We’ve started a weekly tradition here on Atom Insider: Giving a shout-out to some of our friends around these here internet parts holding it down in the realm of movie journalism and pop culture. Each week, we’ll bring you a hand-picked selection of the most thought-provoking pieces, the funniest takes, and other interesting bits and pieces you might have missed, all gathered for your entertainment.
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Monsters In Men: Guillermo del Toro is known for his monsters. But some of his best villains have been of the human persuasion, argues Patrick Crossen. – Film Inquiry
Cool Hand Luke: The late Luke Perry defined an entire ethos of effortless cool for the ’90s generation. – THR
Shallow Pals: The delightful friendship between Brie Larson and Sam Jackson continues to grow on the Captain Marvel press train. This time, they sang an adlibbed duet of ‘Shallow’ and it went about as well as you’d expect. – Pajiba
#SneakyThanos: Scott Wampler is well-known for being one of entertainment journalism’s best pranksters. This time, he challenged people to a #SneakyThanos photoshop contest to insert the big, purple guy into famous images. The entries were hilarious. – Birth.Movies.Death.
Physical Fade-Out: Physical media is dying out. But Kieran Fisher makes the case for why we can’t let it fade away entirely. – Film School Rejects
The Beginning of the End: ICYMI, HBO dropped the trailer for the final season of Game of Thrones…
The trailer is here. #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/L48jOwsUzn
— Game of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) March 5, 2019
…and Cinemablend had some thoughts about it.
Take The Throne: The trailer raised more questions than answers… Mick Joest has seven crucial questions to ask about the last season of GoT. – Cinemablend
Stranger Than Fiction: Some fans have wondered why Doctor Strange saw exactly 14,000, 605 possible alternative futures in Avengers: Infinity War. One fan took it even further and broke down the math to come up with the reason why. – Screen Rant
Almost But Not Quite: Writer-director Neil Jordan returned to screens last weekend with Greta. But what about the projects of his that never got made? – Talkhouse
Pokédex Of Horror: Some of the Pokémon of Detective Pikachu are adorable and some are, well, horrifying. Here are the Pokémon of the trailers, ranked by their horrifyingness. – iO9
And finally…
Girls Got Game: Mae Abdukbaki explores the double standard that female-led films are held to in the wake of Captain Marvel‘s review-bombing by trolls. – The Young Folks
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