By Zach Nichols In our modern era of filmmaking, (i.e. ever since the internet boom and our subsequent massive increase in exposure to the filmmaking process and the absolute destruction of movie magic by our own predispositioned opinion of a…
2016 Election Snapshot: And the Winner Will Be…
By Trevor Law Be prepared, we are diving into the future again! This time we are running into the maelstrom that is the Republican primary. As I said in my last post, it is most likely the Republican party will…
Things are about to get weird on True Detective
More than any other thing I have missed from season one of True Detective, that has been missing thus far in season two, is the sense of existential dread. That dread was made manifest by the philosophical ramblings of Rust Cohle,…
Sequel Prequel Cash Cows (Modern Blockbuster Pt. 2)
Did you read my previous post on blockbusters? Good, now you’re up to speed. Otherwise this tame profane-less rant won’t make much sense and besides, I hate doing recaps. Prepare yourselves, I’m going to talk about sequels
Drink up me hearties yo ho in new League of Legends event
It’s time for a high stakes high seas adventure in the world of Runeterra in League of Legends. Currently League of Legends has a special summer event going on that currently has its focus on the characters of Graves (a…
The Best Books in Secret Wars
We are now halfway through Secret Wars, the Marvel event so big it’s shaping what Marvel will look like for here on out. The only downside to Secret Wars is that the event is so huge it literally spans across…
The Good, the Mediocre, and the Piles of Trash (Modern Blockbusters Pt. 1)
Over the years, I’ve grown rather tired of blockbusters. I feel like we choose to give these money machines a pass just so we can continue to see our favorite characters in new stories (or re-hashes, but let’s not tackle…
On Battleworld the Civil War Never Ended
The best part about all the Secret Wars tie-in is that they have allowed whole lines of What-if comics playing off some of the most popular Marvel events and classic comics. I’ll save my favorites for another post, but Civil…
What’s Wrong with Superman?
Rewatch is a regular column on Nerd Union where we watch a old movie or episode of one of our favorite TV shows and try to judge it against what we know now to be the good and the bad.…
A snapshot of 2016 elections
I CAN SEE THE FUTURE, or at least that is what I tell people. Wait, let me explain before this starts sounding like the rantings of a mad man. I have been watching the shifting of electoral politics in this…