Posts by Stephanie Rose
BATTLEWORLD BATTLEWORLD
BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD Round 1, Battle 3 follow the bracket here! SECRET WARS: BATTLEWORLD #1 VS SPIDER-VERSE #1 “Blessed are the nerds, for they shall inherit the earth.†-Matthew 5:5 …mostly We are living in a world that would have been inconceivable 20 years ago. Nerds/nerd culture has gone from the physical representation of…
Read MoreTHE 2015 POPFILTER TV CHALLENGE: MARCH MADNESS
iZombie vs Bloodline Follow the bracket here! Here we sit, on the precipice of the climactic battle that is The Pop Filter Television Challenge: March Madness Bracket. This penultimate battle pits Bloodline against iZombie. The winner goes on to fight the good fight against The Last Man on Earth. The loser will be forced…
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Follow the Tournament Here! Round One Big Time in Hollywood, Fl vs Bloodline Florida is a sulfurous hell-hole. It isn’t even prejudiced to hate this awful place. In fact it is your civic duty as an American to feel ashamed to share a federal government with this gigantic, godless swamp. Both of the shows going…
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Follow the Tournament Here! Round 2 iZombie vs Powers It is with great pleasure that I kick Powers the funk out of this bracket. Goodbye Powers! It’s just that the nicest thing I can say about Powers is that it’s one notch higher than unwatchable. The second episode isn’t as carried away with pointless details…
Read MoreKanye is a Puppet master, and We’re all Puppets
Unless you just crash landed your spaceship you’ve no doubt heard what happened at the Grammy’s with Kanye West and Beck. Kanye stormed the stage after Beck picked up Album of the Year, presumably in protest of Beck’s win. Beck was up against Kanye’s friend (and woman he is obviously secretly in love with) Beyonce,…
Read MorePopFilter Editorial: The Best Songwriter You’ve Never Heard Of
Pop music gets little to no respect as a genre. It’s passe, for squealing pubescent girls who show up to concerts with their reluctant fathers and glitter smeared across the apples of their be-acned cheeks. The lyrics in pop is about as deep as a side-walk puddle, especially in comparison to rap and…
Read MoreClaudius’s Speech On Grief
Popfilter Special Report: Watch a Movie for Social Justice
If you’ve visited the website for longer than 2 seconds, you get that the tone ranges from semi-serious reviews to the out-and-out farcical. We do our best to shy away from political discussions of any kind, as they are mostly total bummers. We try to be entertainment about entertainment, and (because we refuse to do…
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The Little Mermaid: Feminist Horror Story or Trans Hero? Disney Princess movies have attracted some, albeit understandable, antagonism based on the messages of the stories. These criticisms are playfully reductionist views that are arrived at by boiling down what the hero’s journey was all about. They are probably best represented by a series of pithy…
Read MoreThe 2014 PopFilter New Fall TV Challenge
Round Three UNCLE VS JANE THE VIRGIN Click here to see the Bracket (This round compares the first three episodes of Jane the Virgin and Uncle) Jane the Virgin is telenovela whose premise involves a virgin who gets accidentally gets artificially inseminated. Uncle is about a slovenly dickhead who redeems himself by connecting with…
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