Mixed Media Archives : The Shared Universe

The Unfortunate Return of the Pandemic Panic Film Festival

Jesse Russell — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 04:12:34 +0000

Last year I came up with the idea of the Pandemic Panic Film Festival. One of the few good things to come out of the pandemic was the at-home accessibility of film festival screenings. The Telluride Horror Show and Nightstream Film Festival aligned in such a way that their virtual screenings meant two weeks of […]

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Warner Bros. Pictures provides cinemas a long runway for reopening

Jesse Russell — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:33:29 +0000

Warner Bros. Pictures is saving cinema. In early December of 2020, I first sat down to write this article. That first line was going to be my headline. The same day HBOMax/theater release strategy felt like the best possible decision considering the state of the world. Not every theater in the country was closed. Those […]

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Nightstream Review: Ema

Jesse Russell — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 16:41:53 +0000

In no particular order: intoxicating, boring, horny, punk rock, hilarious, horrifying, bewildering. Those are all of the adjectives that passed through my brain during the viewing of this delicious puzzle of a film. Intoxicating: A visually stunning piece of filmmaking with a perfectly paced score weaving everything together. Boring: I mean, I think? At times, […]

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Telluride Horror Show Review: 12 Hour Shift

Jesse Russell — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:07:19 +0000

In this day of age, Internet misinformation is just something we expect. We’ve almost reached a point where if something lands in front of you on a website or social network the instinct is to disbelieve. That hasn’t always been the case. One of the very first Internet rumors to take hold on a mass […]

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Frankensteining a pandemic horror film festival

Jesse Russell — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 04:26:14 +0000

The last time I was in a movie theater was March 13, 2020. COVID-19 had finally arrived on the U.S. shores, and we weren’t quite sure what it would mean, but everything was starting to shut down. I figured it would probably be one of my last opportunities to visit the cinema for a couple […]

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Does Netflix Really Have a Cancellation Problem?

Jesse Russell — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 03:18:04 +0000

If online media publications are to be believed, Netflix has a cancellation problem. That is literally the headline of a Motley Fool article published after the streaming service dropped Santa Clarita Diet. E! News suggested Netflix is on a “cancellation spree.” If you scroll through Twitter you’ll find plenty of people making the same assessment. […]

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Hulk Snap: Worse Than Thanos Snap?

Jesse Russell — Thu, 09 May 2019 02:00:00 +0000

It probably doesn’t need to be said but this article has significant spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. If you’re okay with spoilers jump past this picture of the Hulk and keep going. If you aren’t? Well, stop right here or Hulk smash. If you spend way too much time thinking about Avengers: Endgame you’ll start to realize […]

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Captain Marvel crushes completely ridiculous success metric

Jesse Russell — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:13:27 +0000

Captain Marvel has become the seventh film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to break $1 billion. It’s an incredibly significant metric for multiple reasons but perhaps most importantly because achieving $1 billion was a made-up measure of success by people looking for reasons to call the film a failure. It wasn’t until after Captain Marvel‘s […]

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Comic Book Shows: The Definitive Live-Action List

Jesse Russell — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 00:49:15 +0000

Have we reached peak comic book shows? We’re living in the heyday of shows based on comic book properties. There was a time when live action shows came out every couple years and the quality was always questionable. Shows like Wonder Woman, The Incredible Hulk, and Smallville were few and far between. We’d gnaw on […]

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Endgame Plus Dark Phoenix Equals A Secret Wars Film

Jesse Russell — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 02:18:09 +0000

We can preserve the X-Men and Avengers Universes while still bringing all of the heroes together. The stingers for Avengers: Endgame and X-Men: Dark Phoenix should start setting up a Secret Wars film. Here’s how… Disney has acquired Fox and with it comes the Marvel’s X-Men and all of the related properties. We don’t know when we’ll start seeing mutants […]

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