The Tuesday Edition - Jul 10, 2018
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Movies, nostalgia, Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island Is the Greatest Franchise Movie of All Time

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998)
For anyone looking to update a nostalgic children's series for a new generation (looking at you Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teen Titans, and Thundercats), this is how it's done.
Big on the Internet

The Ever-Expanding Social Conscious of Horror: The Politics of The Purge

The First Purge
The First Purge, which used Trump-ian imagery to market the film, is the first movie in the franchise centered entirely around characters of color, namely black characters, with white characters serving as the villains.
Big on the Internet, Thanos, things we saw today

Things We Saw Today: Thanos Also Killed Half of All the Animals

Bucky Barnes and goats
It's been a subject for debate, if you're an Avengers nerd like me, as to whether Thanos' Infinity War Gauntlet snap swept up the family pets (and Bucky's goats in Wakanda) in its genocidal tide. According to Marvel Studios co-president Kevin Feige, this was indeed the case.
Big on the Internet, catrina dennis, Chuck Wendig, Star Wars (franchise)

Star Wars Fans Now Going After Lucasfilm Employees (But There’s Hope for Fandom Yet)

HouseOrgana on Redbubble sells a mug labelled "Fanboy Tears" for all your fangirling needs
"There's this sense sometimes, and I've felt it, that 'Wow, Star Wars Fandom is really messed up,' but that's a huge, huge mistake, and it gives these abusers way too much credit. They're really noisy, and it makes it seem like there's this huge division, but really, there's not," author Chuck Wendig told us.
News, Immigration, racism

Anti-Immigration White Nationalists Are Shocked–Shocked–to Find Other Countries’ Border Laws Affect Them

immigration racists dumb
In these people's eyes, the separation of Hispanic families = valid immigration laws. But entitled white folk being turned away at a border = CENSORSHIP!
Big on the Internet, Kylo Ren, rey, reylo, Star Wars (franchise)

Ship Wars: Why Rey and Kylo Ren Would Never Work Out

Star Wars: The Force Awakens sees Daisy Ridley's Rey locked in combat with Adam Driver's Kylo Ren
Star Wars ships. Inevitably, someone dies, someone's related to the other person, or they break up because their child decides to go be a space fascist. It's never a good time to fall in love while fighting a rebellion in space.
TV, Gilmore Girls, Jess Mariano, Luke Danes

Why Jess and Luke Were Not the Best Love Interests for the Gilmore Girls

Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham in Gilmore Girls (2000)
Now to be fair, I don't think any of the canon couples in Gilmore Girls are good.
TV, complicit, Gilead, The Handmaid's Tale

The Most Insidious Villain of The Handmaid’s Tale is Complicit Femininity

Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid's Tale
The women who were complicit in the Sons of Jacob's rise to power are also culpable, especially when they are the ones who created Gilead's archaic and terrifying laws.
News, Miss America, sexual misconduct

Miss Massachusetts Contestant Drops Out After Pageant’s Host Mocks #MeToo Onstage

miss america, miss massachusetts, resign, drop out, #MeToo
It wasn't a funny joke. It wasn't clever or edgy. It relied solely on "punching down," making survivors of sexual assault into the butt of a joke.
Movies, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers 4, Avengers: Infinity War

We Need to Talk About Ant-Man and The Wasp‘s Vital Post-Credits Scene

Ant-Man and The Wasp post-credits scene
Now that Ant-Man and The Wasp has hit theaters, we can finally yell about that post-credits scene. SPOILERSSS.
Big on the Internet, Movies, a quiet place, A24, hereditary

Artful Horror Movies like Hereditary Have a Lot of Ideas, but Often Little Heart

illy Shapiro in Hereditary (2018)
Saying your film is about something doesn't make it good if your horror movie is neither scary nor character driven in an interesting way. 
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