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How the Clerks Movies Make Change Inevitable | READUS 201

How the Clerks Movies Make Change Inevitable | READUS 201

Kevin Smith finally has a movie trilogy under his belt with the 2022 release of Clerks 3! And in this installment of A Proper Movie Trilogy, I explore how the theme of all three Clerks movies work together with the story thread brought over from the original Clerks movie to mold all three films i...

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Is Venom Good or Bad (When You're Drunk)? | READUS 201

Is Venom Good or Bad (When You're Drunk)? | READUS 201

Thanks to reaching a Patreon goal, I answered an age-old question: Is Venom 2018 worth watching when you’re drunk? This Film Friday, I take another look at the Tom Hardy superhero movie -- completely drunk off wine this time -- to see if Venom 2018 is better when you’re drunk or if this film ...

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How Glass Onion Calls Out Capitalism (VIDEO SCRIPT)

This video is sponsored by Skillshare

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While there are definitely some things about this timeline I DON’T care for and makes me wonder what a variant one would look like if everything happened the way I wanted to, I’m glad we all can agree that one of ...

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How Glass Onion Calls Out Capitalism | READUS 101

How Glass Onion Calls Out Capitalism | READUS 101

Rian Johnson’s newest Benoit Blanc story, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” has been all the rage since it was released on Netflix. And while everyone is talking about how Glass Onion uses Edward Norton’s character Miles Bron as a way to criticize Elon Musk, the story of Glass Onion and...

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M3GAN Review

I’m 100% confident that M3GAN was ALWAYS going to be the film that got me back into regularly going to the movies. Not only was I -- like the majority of the internet -- enthralled by the trailer cuts ...

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New 2023 Movies I'm Excited For (VIDEO SCRIPT)

(sits on couch) Let’s talk about 2023 movies

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There are PLENTY of movies that have...been announced for 2023 that I’m REALLY looking forward to.

I said it like that because I don’t REALLY wanna commit to putting the release dates in stone, even if the studios ARE ...

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2023 CHANNEL UPDATE!

2023 CHANNEL UPDATE!

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New 2023 Movies I'm Excited For! | READUS 201

New 2023 Movies I'm Excited For! | READUS 201

When it comes to new movies 2023 is filled with interesting upcoming new releases. So out of all the most anticipated movies of 2023, I list 8 of the new 2023 movies I’m excited for the most -- whether or not they have a trailer -- as well as some upcoming movies I still want to see.

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How Gay is Wednesday's Nevermore Academy? (VIDEO SCRIPT)

This video is sponsored by Skillshare

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Readers, I feel like I need to clarify a couple of things before we get into the nitty-gritty of today’s lesson considering the subject matter.

Did I enjoy Netflix’s Wednesday? Yes.

/Considering how sh...

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How Gay is Wednesday's Nevermore Academy? | READUS 101

How Gay is Wednesday's Nevermore Academy? | READUS 101

Nevermore Academy, the school for outcasts in The Addams Family Netflix show “Wednesday,” contributes to modern-day mythos created by Addams Family Values by using Wednesday Nevermore Academy and its story to its allegory of being queer in a straight world that doesn’t want you. But in the ...

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The Queer Yearning of Clawhauser (VIDEO SCRIPT)

I’m gonna be 100 with you, Readers. I was starting to get a bit worried that we were never gonna get this Zootopia+ show

Don’t get me wrong; I was there for the initial announcement for it during D23

But at the rate of Disney+’s release slate for the year 2022 and all the market...

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The Queer Yearning of Clawhauser (Zootopia) | READUS 101

The Queer Yearning of Clawhauser (Zootopia) | READUS 101

With the release of Zootopia Plus and the short "So You Think You Can Prance" letting Clawhauser express his queer desires through his adventure with Chief Bogo, the queer yearning of Clawhauser in Zootopia can be further explored for the queer audience that are already enamored with the two, inc...

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Jordan Peele's Candyman: The Horror of Inevitability (VIDEO SCRIPT)

I wanna talk about Candyman.

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/Candyman is a horror film released in 2021 co-written and produced by Jordan Peele, and co-written and directed by Nia DaCosta. It acts as a legacy sequel to the 1992 film written and directed by Bernard Rose, ignoring the events of 1995’s Ca...

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Jordan Peele's Candyman: The Horror of Inevitability | READUS 101

Jordan Peele's Candyman: The Horror of Inevitability | READUS 101

Jordan Peele and Nia DaCosta’s 2021 legacy sequel to Candyman aimed to focus on the Cabrini Green gentrification after it dealt with segregation via redlining in Chicago, police brutality and heavy gang activity in the past. However, instead of making a better attempt to put the people of Cabri...

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How Debbie Made Addams Family Values EVEN GAYER (VIDEO SCRIPT)

The theatrically released live-action Addams Family films were two of my favorites growing up

Being a 90’s baby, these movies were my initial introduction to the IP having never read any of the New Yorker comic strips, or the 1964 sitcom

As a matter of fact, the only thing I had to ...

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How Debbie Made Addams Family Values EVEN GAYER | READUS 101

How Debbie Made Addams Family Values EVEN GAYER | READUS 101

When it comes to The Addams Family, Debbie Jellinsky -- aka The Black Widow -- became a beloved addition in 1993’s Addams Family Values, especially among Addams Family Values’ queer fans. But Addams Family Values already had a large queer following and a hidden message supporting the LGBTQ+ c...

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Where Bucky's Apology Fails (VIDEO SCRIPT)

This video is sponsored by BlackTooth Publishing

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Marvel Studios’ The Falcon and the Winter Soldier had a whole lot of firsts when it came to the MCU

It was the first time we saw US Agent

It was the first time we saw Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson suit up a...

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Where Bucky's Apology Fails | READUS 101

Where Bucky's Apology Fails | READUS 101

When Bucky apologizes to Sam in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, it received multiple reactions from different people. While the usual suspects called it “woke,” a significant amount of Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s African American fanbase either didn’t think Bucky Barnes’ apology ...

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Disney’s Pinocchio Remake is GOOD, Actually! (VIDEO SCRIPT)

Readers, apparently 2022 is the year of Pinocchio.

At least 3 movies involving the public domain wooden boy made of pine are slated to be released. From various creators.

And while I definitely plan on watching them all and and doing a video on which take on the story I prefer, I’d ...

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Disney’s Pinocchio Remake is GOOD, Actually! | READUS 101

Disney’s Pinocchio Remake is GOOD, Actually! | READUS 101

The 2022 remake of Disney’s Pinocchio that’s on Disney Plus has been labeled terrible, a trainwreck, and insultingly bad by others who’ve seen it. But I decided to watch Pinocchio 2022 and follow it up with a rewatch of Pinocchio 1940. The results are that the changes made to the Disney Pin...

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I Got Drunk off Wine and Watched Venom 2018 (VIDEO SCRIPT)

(Opens a bottle of wine and pours a glass to near full before taking a sip and looking at the camera) VENOM.

/Blah blah blah 2018 Sony Pictures. Blah blah blah Eddie Brock. Blah blah blah symbiotes. Blah blah blah I have a parasite/

It’s a Spider-Man related comic book movie that th...

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I Got Drunk off Wine and Watched Venom (2018) | READUS 101

I Got Drunk off Wine and Watched Venom (2018) | READUS 101

Here's my THIRD review and analysis of Venom (2018) as part one of my thank you for getting the Patreon to over $1000 a month in September! My video for "Let There Be Carnage" will be out next month!

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Exclusive Livestreams!

Morning, Readers!

First off, thank you all so much for your financial support. The move left me exhausted both mentally and financially, and I at least have rent covered thanks to you!

To make it up to you, I've been thinking of more things to do exclusively here on the Patreon for ev...

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Is Prey's Naru Really a Mary Sue? (VIDEO SCRIPT)

I’m gonna be honest with you, Readers. Despite me being a bigger fan of the Predator franchise than the Alien one when it comes to 20th Century’s alien horror franchises, I didn’t really like the direction the franchise was heading after Predator 2.

My initial take away from Predators...

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Is Prey's Naru Really a Mary Sue? | READUS 101

Is Prey's Naru Really a Mary Sue? | READUS 101

As the main character of 2022’s Predator prequel Prey, Naru has been labeled a Mary Sue character by a select group of individuals. Especially in regards to the Naru vs Predator fight. So I explain the origins of the Mary Sue trope, and cross-reference what it takes to make a Mary Sue character...

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Here’s Why Lightyear’s Zurg and Buzz Are BOOMERS! (VIDEO SCRIPT)

Readers, I don’t think it’s surprising anyone to hear that I never really had any expectations of Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story spinoff Lightyear

/If you’ve seen my video I made on it back when it was the talk of the town, the only thing I kinda contributed to the quote-unquote “hy...

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Here’s Why Lightyear’s Zurg and Buzz Are BOOMERS! | READUS 101

Here’s Why Lightyear’s Zurg and Buzz Are BOOMERS! | READUS 101

In Disney/Pixar’s Lightyear Zurg is revealed to be Buzz from an alternate timeline. But despite the backstory given with the scene, Lightyear’s Zurg reveal says a lot about Buzz and Zurg regarding where the character stands overall when it comes to sociopathic Boomer logic regularly associate...

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The Beauty in Joy's Breakdown (VIDEO SCRIPT)

Let me tell you I HATE that I didn’t catch Everything Everywhere All At Once in theaters.

And I had EVERY intention of doing so. Albeit under the condition that the obvious weekday matinee I went to allowed me to be in a damn near empty theater so that I could lower my risk of getting Cov...

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Thor: Love & Thunder Was Just As I Expected

I was not the biggest fan of Thor: Ragnarok.

While the first two films gave him the short end of the stick regarding fish out of water stories that made him the butt of the joke at times, and a sto...

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The Beauty in Joy's Breakdown: Everything Everywhere All At Once Explained | READUS 101

The Beauty in Joy's Breakdown: Everything Everywhere All At Once Explained | READUS 101

A24’s own multiverse movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once” starring Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis I thought was a beautiful way of telling a story with themes centered around nihilism and depression through Stephanie Hsu’s character Joy Wang and her Alphaverse varian...

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