Lindsay Ellis

It's time to re-examine the decade-old culture surrounding Twilight-bashing.

We're broken people now.

Some have called The Shape of Water ... gimmicky, shall we say, but the desire to get down and dirty with monsters is (wait for it) a tale as old as time.

In which we look back at The Hobbit trilogy and try to give it a fair shake.

So we've looked into what the problems were with these movies, the question now is... why? What happened, Peter Jackson? WHAT HAPPENED?

Nothing is pure.

Are you sick of Star Wars video essays? Yeah, me too. I'm sorry but it's my turn to talk about a Star War.

Thanks, I hate it.

“Roadshows command premium prices and the exclusive firstruns presumably whet appetites for the subsequent runs at regular prices. And they justify financially the greater length, high costs, starrier casts, and whatever else is big about bigness. The roadshow contagion is now so epidemic that almost any picture deal which comes along is very carefully mined for its intermission potential.”--Charles Champlin, The Los Angeles Times, 1967

What is brand can never die.