The Bad Luck Issue – Theme Recap By Team Unwinnable • March 21st, 2016 Beware the Ides of March! And every other day this month – it’s the Unwinnable Monthly Bad Luck issue!
Californium is a Fiction Reference Wrapped in a Drug-Addled Riddle By Megan Condis • March 14th, 2016 Philip K. Dick influence is heavy in Californium, but might-be-winks and could-be-nudges may be just as frustrating as exciting for fans.
How to Watch The Big Short and Stay Smarter Than the Average Chimp By Declan Taggart • March 4th, 2016 Why does the boiling rage of the collective simmer down to a flavorless consomme of apathy, resentment and mistrust?
Laser Kittens: X-Men Meets Internet Cat Videos Meets Table Top By Megan Condis • February 29th, 2016 It’s leap day! Let’s make use of this elusive day by peering into the minds of our kitten overlords.
Talking About We Need to Talk About Kevin By James Murff • February 25th, 2016 “It’s a ponderous and artfully made movie that inexorably draws its characters into a tragedy”
Tangerine: Familiarity Breeds Understanding By Matt Sayer • February 23rd, 2016 Tangerine is a movie that doesn’t give two hoots for social norms.
The Japan Issue – Variation Recap By Team Unwinnable • February 22nd, 2016 Horror author Livia Llewellyn, Rocket League, Mad Max: Fury Road, Hitman: Agent 47 and Hypercharge – all in this Unwinnable Monthly.
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.
Please, For the Love of God, Don’t Watch The Ridiculous Six By Megan Condis • February 1st, 2016 Ridiculous 6 is 6 kinds of ridiculously bad.
Star Wars and the Psychology of Spoilers By Tim Mulkerin • January 27th, 2016 Jerks launching surprise spoilers might be doing you a favor.
Alan Rickman – 1946 – 2016 By Team Unwinnable • January 15th, 2016 Team Unwinnable remembers Hans Gruber, Severus Snape and the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Goodbye Spaceboy By Team Unwinnable • January 12th, 2016 Unwinnable struggles to come to terms with the death of David Bowie.
Binge Watching Making a Murderer, Duty over Escapism By Megan Condis • January 11th, 2016 Maybe the first instance of binge watching feeling like an obligation to society over lazy indulgence.
The Hateful Eight: A Microcosm of America By Megan Condis • January 5th, 2016 Imagery, irony and hatred that’s is still as prevalent today as it was just after the Civil War.
The Best Movies of 2015 By Team Unwinnable • December 30th, 2015 Unwinnable picks the most shiny and chrome movies of 2015.
Batman Returns is Tim Burton’s Greatest Christmas Movie By Michael Edwards • December 24th, 2015 Batman Returns is a movie about the melancholy of the holidays.
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.)
I Love Leia By AJ Moser • December 21st, 2015 “The princess was my first real encounter with a strong female character. She was a diplomat, a rebel, a leader and an all around hero.”
I Love Chewbacca By Evan Hauled Gedhill • December 21st, 2015 “I love Chewie the individual as I love Chewie, in the abstract, as a symbol of acceptance far greater than any human seems able to achieve.”
I Love Han By Jill Scharr • December 21st, 2015 Jill Scharr loves Han Solo. But more than that, she loves Han’s relationship with Leia.
The Burnt Offering The Ambivalent Side of the Force By Stu Horvath • December 18th, 2015 Stu Horvath doesn’t mind if the Force decides to sleep in.
The Essential Quality of Star Wars By Roy Graham • December 10th, 2015 “How can we praise Battlefront for possessing that intangible quality of Star Wars-ness if it ignores such a sizable chunk of the Star Wars canon?”
Mankind Divided, as is Science Fiction By Josh Griffiths • December 10th, 2015 “It isn’t just that the creators behind these science fiction stories don’t add diverse characters, it’s that there’s a large fan base that are actively hostile to diversity.”
The Good Dinosaur and Bill Nye’s Admirable Exercise in Futility By Tim Mulkerin • December 10th, 2015 Who would have thought that a movie about dinosaurs would parallel the old Ken Ham/Bill Nye dispute?
The Mark Hamill Movie Marathon: A How-To Guide By Declan Taggart • December 4th, 2015 For as long as mankind has loved Mark Hamill, it has also faced its greatest foe: properly preparing for Mark Hamill Movie Marathons. Together, with this How-To Guide, we can beat that foe.
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.”
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?
Holy Totalitarianism, Batman! By Matt Paprocki • November 12th, 2015 “Arkham Knight has no basis of morality, no balance. That’s the problem.” Matt Paprocki reveals the terror fighting terror, the Batman in Arkham Knight.
The Road to an Android Future goes through the Uncanny Valley By Charles Singletary • November 9th, 2015 Science Fiction of old oft envisions humans coexisting with androids as does Quantic Dreams recently revealed game Detroit, but Japan may have taken the first step toward that reality with their android actress.
Regression: A Scene from a Career in Decline By Declan Taggart • November 6th, 2015 Regression is so much like a TV movie. Every time I look at the cinema screen, I’m surprised. I think: Wow. Why’s this TV so big? And how did it get into our living room?
A Collection of Apocalypses: An Interview with Paul Tremblay By Stu Horvath • November 5th, 2015 “When horror is done well, I love the sense of awe, of holy-shit-what-is-that…” Stu talks with horror writer Paul Tremblay on his influences, past and future.
Cult Horror Review: Death Bed: The Bed That Eats By Megan Condis • November 2nd, 2015 The Venus Fly Trap tactics of this diabolical bed are second to none.
Good-Bad Movies for the Season By James Murff • October 30th, 2015 “There’s very little tension and all of the horror elements are funny, rather than frightening. Maybe that’s the point, though.”
The Fear of Missing Out on Fear By Riley MacLeod • October 28th, 2015 A distaste for horror films might drive us apart, but it can also bring us together.
What We Do in the Shadows is Unexpectedly Sweet By Tim Mulkerin • October 26th, 2015 “The film shows us how this group of undead functions day-to-day, which oddly is not unlike my experience in a college dorm room.”
Documentary Follows 5 Year Dev of Secret Ponchos By Jeremiah Cheney • October 22nd, 2015 “We were building our dream game – there was no room for compromise! For the first several months we didn’t even have a single programmer on the team, so we focused on what we COULD do.”
Trick r’ Treat Is Back. Just Not On the Screen. By Jeremiah Cheney • October 20th, 2015 There are werewolves. There are zombies. There’s a version of Sackboy when he’s off his medication. What more do you need from Halloween entertainment?
Last Week’s Comic Con By Ian Gonzales • October 14th, 2015 Ian Gonzales didn’t read too many comics last week, but he did spend 4 days at New York Comic Con.