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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Episode 39: Chips Are Free. Dinner Extra.
The overthinkers tackle guilty pop cultural pleasures, Dante’s Inferno (the movie based on the video game), the Jack Bauer cowboy/superhero myth, sexting, the Home Alone Syndrome, improbable sequels, and movie songs that tell you the plot of the movie.
Open Thread for March 28, 2009
A slow entertainment news week.
OTI Goes Sweding [Think Tank]
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The Adult Film Industry Rediscovers Its Balls
Isn’t It Antitypical? Beyond Morissettian Irony
Overthinking Anime: Kawaii Culture, Superflat, and the Bomb in Paranoia Agent
Anime developed in Japan after World War II and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Coincidence? Satoshi Kon thinks not…
Blackmailing Your Boss: The Key to Wealth and Power
Two popular films released in the fall of 1999 contained minor subplots in which the protagonist blackmails his boss as a key to wealth and independence. These two films, Fight Club and American Beauty, live on opposite ends of White Male Angst Road.
Episode 38: Der Haifisch in Venedig
The Overthinkers discuss series finales, Battlestar Galactica, and the importance of B movies.
Systematic Street Fighters and Skilltesters
If you’ve been playing as much Street Fighter IV as I have (or any online at all), you should probably appreciate this. I claim no credit for it myself and have no idea who made it, but I thought the…