Cancelled: Why Bad Nielsen Ratings Should Be Great for Quality Television An Advanced Dan Harmon Fan's Journey into Harmoncountry 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 Chris Hemsworth About the Sad Double Standard Between Male and Female Celebrities in Magazine Photoshoots An Open Letter to Kevin Smith | It Okay. Don't Be Cry. An Open Letter to People Who Hate Things That Others Enjoy An Open Letter to the Artist Behind the "Lady Avengers" Starring Alison Brie and Amber Heard And Here We... Go! (Again.): Why Rotten Tomatoes Closing Its Comments For The Dark Knight Rises Is A Net Good And When I Walk the Streets Kings and Queens Step Aside: How I'd End Breaking Bad Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology: Hollywood and the Hacker Are We Bad People? Casey Anthony, the Reality TV Effect and Dead Kids as Hallmark Entertainment Are Your iTunes Really Yours? At Ninety-Eight We All Rotate: New Theater Will Encourage Cell Phone Use Birth, School, Work, Death: Why Do We Take Our Television and Film So Seriously? Blaming Curses For Addiction, Possible Mental Illness, and Finding God? Charlie Sheen Still Thinks He's Winning Blood Without Pain: Should Networks Remove TV Episodes in the Wake of Real-Life Violence? Boobquake 2: Fighting A**holes with T*ts Brad Pitt and How Beauty Can Often Obscure Real Talent Breaking Down the Most Painful Clip on YouTube: Four Minutes of "The Chevy Chase Show" Bruce Willis Is the Most Versatile Actor in Hollywood Right Now But They Can Never Taint You in My Eyes: Tom Cruise, John Travolta, L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology Captain My Captain: He Just Might Get You High Tonight Catfish Tales: About the Time a Woman Who Didn't Actually Exist Became a Contributor to Pajiba Celebrity Dream Interpretations 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 Creative Freedom Isn't Free: Stop Stealing "Game of Thrones" Cutting Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face Earns You An NC-17 | The Tyranny of Morality and the MPAA Dear Interent (and Michael Ausiello): Stop Ruining Everything Dear Internet: If You're Going to Continue to Bitch About Lena Dunham and "Girls," At Least Watch the Goddamn Show Dimension Blech | Why 3-D Needs to Go Away Django Unchained and the Power of That Word Do You Have a Tipping Point? | When the Personal and Professional Lives of Celebrities Collide Doctor Who or: How I Learned to Stop Thinking and Watch the Mess Documentarians Are Whores, Too | The Machinations of Toronto's Hot Docs Festival Don't Listen to the Movie Critics Who Say Negative Things About 'The Hobbit'! 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 Edvard Munch's Scream and the Competitive Thrill of Auction Bidding Emasculation and the Problem with the Contemporary 105-Pound Female Action Hero Empathy is the Enemy: The Fall of Orson Scott Card 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 Everything I Learned About Everything I Learned from Nicholas Sparks's Yahoo! Answers Pages Evil is Not Washed Away by Good: Torture and Zero Dark Thirty Examining Two Scenes Translated from A Clash of Kings to "Game of Thrones" Season Two Exploring the Most Important Question in the History of Internet F*ck Everything, Let's Talk About Rape Fight the Power! Support Gay Marriage at Chick-Fil-A Today By Not Being a Complete and Total Douchebag Finally Someone Is Thinking of the Children | A Parental Think Piece Florida Tax Bill Promotes "Family Values" Oriented Films For That Inch For Your Consideration: Why Are Oscar Campaigns So Shameless? Forget About Triplets, We've Got "Leaked" Scenes from the Un-Produced Kindergarten Cop II Four Theories on Why the Internet Has Such a Massive Almost Unexplainable Crush on Alison Brie Friendship, The Shawshank Redemption And A Strange Case Of Cinematic Stubbornness Frontier Of The Unspoken: How the Internet Changed the Way We Socialize Game Shows Touch Our Lives: How My Father Would Fare In the Dystopian Game Shows of The Future Gay Marriage: Can't We Just Get to the Good Part? Gay in 2011: How Homophobia Lost Its Cool Genre and Movie Quality over Time | Movies Were Not Better When You Were A Child Girl's Guide to Heartbreak: Learning to Forgive Ourselves and Others Go Then, There Are Other Worlds Than These: Universe Building and Fictional Crossover in Literature Guilty Pleasures, Schmuilty Schmleasures: Or, Only the Penitent Man Will Pass (Judgment) Gun Control and the Price of America's Manifest Destiny Gwyneth Paltrow: Sexy Girl Deer | Gwyneth Paltrow: A Conversation HBO's "Girls" and Our Resentment Toward Privileged, White America Harvey's Girls | The Would-Be Ingenues: Where Are They Now, And What Happened Then Here Comes Pimped Children: The Whole "Kids Are Off Limits" Thing Is Now Off the Table Here's the New Most Galling Thing About Zach Braff's Kickstarter 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 Lara Flynn Boyle's Botched Face Brings Out the Worst in Humanity How Live-Tweeting TV Shows Ruins Everything How Mass Effect Helps the Understanding of Unequal Gender Portrayals in Mass Media How Modding Changes Art How Netflix Should Democratize Television How The Catholic Church Controlled Hollywood How We Love To Watch Them Fall: What Does Our Celebrity Schadenfreude Say About Us? 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 Am Not Your Blowing Wind: Audiobooks and the Endless Road I Am Woman, I Am Bored: Nikki Finke Thinks Beautiful Women Aren't Funn--zzzzzzzzzzzzz... I Don't Think Duct Tape Will Work: Fixing the Nielsens I Hate Hugh Jackman I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: How We Mistake Dark Stories for Complex Ones I Hope You Know This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record: I Never Met a Dog I Didn't Like I Love That Dirty Water: Thoughts On Yesterday's Events 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 I'll Watch My Stories Howsoever I Damn Well Please I'm Tired of Having Sex: Mating, Dating and Relating and How TV Mostly Gets it 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 In Praise of the Perfectly Imperfect Les Misérables, the Future of Movie Musicals Intelligent Television Drama and the Death of "Good" and "Bad" Characters Is Jonathan Levine Hollywood's Most Romantic Director? It was Never Meeting Sally that Mattered to Harry: What Romantic Movies Don't Get It's Time to End Song Lyric Fascism Once and For All It's Time to Kick the Superhero Genre in the Ass It's Tradition, so Suck It Up Jeremy Lin, Chris Brown and How Ignoring Race Can Perpetuate a Cycle of Racism Joshua Jackson (R.I.P.) Rises from the Dead to Celebrate Pacey-Con Joss the Beloved Character Slayer: Deconstructing One of the Director's Most Common Tropes 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? Kony 2012 and Jason Russell's Creepy, Narcissistic Advocacy Project Lena Dunham Thinks Men Are "Simple," And She's Probably Right Because She IS the Voice of a Generation Lena Dunham, "Girls," Fat-Shaming, and an Honest Male Perspective Levon Helm: American Son (1940 - 2012) Looking Fondly Back On a Decade of Potter Looking for a Cheap Holiday in Other People's Misery M. Night Shyamalan: Ambitious, Serious-Minded Talentless Disease | The Shyamalan Downward Spiral Make Sure Your Face Is Clean Now, Can't Have No Dirty Dead: Race, Gender, And "The Walking Dead" Making the Case that Arnold Schwarzenegger Should Replace Oprah Winfrey Marvel vs. DC and the Amalgam Universe: The Logical Next Evolution in Superhero Cinema Marvel's The Interventionist: An Open Letter to Overzealous Comic Book Purists Michael Murray Visits the Set of Hundreds of Films and Television Shows Mindhole Blowers -- Holy Sh*t: Tyrion Lannister's Grizzled Sellsword, Bronn, Used to Be a Huge and Hugely Lame Pop Star Mindhole Blowers: 20 Facts About Gone with the Wind That Will Make You Give A Damn 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 Myself, Taylor Lautner, and the Most Humiliating Experience of My Career as a Film Reviewer NBC and Sony Can't Market for Sh*t: Predicting Tomorrow's "Community" Reviews Today 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 New 'Justice League' Rumor Provokes Nerd Excitement Mingled with the Acknowledgement of Likely Disappointment! New to Me: 'An American Werewolf in London' (1981) New to Me: 'Dr. No' (1962) New to Me: 'East of Eden' (1955) New to Me: 'The Night of the Hunter' (1955) 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 No One Hates Don Draper More than Don Draper Not Just a Crazy Person Ranting: Why Todd Akin's Comments Matter Oh, Pretty Girls, You're Too Good For This | The Asshole Phenomenon On Facebook and Copyright And Unbunching Your Knickers On Loving, and Losing, Pets On the Occupy Wall Street Movement, the Death Rattle of the Old Media, and America's Economic Disparity On the Side of the Angels: "Sherlock," Sociopathy, and Evil One Company, Two Images: The Striking Distinction between the American and European Brand Identity of the Same Product Our Cinematic Autobiography: An Officer and a Gentleman Our Cinematic Autobiography: 10 Things I Hate About You Our Cinematic Autobiography: An American Tail Our Cinematic Autobiography: Away We Go Our Cinematic Autobiography: Blue Valentine Our Cinematic Autobiography: Broken Flowers Our Cinematic Autobiography: Clerks. Our Cinematic Autobiography: Crocodile Dundee II Our Cinematic Autobiography: Jurassic Park Our Cinematic Autobiography: Stand By Me Over the Top Critical Reactions to 5 Attempts to Change How We Watch Movies Part of the Problem: Confessions of a Saw-aholic Pick Your Poison: Sturgeon's Law and Why We Love Bad Fiction Pictures, Paparazzi and Pleasantries: Do Celebrities Owe Us Anything? Planning Against The Sequel: Why Not Every Genre Movie Needs To Be A Franchise Playing the Long Game | Thoughts on How We Watch TV Politics is About Storytelling, Not Debates Predictable Shockers: How TV Lost Its Capacity to Surprise Put Your Damn Shirt Back On: Analyzing An Upsetting New Film Trend Rape in the Military: It Is Time for Real Change Reading by the Light of the Screen: Thoughts on Adaptations Redbox vs Amazon vs Netflix: Progress Is Cool Refuting Tolkien Religion, Kick-Ass, and Stupidity Remarking on the Almost Quaint Wholesomeness of the Annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Rian Johnson's The Psychology of Dream Analysis 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 Roll Initiative: Why You Should Read Role-playing Game Rule Books Roseanne, Ken Levine and Sexism (or lack thereof) in Hollywood: Thoughts from a Female Television Writer Scientific Accuracy? 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Seriously, You'll Like It: A Well-Intentioned Guide to Manipulating Your Spouse 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 Sitcom Television's Most Warped and Unsettling Marriage Speaking Ill of the Famous Dead: A Pajiba Discussion Spiritual Atheism: 'Buffy,' 'Angel,' 'House' and 'Doctor Who' Sports Culture, Ego and Responsibility Surprising Finding: America Loves A- Movies | A Examination of Box Office vs. Quality Systems of Magic And Politics TV Didn't Kill the Movie Theater (Yet) Team Edward vs. Team Jacob -- An Intellectual and Spirited Debate Television Killed Itself: The Rise of Pointless Television Television is Better Today (And Worse): Political Science Says So Television is a Business You Know: Why the Firing of Dan Harmon is Wrong The 2012 Oscars and How "Best" Almost Never Means "Favorite" The 6 Most Tragic TV Shows Masquerading as Light Comedy | Sorry Your Mom's Dead. 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The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors: Ending "Game of Thrones" The Nolan Brunette The Problem With Fans and Overwhelming Fandom The Problem With Obsessions: Boys and "The X-Files" The Problem with Genre The Psychology of Letting Go: What It Means to Love and Lose 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 Allure of Guns 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 Are Other Worlds Than These: Being Born in Another World a Low Percentage Bet 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 Movie Makes Me Embarrassed to Be an American. God Help Me, I Can't Wait to See It This Weekend, A Film You've Never Heard of Involving Incest and Monster Rape Had One of the Worst Openings of All Time Three Young Adult Series Being Made Into Films That Shouldn't Be Made Into Films Through A Lens Darkly: The Uniqueness of a Movie-Watching Experience Tolkien's Bastards: Why Certain Fantasy Tropes Stick 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" Twisted Truth and Half the News: Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master Tries to Pretend It Has Naught to do with Scientology Viagra for Dick Jokes | The Enduring Culture of Judd Apatow Was the Coolest Movie Ensemble of the 21st Century From a Movie Barely Anyone Saw? Watching Violent, R-Rated Movies: How Young Is Too Young? We Were Promised Jetpacks | The Future of the Future What Can Marvel Do To Make "Daredevil" Work? Copy "Arrow" (Or, "Angel"). 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You Tell a Story Like a Broken Record: Aaron Sorkin's "Newsroom" Problem You'll Never Live Like Common People: The Manning Bros, "Girls" and Where Nepotism Actually Begins 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
Marvel Studios executive Kevin Feige recently announced that the media rights to one of the comic publisher's oldest characters have reverted back to their ownership, after 20th Century Fox passed on Joe Carnahan's grind house reinvention and then promptly sat there, blinking like a blind man at a sign language conference. I'm with Fox in thinking that a Daredevil movie is perhaps not worth the effort, though I love the character. No, now is the time for Daredevil to be reborn on television. Really, anything to wash out the taste of that dreadful movie would suffice -- and, before you mention it, no, the director's cut does not make it better. Continue Reading 
Moffat is still very clever, there's no question about that. His run of the show has given us numerous intriguing and perplexing plotlines. But too many times now, the way out relies upon an unexplained paradox, a universe implosion, a universe explosion, a pocket universe, or some form of purported timeline correction which, as Anders puts it, is more magic than science and an easy out. There no longer seems to be any rules, any form of internal logic. Continue Reading 
HBO's "Game of Thrones" third season is now half-complete (or a quarter so, if we want to think in Book 3 terms) and the same old chorus of George R. R. Martin and "A Song of Ice and Fire" fans are back to tell us how much better the books are compared to the TV show. This is preposterous, at least at this juncture in the live-action series. Continue Reading 
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