Is the Joker scary because people are afraid of clowns, or are people afraid of clowns because of the Joker? One of America’s most iconic, instantly recognizable fictional characters, the Joker’s been causing mayhem since 1940. He’s been Batman’s most popular antagonist in all of Batman’s incarnations throughout various media. […]
Author: EJ Feddes
Half-Ass Concert Review: Tom Waits – Glitter & Doom (Jul 8)
I don’t really understand concert reviews. Reviewing something that happened once is, I don’t know, more like bragging. Will a good review convince you to travel back in time to see Tom Waits at the Ohio Theatre? And on a tour that’s already sold out, either you’ve already got a […]
A Beautiful Gory Display: Wanted (Jul 8)
On the one hand, the movie version of Wanted has Morgan Freeman. On the other hand, it does not have a character made of “the collected feces of the six hundred and sixty-six most evil men on the planet”. Morgan Freeman is pretty awesome, but that’s not what I call […]
Half-Ass Movie Review: Wall-E (Jul 8)
So what if Wall-E has been in theaters for 10 entire days and is yesterday’s news. We here at spunkybean don’t review things in a knee-jerk fashion in advance of a movie’s release. No sir. We watch movies. Meditate on them. Watch them again. And again. We sneak around the […]
Who Needs Fresh Air?: Action – The Complete Series (Jul 2)
Wow, it’s warm outside. And with a holiday weekend there are going to be picnics and fireworks and crowds and flying disc related games. It’s a little bit horrifying, frankly. If you want to avoid all of that hullabaloo, I recommend hiding out in your TV bunker with Action: The […]
Half-Ass Movie Review: Futurama – Beast with a Billion Backs (Jul 1)
It is without exaggeration that I say that the FOX Network’s cancellation of Futurama was one of the great injustices of our time. A sci-fi comedy from Simpsons creator Matt Groening, starring an alcoholic robot, it is quite frankly, one of the greatest things ever. Finding new ratings life on […]