Author: Adam Bellotto
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Gotham Crafts a Unique Villain From a Comic Throwaway
Fox Television I’m convinced the Gotham writing staff is playing some kind of contest to come up with the most baffling character names possible. This…
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Mad Men’s Generational War Doesn’t End the Way You’d Think
AMC Does the name E. K. Pond Peanut Butter do anything for you? Yeah, me neither. It also failed to capture anyone’s attention in 1920, so manufacturer…
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How the Machines Will Kill Us All, According to The Movies
Marvel Comics This article is part of Humanity and the Machine, our exploration of the cinematic interactions between humans and self-aware machines. If you’re reading…
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6 Unbelievably Stupid, Artificially Intelligent Machines From Movies
This article is part of Humanity and the Machine, our exploration of the cinematic interactions between humans and self-aware machines. Alex Garland’s Ex Machina (if…
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Gotham Recap: ‘Beasts of Prey’ Goes Heavy on Surprise, Still Disappoints
Did you miss Gotham while it took a month off? Maybe a little? To be honest, I can’t decide if I did or not. I…
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Everyone on Mad Men Is Doomed to Be Alone
AMC For 4,000 years, people have been pairing into legally-binding partnerships – aka, marriage – but it wasn’t until we hit the general ancient Greece/Rome…
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Mad Men and Peggy Lee Prove That’s Not Quite All There Is
AMC In 1896, Thomas Mann put the finishing touches on a short story titled “Disillusionment” (or, in Mann’s native German, “Enttäuschung”). In the story, the…
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Why Does a Minority Superhero Require a Minority Director?
Marvel Here’s something that, taken on its own, should merit nothing but a yeah, so? Luke Cage, the third of Marvel’s planned Netflix superhero pentalogy,…
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Quentin Tarantino’s Endless Homages to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Here’s a news bite that seemed to slip under the radar last week: Quentin Tarantino released his official Top 20 Spaghetti Westerns of All Time…