Korsgaard's Commentary

The Martian

2015-10-02T18:51:00.001-04:00

Mars certainly has carved a spot in the human imagination, which makes its reputation as a box office graveyard somewhat intriguing. The last time a movie about Mars was a box office success was Total Recall (not this one) back in 1990, with every movie to visit the red planet since then ending up as […]

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Water flows on Mars, and what this means

2015-09-30T10:48:00.001-04:00

After teasing over the past week regarding a major discovery concerning the red planet, NASA made a stunning announcement this morning when they shared the discover that liquid water flows on Mars. Using new data collected by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA released findings showing recurrent seepage of liquid water along Martian crater walls. Images collected by the […]

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The Green Inferno

2015-09-29T15:15:00.001-04:00

I’ve never made any apologies for the fact that I defend Cannibal Holocaust, a movie many (not entirely incorrectly) might describe as a controversial, gruesome and shocking film that crosses so many lines that it’s best left in the grindhouse era it came from. Cannibal Holocaust deserves its reputation, but it’s so much more than […]

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Kenan & Kel Reunite for “Good Burger” Sketch

2015-09-24T10:41:00.001-04:00

My dear readers, Jimmy Fallon finally did something useful on The Tonight Show. Just when you thought that 90’s nostalgia hit its peak with the return of Toonami, or Surge being brought back, or Nickelodeon deciding to dedicate an entire channel to television shows they ran in the 90s, we get to make a return […]

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Wizard World Richmond 2015

2015-09-06T01:02:00.001-04:00

Back in Richmond after a smashing first year for the convention, Wizard World Richmond was this past weekend. After a very successful first year, the Wizard World event returns to Richmond with some bigger names than before, and a bigger burden – with Ravencon leaving Richmond, aside from a few small fan organized conventions, Wizard […]

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The Transporter Refueled

2015-09-05T16:55:00.001-04:00

Jason Statham is one of the biggest names in action cinema today, and a big reason that is has to do with The Transporter. While he’d earned some small attention for lead roles in Guy Ritchie movies and starring in a couple of sci-fi movies, it was the 2002 European old school action thriller that […]

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We need to Change the way we talk about Mass Shootings

2015-08-31T16:08:00.001-04:00

Even with news of violence from around the world filling the airwaves or a few mouse clicks away, there are still crimes that manage to shock us. Such is the case with the recent murder of news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward by a crazed former co-worker this past Wednesday, gunned down during […]

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Straight Outta Compton

2015-08-24T16:57:00.001-04:00

Before Ice Cube was known mainly for making comedies, before Dr. Dre was more famous for his headphones than for his music, and before hip-hop became just another subset of bubblegum pop about getting your drink on at the club, there was the group that showed the world the strength of street knowledge, N.W.A. Though […]

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And His Name is John Cena

2015-08-24T15:02:00.001-04:00

If my Facebook news feed is any indication, it looks like the Internet has its latest memetic champion, and his name is John Cena. Cue any number of countless videos with an inopportune insertion of WWE wrestler John Cena and the horns of his hip-hop theme song on the tail end for a jump scare […]

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Fantastic Four

2015-08-07T07:50:00.001-04:00

You really wouldn’t think it would be that hard to adapt the Fantastic Four into a halfway decent movie. This actually marks the fourth attempt to make a movie franchise based around Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s original superteam having zany space adventures, and it should say something that the best of the previous three […]

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I’m now a freelance contributor to The Farmville Herald

2015-07-31T10:52:00.001-04:00

Hot on the heels of my time serving as a contributor to VCU Capital News Service, I’m proud to say I’ve gotten another position resulting from my time with them, this time as a freelance contributor for The Farmville Herald. As you might have gathered from the name, The Farmville Herald is a twice-weekly newspaper […]

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Let’s hope Pixels is Game Over for Adam Sandler

2015-07-24T18:49:00.001-04:00

This may come as something of a shock to you my dear readers, but Adam Sandler makes terrible movies. REALLY terrible movies. I mention this because Adam Sandler’s latest film, Pixels, opens today, and while no stranger to harsh criticism, Pixels it would seem is bad even by the curb Adam Sandler movies tend to […]

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Korsgaard’s Commentary turns 5 Today

2015-07-21T21:36:00.001-04:00

Way back in 2010, I made the first posting on a blog I started after much prodding from some buddies. Now here we are five years later, Korsgaard’s Commentary is still here, still going strong. I continue to be amazed that what began with a few bashful initial articles has grown into a website with hundreds […]

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Ant-Man

2015-07-21T06:47:00.001-04:00

Eventually, the near streak of white hot box office perfection coming out of Marvel Studios has to come to an end doesn’t it? They’ve been putting out hit after hit since 2008, and now seven years later, it’s become the biggest franchise in film history, and part of an omnipresent multimedia juggernaut. Even the most […]

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Fireworks

2015-07-08T16:25:00.001-04:00

Happy Independence Day my dear readers – if you don’t mind, today I’m going to be talking about something a little personal. Growing up, I used to love watching fireworks on the Fourth of July. Watching the skies crackle with color as we celebrated Independence Day by seemingly attempting to set the sky ablaze was […]

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Terminator Genisys

2015-07-07T16:24:00.001-04:00

Despite its ups and downs over the years, you’d be hard pressed to name a more influential action or science fiction franchise than the Terminator series. They made Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron household names. They gave us some of the greatest heroes and villains, moments and one-liners in movie history, and even a pretty […]

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Supreme Court Rules Gay Marriage Is a Nationwide Right

2015-06-29T19:11:00.001-04:00

Some of you may have noticed a rainbow tide flowing onto social media earlier today, for good reason. In a 5-4 decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that “the right of same-sex couples to marry…is part of the liberty promised by the Fourteenth Amendment.” Writing for the Court, Justice […]

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Star of Phantom Menace arrested – how many jokes can we make?

2015-06-29T18:08:00.001-04:00

Here at Korsgaard’s Commentary, I do my best not to resort to the sort of exploitative click-bait so common elsewhere on the Internet, I really do, but there are times when the forbidden fruit proves far too tempting. Case in point, Jake Lloyd, the former child star who infamously played Anakin Skywalker in the equally infamous […]

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Sir Christopher Lee dead at 93

2015-06-18T18:16:00.001-04:00

Few men can claim to have lived a more storied life than Sir Christopher Lee, whose life and career spanned from fighting in the special forces in World War II to an acting career that spanned decades. Sadly, as with any other storied life, it eventually had to come to an end, with Christopher Lee […]

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Jurassic World

2015-06-14T00:52:00.001-04:00

When reboots, remakes and sequels have become so common in the movie industry to the point we’re seeing our first rebooted reboots, it’s not much of a surprise that eventually someone would try and breath new life into the Jurassic Park franchise. This is Jurassic Park we’re talking about here – a movie that not only […]

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Kung Fury

2015-06-03T14:46:00.001-04:00

I told you to support the Kickstarter. I told you to tun in to it’s rocking theme song. Now I am proud to tell you that Kung Fury is finally here, and it is glorious. I was hooked from the first few seconds of the initial trailer, but even I wouldn’t have believed that Kung […]

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Support the Tales of Alethrion on Kickstarter

2015-06-03T11:57:00.001-04:00

In 2013, two animators from Denmark’s The Animation Workshop, Mikkel Mainz and Kenneth Ladekjer, who with their newly launched animation studio Sun Creature Studio, released their animated short film The Reward. It was a swords ’n’ sorcery story of two people pursuing a treasure map across a treacherous domain of monsters, robbers, and other possible dangers […]

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The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

2015-05-19T08:01:00.001-04:00

Today, one of 2015’s most anticipated video games, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, hits store shelves, and while no doubt as fantastic as the last two games in the series, it is not any of The Witcher video games that I wish to talk about today. The keywords being “video games.” Instead my dear readers, I […]

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Mad Max: Fury Road

2015-05-17T00:19:00.001-04:00

Few figures in popular culture or the action genre cast quite the shadow that Mad Max Rockatansky does. The Mad Max franchise was a trilogy of Australian post-apocalyptic action films by director George Miller, responsible for making Mel Gibson a household name, turned Mad Max into an iconic action hero, and left a lasting impact […]

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RavenCon 2015

2015-05-04T20:55:00.001-04:00

Its once more that time of year, when Richmond’s local sci-fi/fantasy/horror convention, RavenCon takes roost for the weekend, once again bringing several big name authors and industry bigwigs, along with thousands of genre fans to town. Watching RavenCon fill Richmond with genre buffs, tabletop gamers, cosplayers and nerds of all types and stripes is always […]

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