COLUMN: What Happens to SUPERGIRL in The Age of Trump?

Full piece available on ScreenRant. Excerpt:

“A big part of what Supergirl rather openly (and, seemingly, very intentionally) shared with the Clinton campaign was an outlook “narrative” that held feminism, globalist/cosmopolitan diversity, and other so-called “social justice” causes as battles that had already been “won” – at least on a cultural level – and now had to be defended from an angry minority that wanted to see those victories reversed. In Supergirl, that angry minority is CADMUS, and they lose their fights on a semi-weekly basis. In reality, the views and movements CADMUS is framed as an analog to just pushed their candidate into the White House.”

Read the full column here.

THE ASSIGNMENT Trailer Doesn’t Want You To Know What It’s About

Well… this looks like a thing.

In case you’re late to the party (or just forgot) this Walter Hill joint was originally called TOMBOY and briefly re-titled as RE-ASSIGNMENT. Shot a year or two ago, it’s a Grindhouse-ish intentionally-trashy deal where the “hook” is that Michelle Rodriguez is playing a male hitman (“Frank Kitchen” – holy shit!) who, after a job goes bad, wakes up to discover that an evil surgeon (Sigourney Weaver) with an unnamed grudge against him has performed unwanted gender-reassignment surgery on him – in other words, he wakes up “as” Michelle Rodriguez, but still acting/talking/fighting/ like a snarky mas-macho hitman.

Yeah. Continue reading

Day of The Night of The Return of The Revenge of The Creature From The Last Jedi

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Yeah, I like it. Not too much else to be said at this point (Lucasfilm’s approach to hyping these things seems to be minimizing the potential for speculation so that the fanboys don’t cook up too many theories that the film can’t “live up to”) but it’s a good title that carries with it a certain amount of mystery i.e. who/what “The Last Jedi” actually refers to.

My off-the-cuff guess? They want you think “Oh, it’s Rey,” but it’ll be Luke. Continue reading