Or, the power of homage. Back in the day, before everyone decided that intellectual property was a real thing, and writers/composers/artists liberally referenced one another as a method of giving credit and expounding, things were awesome. Now things are a little less awesome. Wait, no, that’s a stupid way to start this article. Let me try again. (Original...

We’re basically incapable of sticking to an agenda, which means another bulbous, freewheeling 100 minutes of BS about feelings and shitty exes, PORTAL 2 and Thor. With music from Atom and His Package, The Lonely Island and The Beastie Boys. For those who want to play along, follow this link to Joe Bageant’s “Deerhunting With Jesus”, the book...

When a movie mines nostalgia and sentiment as aggressively as “Toy Story 3″ does, it’s almost impossible to evaluate on its own terms. So here are four momentum-killing paragraphs of context. 1) I saw the first “Toy Story” with my friend Corey in 1995, when I was 11, at a shitty old multiplex in a shitty old shopping center near my...

(editor’s note: Nathan is wrong about almost everything he says in the next 700 words. Also, this comment is meant in jest! I just aggressively disagree with him.) *Spoiler Alert* (Actually, I’m just saving you time.) I started Virtuality expecting that a thriller with a space-exploration subplot that would have a somewhat resolved ending. But...

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