superheroes & media & hopeful moping
This post will be updated as cosplayers IDs reveal themselves, or not. More SDCC 2019 stuff to come at my Patreon page. The crime fiction novelist Walter Mosley said a cool thing about Spider-Man once, I don’t mean to take it too out of context, but it speaks to a special awareness that was particularly on…
The “Disney Princess” mythos is a genre as restrictive as it is globally-superpowered, but in terms of the Official Princess Movie with the most patriarchy-subverting politics, I think it’s no contest: MULAN is by far the most progressive-minded cel-animated Disney Princess film, while also performing its essential sedative-hypnotic function on your child’s developing emotional vocabulary….
Maddow’s mad. I watch her show enough to notice when she’s feeling extra-deeply about a thing. She has the skilled thespian’s ability to control her emotions while seeming like she’s not able to control them (or the reverse). It’s part of why she’s really good at television. Today she was mad-not-mad about a court ruling…
To augment our latest podcast episode from The Nerds Of Color, here are my favorite Easter Eggs and fun facts from JESSICA JONES: ENDGAME, I mean, JESSICA JONES Season 3 A.K.A. The End Of The Marvel-Netflix Universe (SPOILERS to follow): – Episode 1: “A.K.A. The Perfect Burger” is directed by Michael Lehmann, who also directed HEATHERS, the sublime…
No associated rant, just fresh new podcast with The Nerds Of Color’s Keith Chow! Alas, Swamp TV Thing, we hardly knew ye: somewhere, maybe Alan Moore is smiling. Follow me at@: dommah, ThorHulkCritic on FB, Patreon. Have a great weekend!
