MM3503 - Justice Seymour

In the modern age of internet and social media, we as a society have hit a crossroads when it comes to its use and when to take it seriously or to dismiss it entirely. Social media is used as a means to get everyone as connected as possible. Whether it be Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, all are used to present an idea of yourself to people you may or may not know. Because of this, social media has been identified as something that must be done carefully because it can potentially make or break not only your ability to market yourself to potential employers but also to your entire friends and family. In the Summer of 2018, one of my favorite directors, James Gunn, was fired off of the film franchise Guardians of the Galaxy for tweets that had been rediscovered from his past after getting in a political argument with a Republican journalist (Gunn tends to lean left as his social media has come to prove.) After James Gunn's firing, social medias went crazy. For one, ...

Collider Live is a podcast/morning radio-esqe show run by film entertainment news YouTube channel Collider Video .  The show is run by Kristian Harloff of the former Schmoes Know and it's a mixture of movie news and Howard Stern type shenanigans. The show is a spiritual "Phase 7" of the now done Schmoes Know Movie Show (which ran for 6 previous "Phases" every time the show switched production houses) for everyone from the show has switched over to Collider, re-purposing the show to Collider Live. Collider Live is meant to have a laid back "Buddies in the bar talking Star Wars" type vibe. The show is pretty low tech in actuality (4 to 5 adults sitting in a windowless closet that sometimes looks like it smells a little) but has a lot of production value for something that is meant to seem so casual. The hosts, while each media/film critics, aren't obligated to talk about film on this particular show on the channel. They more talk about their ...

Let me just start off by saying that I know I already did this movie for the music review, but the film has just won an Oscar for Best Animated AND I recently rewatched it, and I would literally think less of myself if I didn't write about this movie. Spider-Man has always been the most meaningful superhero to me since as long as I could remember. Literally, besides a drink being dropped on me as a child, my first memories are at the theater watching the OG Spider-Man film back in 2002. What I love most about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse are the main themes of the movie, the most prominent being that literally ANYONE could be Spider-Man. These ideas weren't new, necessarily, but the fact that groups of people put so much effort into a film to inceptionize to children and adults alike that everyone was capable of putting on the mask, it is honestly inspiring. Stan Lee talked about one of his favorite aspects of Spider-Man being the fact that he has a full body su...

In December 2018, Netflix released a new film in the Black Mirror universes called Bandersnatch . The film is an attempt at interactive viewing, taking a "Choose your own adventure" approach to it's storytelling, giving viewers the option to influence the story as they go along, being presented a number of choices which lead them down a certain path in the story.  What makes this interesting isn't totally the technology used to allow people to influence the story in real time (Netflix has implemented this in a number of children's programming ), but the story both thematically looks at the potential dangers of this up and coming technology, in a way only Black Mirror can, but highlights some possibilities about how to forward entertainment media as a whole. When referring to Bandersnatch, I always ask my friends "Have you played Bandersnatch yet?" Not just to allude to the in-universe videogame the main character obsesses over, but because you don...

In 2019, everyone knows what a superhero is. Marvel movies are the biggest thing at the box office, superhero tv is almost half of what's on, and, in general, superheroes are cementing themselves as a piece of human existence. It might be hipster to say now, but I remember when it was still uncool to like superhero content. "Superman isn't real!" I would get often on the school yards of public school. I almost got in a fight over a stolen comic or two. Superheroes were my jam. They didn't start becoming everyone else's until 2008. The Dark Knight and the first Iron Man hit theaters, and people can't deny a good movie from being called a good movie. Slowly but surely, superheroes began to grow even more. In 2012, Marvel's The Avengers came out, and it was the first official stamp in culture that cemented that superheroes were what the market wanted to see. These movies not only made money, but had long term audience investment due to a serialized ...

After my favorite television show, The Leftovers , had ended, I didn't think I could find anything to help me cope with the loss of something so meaningful to my life. Thankfully, we live in the golden age of television and, now more than ever it seems, the golden just keeps getting more gold.  A good "bait and switch" show for me was the show Haunting of Hill House . I had heard about the show about a few weeks before it was dropped on Netflix when looking for spooky reading material (I came across the book but saw the show was coming and decided nah, put down the book, pick up the remote (or mouse or whatever)) The show's structure is very similar to the Leftovers in that every episode follows a different character's perspective through the same traumatizing events before pulling the characters together for the climatic moments. This show is so creative, so spooky, scary, and emotionally purging, I ate it up like candy corn. I often say I love sad televisi...

Spider-Man had quite the 2018. He died  (* spoilers *), he destroyed in his newest PS4 videogame , Venom (famed Spidey villain) surprised many, and to wrap it up in a Christmas bow is Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse . I was skeptical about this animated film, despite it's unique style, I feared it ran the issue of being too "kiddy." Couple that with the varied "appeal to the kids!" artists Sony had enlisted for the film's soundtrack, it looked to me as just a huge cash grab. And it IS a huge cash grab that, thankfully, is done so tastefully, I've been hooked. And to the soundtrack's credit, the music cues really seem to elevate some of the film's more dynamic moments.  I can confidently say that I know none of the artists on the album list pictured.  I know Post Malone from a Hot Ones Interview on YouTube and Nicki Minaj...well is Nicki Minaj. And Lil Wayne is old. Other than that I have no idea who any of these artists are. I don'...