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C’Mon Hollywood: Strong Female Characters Should Be More Like Ripley, Less Like Madame Web

Posted 11 months ago

In this episode of C'Mon Hollywood, our host explains why cool heroines like Ripley will always be better than "woke" ones.

C’mon Hollywood: James Gunn and the culture of Trial by Twitter

Posted 7 years ago

Here we are again and it seems like we keep coming back to this sad, dark well with no sign of slowing down. Last week, after a series of offensive tweets by director James Gunn were uncovered, the ol’ knee-jerk...

C’mon Hollywood: Use the Flashpoint movie to help reboot the DCEU

Posted 8 years ago

It’s no secret that I’m not really a fan of the DCEU. While WONDER WOMAN was great, and I love MAN OF STEEL – warts and all – I pretty much hated the grimdark nonsense that was BATMAN V SUPERMAN...

C’mon Hollywood: Don’t screw up the Spawn reboot!

Posted 8 years ago

When I was growing up as an awkward Goth kid (instead of the highly secure Goth adult I am today), I obviously gravitated towards “darker” and “edgier” heroes like Batman, The Punisher, and of course – the patron saint of...

C’mon Hollywood: Take more chances on those Star Wars spin-offs!

Posted 8 years ago

Is it just me, or does it seem Disney has been shoving STAR WARS down our throats lately? They’re all like, “Hey kids! Do you like STAR WARS? Can’t get enough of it, right? No? Well, fuck you, you’re getting all...

C’mon Hollywood: Make Sandman into a TV show already!

Posted 8 years ago

THE SANDMAN is one of the seminal comic-book stories of all time. Written by Neil Gaiman, the series – about the adventures of Morpheus, the eponymous "Sandman" and personification of "Dreams" – explored the deep intricacies of mythology, themes of love and...

C’mon Hollywood: Where are all the cool opening credits sequences?

Posted 8 years ago

I can recall the first time I saw a movie without an opening credits scene. It was MUMMY RETURNS. I remember being distracted during the whole Scorpion King prologue, because I was thinking…wait…where are the opening credits? Afterwards, I thought I...

C’mon Hollywood: Film vs. Digital

Posted 8 years ago

DC vs. Marvel. Sega vs. Nintendo. Betty vs. Veronica. RC Cola vs. Tab. We can now put “film vs. digital” within the pantheon of great debates that will lead people to lose friends, get into fisticuffs, and lead to murder...

C’mon Hollywood: Why critics are important

Posted 8 years ago

While it’s lessened quite a bit over the years, there’s still this cultural image of a film critic as a bespectacled balding guy in a professor’s tweed jacket (the one’s with the darker colored fabric on the elbows for some...

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