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All in Geek Out
Jacob York examines the 2018 Game of the Year God of War through the lens of the quarantine that the world is currently dealing with.
Midsommar, Ari Aster’s follow up to 2018’s horror classic, Hereditary, offers a new take on an old trope, but does it do enough to separate itself from his debut?
Twenty years ago, The Blair Witch Project rocked the film world with its unique, low-budget aesthetics and guerrilla marketing strategies and with that, an entirely new genre began. To celebrate the anniversary, Colby McHugh revisits his own experience with the film and how it helped form lasting impressions that still stick with him today.
Welcome to Avengers Week here at Mirror Box! Each day, we’ll feature a piece from our incredible writers that highlights each original member of the iconic team and discuss the cultural impact and relevance these characters have on the big screen! As a fitting end to our series, Jacob York gives us his take on the first avenger himself, Captain America!
Welcome to Avengers Week here at Mirror Box! Each day, we’ll feature a piece from our incredible writers that highlights each original member of the iconic team and discuss the cultural impact and relevance these characters have on the big screen! In this piece, Sonya May takes a deep dive into one of the most underrated (and underused) characters in the Marvel Universe, Hawkeye!
Welcome to Avengers Week here at Mirror Box! Each day, we’ll feature a piece from our incredible writers that highlights each original member of the iconic team and discuss the cultural impact and relevance these characters have on the big screen! Today, Violet Conner takes a deep dive into the God of Thunder, Thor!
Welcome to Avengers Week here at Mirror Box! Each day, we’ll feature a piece from our incredible writers that highlights each original member of the iconic team and discuss the cultural impact and relevance these characters have on the big screen! Hudson Phillips gives us his own take on the big screen history of the redheaded (and sometimes blonde) Russian assassin herself, the Black Widow!
Welcome to Avengers Week here at Mirror Box! Each day, we’ll feature a piece from our incredible writers that highlights each original member of the iconic team and discuss the cultural impact and relevance these characters have on the big screen! In our next piece, Colby McHugh explores the cinematic career of a certain gamma irradiated individual who could probably benefit from some therapy. Of course, I’m referring to the Incredible Hulk!
Welcome to Avengers week here at Mirror Box! Each day, we’ll feature a piece from our incredible writes that highlights each original member of the iconic team and discuss the cultural impact and relevance these characters have on the big screen! This first piece is from Alex Oakley, as he takes a deep dive into the one that started it all: Iron Man!
Alex and Monica geek out over the 90s action flick masterpiece INDEPENDENCE DAY (probably maybe possibly the greatest patriotic film of all time).
Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart takes cues from teen comedies of the past, but changes the formula enough to make it totally unique and totally enjoyable.
The Mirror Box staff comes together to give their opinions on the best adaptations that have been made, what stories are begging to be adapted, and other burning questions!
Jim Cummings is one of those rare filmmakers that was able to successfully adapt his own short film, and with spectacular results. Colby McHugh takes a deep dive into one of his favorite films of 2018, Cummings’ own Thunder Road.
Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation. creates a meta world of anxiety and neuroses around its protagonist, Charlie Kaufman. CK Love examines these aspects and let’s us in on how she personally relates to them.
The comic book medium is full of amazing stories just waiting to be adapted into film. Colby McHugh gives us five of his top picks that have not yet been adapted yet, but definitely should be.
Jacob York writes of his lifelong love of professional wrestling and the identity crisis that wrestlers have dealt with as the fans have continued to grow with them throughout the years.
Jordan Noel examines his obsession with the short-lived genre of Glam Rock and how Todd Hayne’s Velvet Goldmine influenced his own personal life and direction.
