Ok yes. Plot armor in general is considered a mistake. With good reason. Enough plot armor and there are no stakes left in your plot, and the audience isn't worried your plot-armored characters may not make it. And if there's no suspense, there's no engagement or the engagement you get …
This year is the 30th anniversary of The Fugitive - that is, the Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones movie. It's a phenomenal movie, and maybe the high bar for the…I guess, the "mature thriller", we could call it.
Funny enough, it's a remake. In the conversation about good remakes, …
At the turn of the first millennium a jaded Dane with a dark past joins a group of Norse Vikings as they begin to embark on a dangerous voyage of raiding and piracy. Bjorn is a tall, powerful man, a berserker, a warrior of great ferocity, but he's not well …
Gatekeeping can be a pretty dickish practice… but not in every case. Generally we see it as a social pop culture trend where older established fans of something will try and put down new people and discourage them from …
Scene I have stunged apart all the eyes on all of the movies Apprehention from overseeing alarms Scent I have smashed apart all the noses on all of the missiles Reparation from overdosing alarms Sense I have spread apart all the tounges on all of the sea-waves Fascination from overboarding …
It goes without saying that the newly released movie, Across the Spiderverse, is one of the most popular superhero movies. The creators took one of the most divisive iterations of Spiderman, Miles Morales, and made him into a now beloved version of the titular character. They expand the Spider-lore through …
Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week I want to turn our attention to the power of small moments in time that gives comics so much poignancy and power when dealing with time. When we last talked about …
This wasn't the official poster, but the teaser poster, for the Last Crusade. There was a giant version of it in my local theater before the movie came out. Excitement unbound at the time!
My earliest clear memory of Indiana Jones - or one of his movies - was in …
Foreno has been ordered by the King to recruit twelve individuals for a “boring” (aka Very Important) mission. His inner left wrist is scribbled with numbers and an incomprehensible language; the right wrist holds a countdown timer and when it gets to zero, everything known, loved, and hated will be …
Injuries, especially to the head can be extremely bad but people are hit over the bonce and knocked out in popculture all the time. In violent sports like boxing or MMA it's …
The heart that drinks the sinks filling a glass of stagnation. With tongues so young joining the brass of sensation. The fruits that roots themselves to tears, those shall sow our cheers and thread on dead minds donation. The side that hides behind heaven rings, blessed are that obsessed of …