Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Selick’s 2001 fantasy horror-comedy Monkeybone was an enormous, infamous flop that suggests a cross between Beetlejuice and Being John Malkovich
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Kick-Ass is a nasty, curdled piece of work, despite extraordinary performances from Nicolas Cage and Chloe Grace Moretz as a rather unusual father-daughter team.
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Moral ambiguity is the name of the game as Bruce and Terry deal with morally conflicted android Zeta and Stalker, a foe turned ally from their past in my latest look at the cult cartoon Batman Beyond.
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Batman Beyond explores its lighter side in two wonderfully goofy episodes that find Terry squaring off against a super-villain gossip columnist voiced by Michael McKean and must juggle crime-fighting with looking after an EggBaby.
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Shriek returns with bloody vengeance on his mind and Terry’s friend acquires a robot girlfriend that causes all kinds of problems as my patron-funded exploration of Batman Beyond continues.
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My patron-funded exploration of the cult animated superhero show Batman Beyond explores the horrors of high school and the mind in episodes that find Bruce and Terry facing off against The Brain Trust, a secret society of telepathic villain and an old nemesis/former classmate of Terry’s.
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Video game month continues with a fortuitously VR/arcade-themed episode of Batman Beyond followed by the introduction of secondary villain Mad Stan, a Henry Rollins-like ranter voiced, deliciously enough, by Rollins himself.
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Batman Beyond continues to kick ass as Terry and Bruce square off against an obsessed hunter of the most dangerous game of all—Bat-Man—and Bruce reconnects with an old flame who also happens to be part of a playing cards-themed crime family.
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For the love of God, why are motivational Joker memes a thing?
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