There’s a New Power Rangers Movie and It’s Fine I Guess By Amanda Hudgins • March 27th, 2017 “Power Rangers is a cartoon rendered in the dull shades of grey and brown that have come to represent the modern blockbuster.”
Peter Jackson’s King Kong By Amanda Hudgins • March 13th, 2017 If you can get past that extended timeline, you still have to put up with a plot that drags along in a way that would make glaciers envious.
A Disappointment of Dads: Logan is Just Alright By Amanda Hudgins • March 6th, 2017 “We are supposed to give Logan credit because it tried, because it’s better than its peers. But trying does not mean you succeed.”
Moving Out, Moving On By Amanda Hudgins • February 27th, 2017 Packing Up… is a slow, near meditative experience about packing up your entire life into a bunch of boxes and heading out.
Self Insert Who is Clan Techie? By Amanda Hudgins • February 23rd, 2017 Fan ficton: where Judge Dredd meets Star Wars.
John Wick 2 is a Bloated Neon Carcass of a Movie By Amanda Hudgins • February 13th, 2017 “Watching John Wick: Chapter 2 felt less like watching a movie and more like watching a particularly brutal playthrough of Hitman.”
The Worst Tool in the Toolbox By Amanda Hudgins • February 6th, 2017 The easiest way to make a villain seem villainous is cheap and exploitative.
Self-Insert Lung Flowers By Amanda Hudgins • February 4th, 2017 Amanda Hudgins examines a strange new disease in the fanfiction community.
The Dumb, the Rapid, and the Bloated: 14 Years of Underworld and Resident Evil By Amanda Hudgins • January 30th, 2017 “Coming out in 2003 and 2002, respectively, the movies in these series are critic-proof, popcorn encrusted waifu action spectacles.”
B-Fest 2017 By Amanda Hudgins • January 23rd, 2017 “B-Fest is a film festival and long-running tradition that combines all of the fun of live MST3K with sitting in one room for 24 hours straight.”
Why is There All This MPreg in Death Stranding? By Amanda Hudgins • January 2nd, 2017 In Death Stranding, it’s not terribly hard to see the hints of one of fanfiction (and horrors) beloved tropes, that of male pregnancy.
Haters Gonna Hate By Amanda Hudgins • September 1st, 2016 What is a hater anymore? What is an alpha hater? How does Ke$ha factor into it?
Rap Artists for People Who Don’t Like Rap By Amanda Hudgins • July 28th, 2016 It started as an informational photo set on imgur and turned into questions of culture, mission, voice and race.
GDC You’re Breaking My Heart By Amanda Hudgins • May 13th, 2016 For some GDC can make you feel like an atheist in a mega church.
Ask Me About PWR BTTM, But Don’t Tell Mom By Amanda Hudgins • May 2nd, 2016 It’s hard to describe what PWR BTTM sounds like when you’re so caught up on what they feel like.
10 Cloverfield Lane – Hell is Other People By Amanda Hudgins • March 31st, 2016 Bottled together while monsters run rampant outside, but what monsters lurk within? Contains spoilers
Rise of the Rogue-like Platformer By Amanda Hudgins • March 23rd, 2016 Derek Yu, creator of Spelunky, has released a book on game making. Wanna know our thoughts?
Why Aren’t You Already Following @WhoresofYore By Amanda Hudgins • February 29th, 2016 People have been doing the hunka chunka for a long time. Amanda is kind enough to give us a valuable historical resource to scroll through on our lunch breaks.
My Dragon Cancer By Amanda Hudgins • February 19th, 2016 That Dragon, Cancer can remind you of the importance of grief, if you let it.
The Sound and the Fury – Rape Scenes and Westerns in 2016 By Amanda Hudgins • February 1st, 2016 Two of the biggest movies of the season also feature rape scenes. Amanda has some thoughts.
I Will Go Down With This Trash Ship By Amanda Hudgins • December 23rd, 2015 Fanfiction is going to make Kylo Ren and Rey a couple, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. (Huge spoilers within, you weenie.)
Running on Broken Glass By Amanda Hudgins • December 2nd, 2015 “Metal Gear Solid V sabotages its own depth by playing everything straight, by presenting real world horror alongside events that are completely ridiculous.”
Misery on Broadway: Stick to Action By Amanda Hudgins • December 1st, 2015 John McClane should have stayed in Chicago.
It’s Time to Forgive Constantine By Amanda Hudgins • November 23rd, 2015 Keenu’s Constantine is turning 10 years old, maybe it’s time to finally time to forgive the film for its one major gripe. Even God forgave him, can’t you?
Fury Road and Personhood By Amanda Hudgins • May 26th, 2015 Amanda Wallace takes a deeper look at Mad Max: Fury Road’s message that “we are not things.”
GDC Class of 2015 By Amanda Hudgins • March 18th, 2015 Amanda Wallace goes to GDC for the first time and still winds up on the outside looking in.
