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 […]
Meta Mercenaries: Jurassic World Fucking Hates You
This week at Loser City we’re going to be discussing some meta mercenary works, commercial projects that tried to thwart their for-hire origins with some self-commentary, for better or for worse. Up first is a piece by Mark O. Stack on this year’s biggest blockbuster, Jurassic World, a film that attempted to give audiences exactly what […]