So, I’m a writer. Always have been. Back when I was very young child, I’d play Novelist in the awesome basement of my childhood home (and thanks for that, mom and dad). It’s an easy game: take a literal ream of blank paper and scrawl big loops of nonsense on one side, then fling that page behind you onto the pile of previously destroyed pages. I was a novelist, you see, and that’s how novelists worked

“Why does everything have to be complicated?” asks Scott Pilgrim in the middle of his very own movie. It’s not surprising that the boy would be worrying at this point — after all, the full title is Scott Pilgrim vs The World. But, like most of the movie, the title is an exaggeration, an inflation of reality that the characters indulge in an effort to escape the banality of their otherwise comfortable lives.

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-75 also recognizes

Who's got the button?

Rosy blush hides corporate shill

She's no final girl

Moneyball is a movie based on the events surrounding the Oakland A’s 2002 baseball season. The Mill & the Cross is a movie based on Pieter Bruegel’s 1564 painting The Way to Calvary. Baseball is practically a religion, so it makes sense that it’s obsessed with judgement and miracles. Christianity has a few hang-ups surrounding the judgement thing too, hence the thousands of paintings depicting the subject. Both films attempt to take a singular turning point in

Cast out of Asgard

Loki won that round, beefcake.

But Earth's coffee rules!

I've been brain-playing with some new ideas for Team Blood. I really enjoy doing the mashups, but sometimes they just take too damn long to write, so I don't post as frequently as I'd like. Also, my rules for what can be mashed are pretty specific: they must both be first-time views by me, and they must be the last two I saw. Also, I've nixed mashing

The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a book. In book form, it sold like hotcakes at the unparalleled Boswell Book Company, and I cannot count how many copies I must have shelved, stacked, shuffled, and sold during my tenure there. And yet, by circumstance, I have never read it -- so there will be no “book wuz better” comparisons in this review. The movie version, which I did see, drops the title down to The Hedgehog, and presumably dropped some