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Why Warner Bros. should have left Zack Snyder’s DCEU alone

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Anghus Houvouras thinks Warner Bros. should have left Zack Snyder’s DCEU alone… Let’s go ahead and get all the vitriolic stuff out-of-the-way: Zack Snyder’s vision for the DC Extended Universe is divisive. Fans have been polarized for his emotionally obtuse versions of some of comics most iconic heroes. There are some of us who have […]

We’ll never see Zack Snyder’s Justice League and I’m angry

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Anghus Houvouras is angry that we’ll never get to see Zack Snyder’s Justice League… The best and worst thing about being an opinion based columnist is that the only requirement to write a column is having a strong opinion about something. For the last month or so, I haven’t. I’ve started a few pieces here […]

The scene that could have saved Batman v Superman

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Anghus Houvouras on the scene that could have saved Batman v Superman… Ok. Hyperbolic title. Engineered to elicit a reaction. There are those of us who believe Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice wasn’t a woefully mangled train wreck (the Ultimate Edition anyway). I’m still a fan of the Snyder’s visually engaging strange narratives. I think […]

Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame – A Post-Mortem

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Anghus Houvouras delves into Avengers: Endgame (major spoilers follow)… As a writer, there are times where you are genuinely excited to sit down in front of your computer and hammer out a column. When your typing fingers can barely keep up with the thoughts pouring out of your overactive cerebellum. There are others where your […]

Maybe they shouldn’t have brought back Han, Luke & Leia to Star Wars

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Anghus Houvouras on whether Lucasfilm should have kept Han, Luke and Leia out of the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy… There are times where I feel like Star Wars has become my white whale. At some point in my life I marveled at its magnificence, but now I’ve become embittered by its existence which continues to […]

Do Kaiju movies need human characters?

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Anghus Houvouras on kaiju movies and whether they need human characters… I love a good monster movie. They can, on occasion, still produce some of the childhood joy of watching massive creatures stomping on skyscrapers and battling one another to determine hierarchical dominance. All Kaiju movies deal with the same problem: the movie has to […]

Same-er Things: Yesterday, Stranger Things and the painful lack of originality in Hollywood

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Anghus Houvouras on Hollywood’s lack of originality… I’m not sure if I can convey the cringe-inducing feeling I get while watching any of the marketing for the new film Yesterday. As soon as the voice over establishing the basic premise of the movie is spoken, my brain begins to boil. “In a world where only […]

Was Avengers: Endgame really a realistic depiction of grief?

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Anghus Houvouras on Avengers: Endgame and its depiction of grief… People want so badly for the things they enjoy to be profound. It’s a strange trend that has emerged in recent years where people can’t simply enjoy music, television and movies but have to spend time explaining why these things transcend their medium and become […]

The Most Disappointing: Game of Thrones Season 8

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Anghus Houvouras on the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones… Spoilers. Lots of Spoilers. If we’re being honest, the final season of Game of Thrones was always going to be a disappointment. If for no other reason than this fully realized world that we became so fond of would no longer exist. Sure, […]

The Ridiculous Notion That Batman Never Kills

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Anghus Houvouras on Batman and the “no kill” policy… At this point in my career, I’ve spent a few hundred thousand words devoted to analyzing movies and television and the fevered hyperbole of fandom that encompasses it. Truth be told, I find myself far more fascinated by the pop culture zeitgeist and fandom that surrounds […]