The first part of this series, where I talk about the historical context for superhero movies as a genre, is here. The second part, where I talk the superhero movies I think are the best, as well as the superhero movies other people think are the best, is here. The Auteurs of the Superhero Genre… Read More The Fourth Genre: The Auteurs
This is the second part of a three-part series. The first part, where I talk about the superhero genre’s place among other quintessentially American film genres, is here. The Best of the Fourth Genre What I was going to do here, in the interests of giving you the wisdom of crowds and critics, was one… Read More The Fourth Genre: The Best Superhero Movies
As any true -holic knows, a little grace goes a long way. As I read through and listened to dozens of Best of the Decade lists, I tried to apply a truth I’d always kept close about list-making: it’s about what’s not on the list as much as it is what’s there. To some extent,… Read More Top 100 Movies of the Decade (2010-2019): The Painful Cuts
Matt and I take several tacks in an X-Men podcast for the rest of us. We review X-Men: Apocalypse in the context of the new trilogy and preview what might happen in X-Men: Tired Fourth Movie in a Series; we give some thought to the Claremont run in particular, and to the paradox of the… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 16: Cranky Criticism from the Podcast in a Bottle
Seeing Things Secondhand 