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Happy Friday, Marvel mavens and superhero sycophants! It's once again that special, special time of the week when we cap things off with a healthy slew of comic book hero memes. It's a weird feeling to have been witness to the beginnings of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. First, it makes me feel my age. “Iron Man” came out 15 years ago. I vividly recall the day that I went to see it in theaters. See, at that point, superhero mania wasn't really a thing. Sure, you had huge blockbusters like the S…

Now, I'm largely against the deification of any public figures. It's much too far a leap to idolize an individual based on their public persona. Look at Elon Musk as an example. A few years back, the internet treated him as some sort of real-life Tony Stark. An individual who was fighting for a brighter technological future for the world. But guess what? He ended up being an unhinged, cringe, attention-seeking megalomaniac. Never take famous people at face value. That being said, I'm willing to…

Happy Friday, Marvel Enthusiasts! It's that time of the week when we celebrate that sweet day before the weekend with a magnificently curated catalog of hilarious Marvel Cinematic Universe memes . This doesn't feel great to admit, but it's time to finally come to terms with an unfortunate fact: the “Secret Invasion” series on Disney Plus has been completely and utterly disappointing. There's still one more episode left, but it has been quite the stinker as of now. Unless the conclusion is absol…

This may be hard for some people to believe, but millennials weren't always the weary, depressed, broke people lined up to order the latest take on avocado toast or specialty coffee beverages. Nay, we were once young and full of life and hope. Just kidding, we were once young and battling an incredibly toxic culture surrounding body image that seemed to come at us from all angles. While the thin and sickly “heroin chic" look had fallen out of style by the mid-nineties, slimness was still the ph…

Happy Monday, Marvel Cinematic Universe fanatics! We're back once again for your weekly dose of Marvel gaffs and superhero memes. It hasn't been a very eventful week in terms of Marvel news. That's not particularly interesting, but sometimes no news is good news, right? The new “Secret Invasion” Disney Plus series is… continuing, I guess. The first two episodes haven't shown us anything particularly impactful or interesting. I'm still holding out hope for a bump in quality. There's a lot that M…

It's been a very, very long time since I gushed over any men in cinema, with a few exceptions. There's something about Chris Pine that just gets me going, and I'd do just about anything for Oscar Isaac or Diego Luna. But do I really analyze their appearances beyond looking good? Hell no. The people of Twitter cannot relate to this ambivalence. The bird app is a haven for “stans,” and while much of the manic, obsessive energy is dedicated to K-Pop stars, no celebrity is safe from the ever-postin…

I remember the first time I watched Jesse Plemons on a screen. The red-headed Texan was aptly starring in the television adaptation of Friday Night Lights, which remains one of my favorite series of all time. There's just something about melodramatic sports media that resonates with me deeply. While the character he portrayed, Landry Clark, wasn't even close to being a stud like Tim Riggins or Coach Eric Taylor (sue me), his acting was brilliant. Thanks to his very obvious skill, Jesse Plemons…

One of the first things I learned about in film studies, after Eadweard Muybridge's The Horse in Motion, and the works of the Lumiere brothers, was the Hollywood Studio System. While it was technically the creation of Jewish immigrants, which sounds progressive, it was, in fact, a very toxic empire and way of conducting business. The demands placed on actors were brutal, especially concerning body image. Despite the toxicity, my fascination with the era remains, and I was delighted this week to…

It doesn't seem that people have much reason to get angry

Cinema is healing.

There are plenty of average people who look like celebrities. With over 7 billion people on Earth walking around, doppelgängers are bound to exist. But it's a bit jarring when famous celebrities look exactly alike, because the pool of Hollywood actors is obviously much, much smaller than that of the world's population. But is it a just a coincidence that Samara Weaving, Emma Mackey, Margot Robbie, and Jaime Pressly look like they could be quadruplets, or does this prove that Hollywood has a ver…

They can't let Mexico have all the fun.

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