Eirik Gumeny
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Was Community’s “Gas Leak” Season Really That Bad?
Community season 4 faced an uphill battle without its "captain" Dan Harmon. Is there redemption to be found for it 10 years later? → Read More
5 Embarrassing Low Points Of Fearsome Horror Movie Villains
Presenting true turds of moments deuced onto the heads of otherwise terrifying, nigh-unstoppable boogeymen. → Read More
'Dirty John' Has No Idea What Kind Of Show It Is
The true-crime drama based on a podcast is apparently ... an anthology show? → Read More
America’s First UFO Sighting Was Way Earlier Than You Think
Conventional wisdom might finger the '40s, but the truth has been out there - or not - for literal centuries. → Read More
The 'Ocean's Eleven' Mission Hiding Inside 'Mass Effect'
You don't usually expect a sophisticated art heist inside an outer space shoot 'em up. → Read More
'Assassin's Creed: Valhalla' Pays Tribute To '90s Music In The Goofiest Way
The Prodigy's most controversial song is the video game's deepest cut. → Read More
Reminder: Stormtroopers Are the Bad Guys, Guys
Call us crazy, but a faceless army of space-fascists shouldn't be on kids' lunchboxes. → Read More
'Zoobilee Zoo' Was Weird as Hell (Even by Kids' TV Standards)
When even Ben Vereen can't save your show, you know you're in trouble. → Read More
Bring Back 'Star Wars' Snot Vampires, You Cowards
The new canon is growing more and more every minute, but they remain glaringly absent. → Read More
The Worst Dracula Movie Ever Made
Got a hankering to see Dracula throw down with a notorious Old West outlaw, but in a movie that doesn't understand vampires, the Old West, or how to be a movie? Well, then, good news! → Read More
Star Wars' Saddest Character Is The Space Slug (No, Seriously)
For the 40th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, 40 authors were commissioned to write 40 short stories about 40 side characters from the movie, collected in an anthology called From a Certain Point of View. In between stories about Imperials and Rebels and that one guy running through Cloud City with an ice cream maker, Catherynne M. Valente penned a story about the space slug that eats the… → Read More
Movie Gripe: Why's It Only Coffee Cups That Are Empty?
Not beer or soda, it’s only ever coffee cups that are woefully and unmistakably empty. → Read More
The Horror Movie History of Bigfoot
Bigfoot's been in the popular consciousness a lot longer than you might think. → Read More
Odd '80s Trend: Turning R-Rated Movies Into Kids Cartoons
The late '80s had an almost pathological desire to flip every inappropriate movie out there into a kids cartoon, and kids were greatful. → Read More
How 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' Turned Darth Maul Into a Shakespeare Villain
The Maul that’s resurrected in 'The Clone Wars' was something else entirely. Something better. → Read More
How The Venture Bros. stumbled into the greatest superhero universe of all time
Back in the dark ages of 2003, years before HD programming was the norm, Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim premiered a strange new animated series called The Venture Bros., a satiric riff on the old Jonny Quest cartoon from the ‘60s. → Read More
Is everyone else also discovering the secret existential horror of Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
When Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released in March, a few weeks into the still-ongoing pandemic, many found the game to be a relaxing balm, a microcosm of peace and calm during the various and plentiful turmoils of 2020. → Read More
Avenue 5 is the nihilistic, eerily prescient pandemic binge you didn’t know you needed
While not as on-the-nose a choice for your quarantine viewing as Contagion or 12 Monkeys, Armando Iannucci’s space-faring satire is nonetheless eerily relevant. → Read More
Why The Morality Of The 'Star Wars' Universe Makes No Sense
The religion of the Jedi isn't super complicated. There's a Light Side and a Dark Side of the Force. The former is about selflessness and protecting the weak, latter is about fear and hatred. At the most pivotal moments in each film, the Force-using protagonist is required to make some choice between Light and Dark, usually in the form of choosing whether or not to kill some dude. That's why… → Read More
Star Wars: What Made Shadows of the Empire so Important
While Shadows of the Empire may not have had a long-lasting impact overall, the "multimedia adventure" was still an accomplishment, laying the groundw → Read More