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Oct/Nov 2008
A Supervillian’s Primer to Lola Rennt
Don’t Believe The Hype!
Office Politics, Demons, and Gruesome Murders — Ligotti Style
Dystopic Visions of the Future: A Roundtable on CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
OMG Twilight OMG!!!
Halloween 2008: a Cinematic Pilgrimage
Wine and Cheez
Ship of Fools – By Richard Paul Russo
The Nanojunkie Diaries
The Armchair Semiotician: “Badges of Loyalty”
Melons! Hardcore Porn and Politics in The Wayward Cloud
The Warm Heart of King Cool
Madhur Bhandarkar’s Fashion Crime
The La’s – Deluxe Reissue in Review
Drunken Master vs. Ganja Boxer. Round 1: “FIGHT!”
Now What?
Afraid of the Stocks? You Should Be.
Hub Express
The Horrors are Real – A Reading Journal
Skeptical Panda and the Credit Crisis
Machine in the Shell: “Dark City” Revisited
Sex and Superheroes in “The Boys” (NSFW)
Don’t Eat Me, I’m Only the Cameraman
The Queue Conundrum
The Undead Franchise
A Conspicuous Lack of Consumption
Female Sexuality: In Need of Another Revolution
Idyllwild Dreaming
December 2008
The Guilty Treasure Trove: “Scrooged” (1988)
Of Rab, Raj and Shahrukh
New York and New Friends, Auld Lang Syne…
The Ideology of Pragmatism
Transylvania Towers
Corruption, Seduction and Informed Consent
Timecrimes: El hombre que doblarse a sí mismo
Surprise! There Are No Dragons
The Circus is in Town
Maximum Movie: The Secret of Slumdog’s Success
Fight Club 9 years later
The Art Of Mark S. Gagne
Adventures in Ambience – An Ambient Music Primer
Born in Japan, Made in the U.S.A.
I Remember…
The Other Writers’ World
Ding, dong merrily? Carols in a secular age
10 Christmas Songs We Never Want to Hear Again
Idyllwild Dreaming II
Featured Artist Of The Month: Mark S. Gagne
January 2009
To the Nines: 1959 — Cross Dressers, Frenchmen, and the Wrongly Accused
Guilty Treasure Trove II: Below/Sydney White/Three O’Clock High
Contemporary Romance: 10 Great Films
A Year Late and a Dollar Short: 2007 in Review
Pixar: Between The Lines
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Oscar/Howard
Low and Outside, Episode One: Primal Rage: The Avatars
Transylvania Towers II
Cinema Paradiso (1989 – Director’s Cut)
The Ten Most Important Cinematic Daikaiju
The Armchair Semiotician: 10 Things I Rate About You
2009 Predictions
Of Human Listage
Idyllwild Dreaming III
Man, That’s Weird
Masala Madness at Hotel Naseeb
February 2009
Dear Brutus
Movers and Bleeders and Pushers, Oh My!
Zach’s TV Review: Dollhouse
King of the Knock Offs
Design! Three Ways of Looking at Love
Hand on Hip: Mall Cops and Robbers
Throat jabs, torture and sex slaves in gaie Paris!
2008: A Year in Music
Manos: The Slumdog of Fate
Special People Read Books!
Frusciante’s Masterpiece
Gold in the Desert: 2008 in Film
Angels With Dirty Faces
Larry Niven’s Ringworld
Playtime Featured Artist: Daniel Davis
Ronin: Movie Without A Master
Idyllwild Dreaming IV
March 2009
Jessica Evalyn Valle Gallery
Q&A with Jessica Evalyn Valle
The Chronicles Of Prydain
Buffy Between the Lines Interview : Tabitha Grace Smith and Kim Butler
Fanfiction is No Longer A Dirty Word: Buffy Between the Lines
I have nothing to contribute: Like cockblock, but for writers
A contact with God
Catherine: Portrait of a Modern Woman in Jules et Jim
Taxicab Confession: My Brother and I Are Aliens
Through the Secret Door, Adventures in Otherland
Watchmen vs The Dark Knight
We Watched the Watchmen: A Roundtable
A Dark Tale of Heroic Deeds, Presented in Glorious SNYDERVISION™
Low and Outside, Episode Two: The Calamari Wrestler
Fearless Campfire Stalkers: or, Pardon Me, but Your Machete Is in My Neck
Watching The Watchmen
Nothing Ends, Adrian: Watchmen’s Implicit Aftermath
Homogenized Formula: Milk as Mainstream Product
Marie de France is not the Old Coke
Idyllwild Dreaming V
To the Nines: 1969 – Sixguns, Shamans, and Satire
April 2009
Job makes a movie
4 Fast 2 Serious
Et tu, brohan?
Yesterday’s Here: A trip to Adventureland
10 Things I Learnt from Watching House, MD
Brighton Beach Blues: Two Lovers
Gossip, girl!
Don’t eat me, I’m only the cameraman! (Part 2)
Never con a con man, kid
Buffy the Emasculator?
Exclusive: One On One With Dr. Manhattan’s Penis
Pulp Fiction? More like Pulp Crap!
Michael Bay To Remake Bicycle Thieves
How to Be a Trekkie
May 2009
Anvil! A review of Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Holy See, flunky do: another DBSM*
To boldly go: A roundtable on Star Trek
Socket to me!
Your worst nightmare: a six-year-old with a badge
My monolith: How The Black Hole guided the evolution of a cineaste
Top 5 starships: Star Wars, comics, and UFOs
For the love of irrelevance
The serious dieter’s guide to utensils
Punch-drunk life
June 2009
The 7 Most Essential Genre Conventions
Faith-based Fanboys
Action as Easy as 1 2 3
Play Mistily for Me
Logan’s (Anti-)Heroes
We Can Remake It For You Wholesale
Five of my Favorite Fairy Tales
The 11 Most Essential Writing Implements
Light Years Backward: Women in Star Trek
Hopping off the bandwagon train to the stars
July 2009
The Light is Out: (500) Days of Summer
Public Enemies: The Old Mann’s Still an Artist with a Thompson
Open Your Mouth and Scream “Ahhh!”: Drag Me to Hell‘s Oral Fixation
Cogs in the Machine
Top 5: Stars Who Suffer in Silence
Movie Roundup – Kambakkht Ishq & Blood the Last Vampire
Big, Stupid Soul-Suckers from Mars (Now a Major Motion Picture!)
Taken: Stripped to the Bone
Life’s Up; Then You Die
August 2009
GI Joe: the Rise of My Blood Pressure
Gems of My Personal Library
The Modern Merlin
Harry Potter and the One-Time Potterphobe
After Life: Remembrance of Things Past
September 2009
Measures of Silence
Gallery: A Zach and Jessica Collaboration
A Tribute to Patrick Swayze (1952-2009)
Plain Damn Weird: an Appreciation of Frank Miller’s The Spirit
Pearl Jam Live @ Ahoy, Rotterdam
October 2009
The Headless Woman
Here Be Wild Things
A Guide to Horror in 2009
Portal and The Meta-Narrative Maker
Writing and Freedom in Slave Moth
The Listathon: Excalibur
The Cove: So Long, and Thanks for All the Polemics!
Nov/Dec 2009
Inviting Stare: In the City of Sylvia
Why Owls Hoot
Chickpea Soup for the Soul: Cold Souls
Journey Through Kill Bill: Part 3 & 4
Rebel Yellnikoff: Woody Allen’s Whatever Works
Journey Through Kill Bill: Part 1 & 2
The Guilty Treasure Trove: Hudson Hawk
Green Day Live@Ahoy, Rotterdam
Stephen King’s Cell: Don’t Bother Recharging this One
Jan/Feb 2010
Stock Hollywood characters in dire need of retirement
Majora’s Mask (A Long Time From Now, In a Country Far Far Away)
Playtime Featured Artist: Janet Skeslien Charles
2000s Cinema: My Favorites
Suspended Anticipation: Grayson‘s Pop Art
Gaia Ex Machina: James Cameron’s Avatar
March 2010
Journey Through Kill Bill: Part 6 & 7
Aughts, Oughts, and Ends: Playtime Presents the Best of 2000-2009
Turn Off Your Brain: Worst Films of 2009
Os-what? Playtime Does the Oscars
And a Rock Feels No Pain: Shutter Island
Journey Through Kill Bill: Part 5
April 2010
Kick-Ass shoots itself in the foot
Journey Through Kill Bill: Part 8 & 9
How To Train Your Dragon
Crazy (Alcoholic with a) Heart (of Gold)
Why e-readers suck
May/June 2010
Smith in Dragon’s Shadow: The Karate Kid
The Man of Your Dreams: Sam Bayer’s New Nightmare
Playtime’s Favorite War (and Anti-War) Films
Adam W’s Titanic: Now an Internet Disaster
A Clash of History and Fiction in Titanic
Sharunas Bartas’ Three Days
Welcome to the Machine
June 2010
Julytember 2010
Alonso’s Fantasma and Nikolaidis’s Morning Patrol
Playtime Featured Artists: Team Robo
Don’t Eat Me (Part 3): Paranormal Activity 2
2010 In Comics: The Middle 48%
Machete: Trailer vs. Film
Cleavage, In A Crimefighting Sense
Urban Life and Individuality: Boyz n the Hood
Video Games and Compulsory Learning
March 2011
Don’t Eat Me, I’m Only the Cameraman, Part 4: The Last Exorcism
True Grit: Return of the One-Eyed Fat Man
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