The Clown from INCEL

Is the new Joker movie from Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix a call for incels to rise up? Is it a troll by Hollywood to make the dissident Right push Antifa agitprop? Or is it just another cape movie with a drawn out origin story bogged down by try-hard realism? You…
October 7, 20192 Comments
The Corporate IP Death Cycle

The Corporate IP Death Cycle

As a fitting follow up to yesterday's post about how shortsighted corporatism killed American comics, YouTuber David V. Stewart recommended his insightful video The 5 Phases of Corporate IP Ownership. In his video, David breaks down the corporate decision making process that runs franchises across all media, not just comics,…
September 24, 201915 Comments
WrongWinning

WrongWinning

Despite decades of evidence to the contrary, some Conservatives and Libertarians still refuse to learn that they cannot defeat the Left by accepting the enemy's philosophical premises while scolding their own side for being too effective. In short, they'd rather police their erstwhile allies for wrongwinning than actually win. Freedom…
August 12, 201921 Comments
High Noon

High Noon

If you want sterling example of top-down social engineering, look no further than the death of the western. The western genre dominated novels, magazines, comics, and movies for decades. Contrary to common misconceptions, westerns never faded in popularity. One day, the word came down that westerns were over. These days,…
August 7, 201921 Comments
Is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Superversive?

Is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Superversive?

It's been a while since we did one of these. I can think of no better occasion than the release of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the latest movie from Hollywood's last auteur director. Tarantino has called this film a love letter to Hollywood. That's an apt description. Specifically,…
July 31, 201913 Comments
Clueless by Design

Clueless by Design

My dual review of Heathers and Mean Girls elicited multiple requests for me to give my take on Clueless. I'd somehow managed to avoid seeing Clueless all these years. But pleasing my readers is job one, so last night I watched the movie for the first time. Now, I pointed out before how…
July 25, 201934 Comments

MCU: The Inversion of Christ

This video comes to us from a reader who, like many, is coming to realize that Disney and Marvel aren't making movies. They're churning out Christianity-subverting propaganda. Admittedly, the video starts off pretty cringe. But get past the vacation Bible school delivery and the Virgin-Mary-in-the-toast apophenia, and you'll see there…
July 24, 201918 Comments
Mean Heathers

Mean Heathers

Hollywood producers long ago figured out that they could repackage audiences' high school experience and sell it back to them. It's a testament to human vanity that a four year stint in what now amounts to a juvenile detention center can be glamorized into a long-running subgenre. As with everything,…
July 22, 201918 Comments
Identity Entertainment

Identity Entertainment

We mischievous iconoclasts who strive to throw back the curtain on the subversion of pop culture must face a harsh reality. Most members of fandom like it where they are. They don't want to be redpilled. Like the dwellers in the Matrix, they will fight to protect the system that…
May 7, 201935 Comments
Not a Movie

Not a Movie

A reader writes: Hi there, Came across a blog post you made about the degredation of nerd culture since the 90's. I've kind of been waking up to the evident corporate hijacking of nerd culture vehicles more and more, and now I can't even enjoy watching a film anymore for…
May 6, 201941 Comments