Entries Tagged as 'superheroes'

Friday, May 10th, 2013

The Search For Stark

First of all, do yourself a favor and watch this 2 minutes and 44 seconds of utter awesomeness above. Then recall the ending of Iron Man 3. In fact, recall the entire 130 minutes of its insulting, technology guilt-laden self-hatred. Or better yet, don’t do that. If you’ve been here since 2010, you know that [...]

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Monday, March 5th, 2012

The Next 21st Century Superhero Will Be a Chick

A musician friend of mine was once seeing the best friend of a famous heiress and he told me this story: “I had been dating her for a month and one night she invited me out to go meet her whole crew for the first time. I was SUPER nervous. Meeting the group of friends [...]

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Monday, February 13th, 2012

(The Craft + Carrie) * ♂ = Chronicle

I’ll start by stating for the record that I LOVED Josh Trank’s Chronicle. I’d been excited to see it ever since I first saw the the trailer, below, which is basically structured unlike any other I’d ever seen. And the movie was, indeed, awesome. I wholly agree with assessments like Entertainment Weekly’s that “the movie [...]

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Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

The Top 5 Social Creature Posts Of 2010

If you’re just joining us, here’s the top 5 things that happened here this year: 1. Why Iron Man Is The First 21st Century Superhero For the past 70 years we have been living with a 20th century version of the superhero. Until now. Though the Iron Man character was originally created in the early [...]

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Monday, August 9th, 2010

The First 21st Century Vampires

A month before the premiere of True Blood’s third season earlier this summer I wrote a post about the first 21st century superhero. The new Iron Man, as reimagined by Jon Favreau and portrayed by Robert Downey Jr., had broken the mold constricting the superhero archetype since its inception back in the late 1930′s, and [...]

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