The life of a superhero is a dangerous one. Wearing colorful (or sometimes muted) costumes, jumping off buildings, risking your life daily for some ideal; be it truth, justice, or just helping out the friendly neighborhood. Work like this tends to attract enemies. Enemies who’ll look for any avenue to…

The Walt Disney company is known for many things, the biggest of which is probably its long and successful history of making animated movies. But there is a certain class of movies that don’t get talked about as much (except on highly specific Tumblr blogs and niche twitter accounts). So…

The BatFamily might be the most well-known example of the found family in all of fiction. Bruce Wayne, billionaire orphan, collecting strays to be his surrogate (and sometimes actual) children. But when the Family is brought up, most of the discussion centers around his sons. Grayson, Jason, Drake, and Damien…

Since his debut in 1940, many a character has taken on the mantle of Robin. From Dick Grayson to Damien Wayne, different people and different interpretations of those people have donned the bright colors of Robin and been called “Boy Wonder” (or Girl Wonder for that period when Steph was…

September 3. A year ago today, my friends and I were fucking about in the faculty of law, signing white t-shirts and having a ball. Final exams were done. Well, mostly. If you were like me, you still had papers, but you came to feel among. And it was fun…

Legacy sequels are made with one goal in mind: make as much money as possible, banking on the nostalgia of the original IP. In recent years, we’ve seen a rise in such movies. From Ghostbusters: Afterlife to Matrix: Resurrections, studios are discovering that a quick way to attempt to make…

Platonic male relationships come in all shapes and sizes in media. From Batman and Robin’s “Dynamic Duo” in comics (and lesser known movies), to Butch and Sundance in movies. On the small screen, one duo rises above all others: Harvey Reginald Specter and Michael James Ross. The one thing that…

Superhero movies have been around for a very long time, and since the era of Superman in the 70s they have been growing in popularity with four of the top 10 (and 6 of the top 15) highest grossing movies being superhero films. In that time though, there have been…

Star Wars is one of the biggest media franchises in history, spanning 11 movies, multiple TV shows and comic books (read Vader Down, it is great). The movies exist on a sliding scale, from the highs of Empire Strikes Back to the lows of The Last Jedi. …