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 […]
Last Action Cinema: Nemesis
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 […]
Level Up is More Than a Mushroom, Not Yet a Tanooki Suit
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 […]
No More Mancubes: In Defense of 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 […]
Lights, Camera…Action?: A Dialogue That Asks “Are Superhero Movies, Action Movies?”
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, […]
Dueling Auteurs- George Miller x Joss Whedon: The Ballad of Joss and George
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 […]
