One Day This City’s Gonna Explode: Friedkin’s Cruising (1980) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • August 19th, 2019 “I hope this is the wrong kind of crowd.”
Backlog Repeating Being By Gavin Craig • August 9th, 2019 Gavin muses about repetition while he muses about repetition while he muses about….
No Accounting for Tastes Undoing Ruin By Adam Boffa • August 8th, 2019 In Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki provides an early glimpse of the concerns – and hopes – that would inform his filmmaking career.
Episode 12: Midsommar By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • August 3rd, 2019 It’s all about horror in the daylight and getting eaten by bears on this episode of Unmissable as the gang brings back Yussef Cole to talk Midsommar!
Checkpoint Baker Dill and the Justice Tuna By Corey Milne • July 9th, 2019 Corey spoils Serenity, an incredibly stupid film that’s still managed to burrow into his subconscious.
Documentary Sunday Shirkers By Megan Condis • July 8th, 2019 The story behind Shirkers is one of a doomed project and a bizarre cruelty.
The Burnt Offering Grab Bag By Stu Horvath • July 5th, 2019 Stu has a handful of thoughts on everything from The Name of the Rose to dungeon synth.
No Accounting for Tastes The More the Avengers Change, the More They Stay the Same By Adam Boffa • July 4th, 2019 The Russo brothers told us Infinity War stood on its own. So what should we make of Endgame?
Exploits Feature The Fear of Saying No By Thomas Loughney • July 1st, 2019 “The man pontificates. American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman has an opinion and he has decided that it must be heard.”
Now She’ll Be All Alone: The American Horror Project Volume 2 By Orrin Grey • June 28th, 2019 Arrow is doing the lord’s work by giving such loving, hi-def releases to these kinds of underseen horror films.
Call Me Billy: Creepshow’s Unsung Feminist Hero By E.E.W. Christman • June 24th, 2019 Upon rewatching, Creepshow accidentally offers up a feminist icon.
Tony DiTerlizzi Interview By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 24th, 2019 This week, we have a nice long chat with children’s book author and legendary Dungeons & Dragons artist Tony DiTerlizzi!
Man Against Time: The Big Clock on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • June 10th, 2019 Orrin takes on The Big Clock, an unusual hybrid of noir and screwball comedy.
DC’s TV Universe Represents Queer Heroes Like Marvel Won’t By Kenneth Shepard • June 7th, 2019 Avengers: Endgame is not the queer representation mainstream superheroes need, but DC’s TV universe is full of the heroes queer fans deserve.
Unmissable – Episode 8 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • June 5th, 2019 Game of Thrones is over, so let’s have Stu Horvath on to discuss it, even though he didn’t watch the show.
Exploits Feature A Fable of Selfhood in the World of Tomorrow By Violet Shulman • June 3rd, 2019 World of Tomorrow’s Emilies aren’t quite people . . . They’re one person split in two, and this blurs the line between Self and Other into nonexistence.
This Mortal Coyle Catboy the Cat, and Other Familiars By Deirdre Coyle • May 31st, 2019 Deirdre lists some of the best cat (or cat-looking, at least) familiars in pop culture.
Documentary Sunday Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I and Faces Places By Megan Condis • May 21st, 2019 The late French New Wave director’s documentary is a lot like the misshapen spuds it chronicles.
Humanoid Cockroaches: Terraformars on Blu-Ray By Orrin Grey • May 20th, 2019 If Takashi Miike hadn’t directed it, would we even be talking about this spectacularly silly movie?
Breakups, Dear You, and Jawbreaker By Blake Hester • May 17th, 2019 The history and legacy of Jawbreaker almost seem at odds with each other.
Documentary Sunday The Cleaners By Megan Condis • May 13th, 2019 A new kind of custodial labor is working to keep your social media feeds free from trolls, hate groups and terrorist organizations.
Self-Insert A+ Parenting By Amanda Hudgins • May 12th, 2019 Fanfics dive into how one generation’s crappy fictional dad makes the next generation’s neurotic protagonist.
Rookie of the Year That Olivia Colman Look By Matt Marrone • May 11th, 2019 Unmissable: The Official Unwinnable Podcast forgot one important role in their chat about Olivia Colman: She’s the chick from Numberwang.
10 Reasons why Spiderman is the best marvel superhero ever By Alan Smithee • May 7th, 2019 Since the first release, Spiderman has been a revelation to many and is undoubtedly among the most popular superheroes of our time.
Here's the Thing The Significance of Context By Rob Rich • May 7th, 2019 Context isn’t always necessary, but Rob posits that it can and will affect how we think about something – consciously or not.
Endgame and the Specter of Representation By Amanda Hudgins • May 6th, 2019 Endgame is such an excellent example of fan service being used to wash the sins of a deeply mediocre film.
Feature Excerpt Godzilla is Political By Haru Nicol • May 6th, 2019 It’s impossible to untangle Godzilla from the nuclear anxieties that lead to the kaiju’s creation.
Unmissable – Episode 6 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • April 25th, 2019 Part 2 of our Jordan Peele mega-episode sees Yussef Cole and Davis Cox join the conversation.
Female Problems: The Sister Street Fighter Collection on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • April 25th, 2019 Orrin Grey steeps in the Etsuko Shihomi’s Sister Street Fighter trilogy-plus-one.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a Failure By Amanda Hudgins • April 23rd, 2019 There is no real plotting across the arc of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There is no arc of the MCU.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – April 2019 By Stu Horvath • April 16th, 2019 In the April issue, Unwinnable explores the politics of Godzilla, the hidden commentary of Pikuniku and so much more!
No Accounting for Taste Solo’s Score Pushes Nostalgia’s Potential By Adam Boffa • April 13th, 2019 In Disney’s spin-off, John Powell captures the intangible something that made the original trilogy so popular.
Documentary Sunday Abducted in Plain Sight By Megan Condis • April 9th, 2019 The internet’s quickness to make memes about Jan Broberg’s famous abductions (yes plural) reveals a lot about audiences’ own insecurities.
The Heavy Pour Nick Fury is Doing the Dishes By Sara Clemens • April 5th, 2019 Vulnerability as strength is something Fury understands. In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
No More Mercy: Karate Kid Showdown on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • March 25th, 2019 Just the story of a small town boy who moves to California and learns martial arts.
Flesh Without Blood By Astrid Budgor • March 22nd, 2019 Alita does not pass as human, either as actor or character, but the film remarkably doesn’t see “human” as the only option…Or, put another way: there is more to life than humanity.
Rookie of the Year Cosmic Dancer By Matt Marrone • March 14th, 2019 Is a 115-minute movie worth watching only for a single scene? Yes.
Unmissable: Episode 3 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • March 13th, 2019 Yussef Cole sits in to discuss The Favourite, Sunshine vs. Event Horizon, Destiny and more!
Green Book’s White Gaze By Malindy Hetfeld • March 11th, 2019 In Green Book, Don Shirley is the very representation of a man who has to work twice as hard to receive the respect he is owed, only to have a white man be credited for unearthing a black man’s identity – through persistent bullying.
