Sex sells. This is not a bold thesis so much as a stubborn, unkillable truth, and few mediums have leaned into it more enthusiastically than cinema. From the earliest flickers of film, sexuality has been baked into the language of movies. One of the first films ever publicly exhibited, The Kiss (1886), ran a scandalous…
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Transforming Comics – Free Comic Book Day, The Gateway In
Hello readers, I am here with a new weekly article that will center news for comics and related media. The focus will sometimes run into my current favourite on-going series Transformers, but today is more of a look into getting started with comic collecting and reading. For that purpose I am going to tell you about a…
The Many Faces of Superman
“It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman!” It would be hard to deny that there is no character more iconic than Superman, you would have to travel to a very obscure and isolated spot on this Earth to locate someone who couldn’t identify The Man of Steel from even just his trademark symbol –…
10 Things Unconventional Gamer Girls Will Understand: Another Perspective
Alright, I understand that the gaming world is a vast ocean of variety, but I cannot help but notice that the gamers of the female variance are getting a bad rap. I wouldn’t consider myself a “hardcore” gamer, but I do consider myself qualified to write on the perspective of gaming as a female. Which,…
Nintendo’s Wierd Regional Differences in Video Games
Surely, playing a game, whether it’s PAL, NTSC, or JP region will be exactly the same, right? Well, I may not have been the first one to tell you, but that’s simply not the case. Especially in Nintendo games it seems, it’s very common in video games for details to be completely changed or re-worked…