My Top 25 Films of The 2010s

My Top 25 Films of The 2010s

Hello internet. Nice to be with you again. Been a while, hasn’t it?

As you might have noticed from the complete lack of well, anythingaround here recently, my time was pretty monopolized in the second half of 2019. If you want to know why, you can easily find out (I’m a pretty open book, just Google me, mother fuckers.) But the point is, I haven’t done this in a while, so I’m probably pretty…

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The Good Place Season 4 Will Be The Show's Last, Which Is As Much Of A Bummer As It Is A Goddamn Relief

The Good Place Season 4 Will Be The Show’s Last, Which Is As Much Of A Bummer As It Is A Goddamn Relief

I don’t know if you’ve noticed recently but, with the rise of streaming networks, social media, and endless fan campaigns, an interesting thing tends to happen with TV shows: they never seem to truly fucking die. Like the horde of monsters at the center of the decade’s biggest show, many series end up strutting around like zombies long after their “death.” And like the series aboutthe horde of…

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Game of Thrones Concludes With "The Iron Throne," But Struggles To Answer The Question: What Was The Point of All This?

Game of Thrones Concludes With “The Iron Throne,” But Struggles To Answer The Question: What Was The Point of All This?

The series finale is a crucial, important part of a TV series’ lasting legacy. But it ISN’T the end all be all to one’s relationship to a series, or how we might perceive it in the future.

That’s something I’ve been trying to remind myself for years now, especially in the face of series finale’s that end up disappointing me. I might have hated where How I Met Your Motherultimately chose to…

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I Can't Stop Thinking About The Disturbing Implications of That Pokemon: Detective Pikachu Twist

I Can’t Stop Thinking About The Disturbing Implications of That Pokemon: Detective Pikachu Twist

I liked Pokemon: Detective Pikachu.That is a profoundly silly sentence to type, but it’s also the truth — the movie is a lot of fun, with some fantastic visuals, inventive world building, and a very funny Ryan Reynolds performance at its core. I guess if we still have to talk about the “video game curse” as it relates to movies, this is the first adaptation in my mind to really break it (although…

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Game of Thrones Utterly Fails To Deliver Its Show-Altering Tragedy in "The Bells", And That's The Greatest Tragedy of Them All

Game of Thrones Utterly Fails To Deliver Its Show-Altering Tragedy in “The Bells”, And That’s The Greatest Tragedy of Them All

“The Bells,” Game of Thrones‘ penultimate, and perhaps most pivotal, episode, is an absolute marvel. It’s a tour-de-force of an episode that confirms the series place in TV history as the first show I can think of that can deliver us huge, epic, exciting set pieces that rival (if not exceed) anything that comes from the big screen. It was visceral and beautiful and mesmerizing, and I will never…

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The 12 Best Moments of Avengers: Endgame

The 12 Best Moments of Avengers: Endgame

Warning: What follows in the first few paragraphs of this piece is the type of rambling, personal essay shit that has plagued many a pop culture essay for years now. You know the kind — where the author spends time rambling on-and-on about other shit, rather than actually writing about what you clicked on the article for? It’s annoying, sure, but what you have to understand is that the internet…

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For Game of Thrones,"The Long Night" Was Always Doomed To Disappoint

For Game of Thrones,”The Long Night” Was Always Doomed To Disappoint

Every time you approach the final chapter of a long-form story, there’s a certain level of hype inflation that goes with it. Just seeing a story you’ve been emotionally engaged in for years come to a close is in and of itself exciting but, usually, the people involved with it are heavily invested (literally) in making the conclusion feel as epic and huge as humanly possible. Look for no further…

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Quality Aside, Buckle Up: This Is Going To Be An Unforgettable Weekend In The History of Pop Culture

Quality Aside, Buckle Up: This Is Going To Be An Unforgettable Weekend In The History of Pop Culture

As you might have heard, this weekend brings the release of two pretty major pieces of entertainment. Projects so massive and conversation dominating that to escape their reach seems nigh impossible — they more than anything represent the media we are digesting in the year 2019, and have the clout to command millions if not billions of people’s interest worldwide.

I am of course talking about…

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Game of Thrones Presents "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Fan Service

Game of Thrones Presents “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Fan Service

“Fan service” is an interesting thing, isn’t it? On the one hand, it’s mostly a pejorative in this modern day-and-age of criticism: a way of describing something that feels artificial to the story at hand, and was just put in to appease, rather than improve. I can certainly understand why this perception has come about, and why it’s worth criticizing: lord knows I’ve seen my fair share of…

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"Winterfell" Is A Meandering, Table Setting Start To Game of Thrones' Final Season — As It Absolutely Should Be

“Winterfell” Is A Meandering, Table Setting Start To Game of Thrones’ Final Season — As It Absolutely Should Be

The most interesting thing about “Winterfell,” the highly awaited (and highly secretive — seriously, that title wasn’t even revealed until hours after the episode aired) start to Game of Thrones final denouement, is that it’s, well…a season premiere of Game of Thrones.

Yes, some people going in might have believed that, with a shortened season order and so much to wrap up, the show would kick…

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The Rise of Skywalker Trailer Was Barely Released 24 Hours Ago, But You Better Bet The Star Wars Discourse Is Already Exhausting

The Rise of Skywalker Trailer Was Barely Released 24 Hours Ago, But You Better Bet The Star Wars Discourse Is Already Exhausting

The Last Jedi broke the internet, and not even in a fun way, like with Kim Kardashian’s ass or Wreck-It Ralph’s ass. No, The Last Jedi’sfracturing of the online space whipped a bunch of really passionate people into an absolute frenzy, with people on the “love it!” side vehemently extolling the virtues of the film to anyone who would listen, whilst the “hate it!” side waxed poetically about the…

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10 Years After The Debut In Question, This Is A Ranked List of The 10 Best Episodes of Parks and Recreation, Arranged In Descending Order From The Number 10, To The Number 1

10 Years After The Debut In Question, This Is A Ranked List of The 10 Best Episodes of Parks and Recreation, Arranged In Descending Order From The Number 10, To The Number 1

Editor’s Note: Hey, did you realize that today was the 10th anniversary of the day that Parks and Recreation first premiered on NBC? Yeah, neither did I! But after the realization, and the two hours of crying that went with me staring straight into the anxious void of aging and death, I decided it would be as good a time as any to resurrect this one from the ol’ Geek Binge archives. Basically,…

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The First Joker Trailer Is Here And, Damn It, I Think I'm Kinda Into It

The First Joker Trailer Is Here And, Damn It, I Think I’m Kinda Into It

What is the point of a trailer, when it comes down to it? Back in the day, it was to simply illustrate something was coming — an announcement of sorts that, hey, you are in a movie theater right now watching a movie, and you could be doing it again in the months ahead with a TOTALLY DIFFERENT thing! Coming attractions, and all that. But with the advent of the internet came (like everything else)…

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The Once Upon A Time in Hollywood Teaser Trailer Is Quentin Tarantino Returning To His Roots

The Once Upon A Time in Hollywood Teaser Trailer Is Quentin Tarantino Returning To His Roots

A frequent criticism lobbed at the works of Quentin Tarantino is that, at the end of his day, his films can end up feeling rather similar. And there’s a kernel of truth to that conclusion: the man certainly has a style, especially when it comes to his heightened dialogue — you always know when you are watching a Tarantino movie or, at worse, a movie tryingto be a Tarantino movie. But the shocking…

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The Final Avengers: Endgame Trailer Embraces The End By Recalling The Beginning

The Final Avengers: Endgame Trailer Embraces The End By Recalling The Beginning

Typically, I’m not one to blow my own wad and spoil the premise of an upcoming article I’m working on. And, by working on, I mean that I’ve A) came up with a title B) took down like four or five bullet points about what I’m going to address in the piece and C) preyed to the writing gods to do all the work for me, because critique is exhausting and so emotionally draining. But I’m going to tease a…

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HBO: Give Us The Game of Thrones Season 8 Character Poster for Ghost, You Cowards

HBO: Give Us The Game of Thrones Season 8 Character Poster for Ghost, You Cowards

There’s a lot to love about Game of Thrones, which might go a long way in explaining its position as one of the most monolithic pop culture phenomenons of the past century. You got the dragons, and the zombie creatures, and the kickass, insanely ambitious action sequences. The huge cast of beloved characters, and the massive twists and turns the story takes in bringing us to their ultimate faith.…

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Matt’s (Extremely Late and Untimely But, Whatever, It’s Going Up Anyways) Top 10 Films of 2018

Matt’s (Extremely Late and Untimely But, Whatever, It’s Going Up Anyways) Top 10 Films of 2018

Yes, I know – who the fuck even cares?

..Is the usual public response to ANYTHING I post, but even more so with this thing! I mean, a Top 10 Films of 2018 list? What is this, December 2018? Well, don’t worry, you didn’t magically get thrown back in time (lord knows the last thing ANYONE wants now is to be hurled into 2018.) No, this article is posting at the tail end of February 2019,…

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