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Dueling Auteurs: Kong: Skull Island vs Godzilla

March 23, 2017 By Justin Micallef Leave a Comment

Kong Skull Island

Because we’re geeks, we frequently find it’s easier to understand an artist’s work when comparing them to another artist, finding out the common or antithetical traits that bind them. Hence Dueling Auteurs, a column where we take two auteurs from any medium and compare and contrast them. This month, we pit Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ new Kong: Skull Island […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: action, blockbusters, Film, Gareth Evans, Godzilla, Heart of Darkness, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, King Kong, Kong: Skull Island, Samuel L. Jackson, Toby Kebdell

Last Action Cinema: Nemesis

September 22, 2016 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Nemesis Olivier Gruner

Here at Loser City, we’re unabashed genre fans but even we recognize that action films can often be difficult to defend. Lucky for you, we’ve decided to look back at some of the best examples from the genre, analyzing what it is about these works specifically that allows them to succeed. Today, Nick Hanover delves […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: action, Albert Pyun, Film, Last Action Cinema, Nemesis, Olivier Gruner, Shaw Brothers

Level Up is More Than a Mushroom, Not Yet a Tanooki Suit

August 26, 2016 By Chris Jones Leave a Comment

Level Up Josh Bowman

It’s not uncommon for a film’s best and most memorable character to be the locale in which it takes place: the sweat drenched glitz and grime of a Michael Mann cityscape, the paradise-turned-Hell of WWII Polynesia in The Thin Red Line, the looming shadows of Jean-Pierre Melville’s noir vision of Paris. So too is the […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: action, crime, Film, Level Up, London

No More Mancubes: In Defense of Suicide Squad

August 13, 2016 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Suicide Squad

Last weekend, the Austin contingent of Loser City got together to watch the much maligned hit Suicide Squad. Kayleigh Hughes, Chris Jones and Nick Hanover (and Dylan Garsee, who is too busy running a fancy chicken shack to participate in roundtables these days) went in with low expectations but were pleasantly surprised by the film, so […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: action, David Ayer, DC Comics, Film, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Suicide Squad, Viola Davis, Will Smith

Lights, Camera…Action?: A Dialogue That Asks “Are Superhero Movies, Action Movies?”

March 9, 2016 By Shea Hennum Leave a Comment

Shea Hennum and Christopher M. Jones spend a lot of time arguing the rules of genre. So instead of letting them continue to distract us here in the imaginary Loser City offices, we forced them to get together and attempt to settle one of their biggest semantic conflicts: are superheroes action movies? Shea Hennum: So, […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: action, Batman, Blockbuster, Christopher Jones, Commando, Death Race 2000, Die Hard, Edge of Tomorrow, fighting, Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man, James Bond, Ong-Bak, Pulp Fiction, Shea Hennum, Superman, The Avengers, The Raid, The Raid 2, The Raid: Redemption, The Winter Soldier, Tony Stark, Transformers

Dueling Auteurs- George Miller x Joss Whedon: The Ballad of Joss and George

May 26, 2015 By Mason Walker Leave a Comment

Mad Max Fury Road

Because we’re geeks, we frequently find it’s easier to understand an artist’s work when comparing them to another artist, finding out the common or antithetical traits that bind them. Hence Dueling Auteurs, a column where we take two auteurs from any medium and compare and contrast them. This month, Mason Walker pits this summer’s two biggest […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: action, Age of Ultron, Avengers, Dueling Auteurs, Film, Fury Road, George Miller, Joss Whedon, Mad Max, Marvel

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