Author Archives: John Keefe

As of July 10th, two years have passed since the last entry in Edgar Wright's vaunted comedy trilogy hit movie screens. Hard to believe but it's true. The World's End is entering into its terrible twos, while Hot Fuzz turned eight this year and Shaun of Read More

In keeping with their usual inability to understand things, feminists have consulted with their Matriarchal Overmind and gotten this weird idea that Mad Max is somehow all gender egalitarian and shit. I won't even talk about the kind of bald-faced Read More

Daredevil is the definition of runaway success, a glorious breath of fresh air that proves superhero properties still have some life left in them. I could gush on and on about why Daredevil is the best thing to happen to superheroes on screen since the Read More

Part of being a fan is ruining things. You can't very well let this intellectual property that's given you hours of joy get off without knowing how it's failed you. No, we must punish the things we love, usually by suggesting how they could totally be Read More

Let me be totally clear when I say Game of Thrones would not exist if LotR hadn’t blazed the trail. George R.R. Martin knows this and I know this. Tolkien invented fantasy fiction, and we are all richer for his contributions. But doing something first Read More

I'm not one of those Return of the Jedi haters. I still love the movie, it's got plenty of fantastic scenes even if it is where George Lucas's kid-friendly attitudes started to peek through all the layers of awesome. But there's an alternate universe Read More

Endings are tricky. They're the final note in a wonderful song, the last glorious bite of a pizza you ate all by yourself instead of doing social things. Nothing tarnishes the legacy of your book/movie/TV series/sexual encounter more than tripping at Read More

The World of Ice and Fire, the long-gestating introduction to GRRM’s denser-than-a-neutron-star fictional world, is as perfect a companion piece as any fan could ask for. Much like the main series, the book is contradictory, engaging, and offers a Read More