Critical Hits & Misses #59

Courtesy of My Life With Buns
Left to Right: Mochi (♀), Charcoal (♂), and Pepper (♀).

In lieu of Bunday, we present you with your favorite horror films... re-enacted by kittens! (John)

• Another year, another offensive celebrity Halloween costume: this time it’s Hilary Duff and her boyfriend doing a pilgrim/Indian costume. Hey, at least she’s apologized already. (Ivonne)


• The Washington Post asks that burning question we all would like an answer to: Dear Science, why do people like scary movies and haunted houses? (Ivonne)

For today's musical hit, we're paying tribute to a great 80's classic, and also to the man who's name is synonymous with Dracula.  We give you: Bela Lugosi's Dead by The Bauhaus.  Happy Halloween! (Megan)

Today's critical rolls:

— Critical Writ has a super-duper strict comment policy that specifies a single rule above all others: don't ruin Halloween for the children. Seriously, this not a joke. Let children enjoy things.

Critical Hits & Misses #26 - Bunday, September 12th, 2016

Hark! Tis Bunday!

• Further extrapolation of the Taco Truck Hypothesis reveals we want to live in a Republican dystopia, as Jef Rouner writes for Free Press Houston. (Miz Opifex)
• Not only is there apparently going to be a Booster Gold movie—it’s also not going to be a part of the DCEU (a.k.a., the DC Murderverse). (Dominik)
• In a recent episode of CBC's The 180, Luke Savage warns against the trend of maple-washing: the unqualified suggestion that Canada is more progressive than the United States. (Etienne)

Revel in the fluffiness that is Bunday:

Today's musical hit is drawn straight from last week's comments: the Head and the Heart's most recent single, "All We Ever Knew."

Today's critical rolls:
1. If you could meet any scientist, who would it be and why? (Zach) 2. If there was a fifth season, what would you name it?

— Critical Writ has a super-duper strict comment policy that specifies a single rule above all others: understand that the rhetoric of Social Justice and actual fairness can be two very different things, and also: don't be a consumate miserabilist.

Critical Hits and Misses #21 - September 5th, 2016 - Blackjack Bunday

• In the mood for a fright? The latest episode of The NoSleep Podcast features a highly resourceful mother-daughter team-up. The dramatic reading of Down in the Library Basement by author Rona Vaselaar is available on the free version of the podcast. Content warning: it’s horror; there’s also description of sexual violence, but it’s not glamorized. (Etienne)

• Barb returns! Sort of. She joins Jimmy Fallon and the kids from Stranger Things in a skit on The Tonight Show to rant about her unjust demise. (Lacey)

The tiniest fluffer.

Haters gonna hate.

King Bun of Floofdom

Smudge is the Dovahkiin that Skyrim deserves.
Darling Little Bastard of Critical Roller Gordon Borland.

Maleficent is lounging about her dark tower, watching videos of other kittens.
Klingon of Contributor Megan Crittenden.

Max Rockacatsky is utterly unimpressed with you.
The Fur Baby of Contributor Miz Opifex.

In today's musical hit, Alejandra Ribera says "Goodnight, Persephone."

"Keep this light burning bright for me."

Today's critical rolls:

1. Do you have any animal companions?

— Critical Writ has a super-duper strict comment policy that specifies a single rule above all others: don't be a whining jizzgibbon.

Critical Hits & Misses #16: August 29th, 2016 - Bunday

The Flash and Leo Routh

• The cutest thing you’ll see all week: the Flash loses a race to the son of Superman/The Atom. (Ivonne)

• How the very white adaptation of his Scott Pilgrim made Bryan Lee O’Malley vow to only create mixed race protagonists, like himself. (Dominik)

• Roxane Gay writes in The New York Times about the past rape charges towards movie director Nate Parker: “I cannot separate the art and the artist, just as I cannot separate my blackness and my continuing desire for more representation of the black experience in film from my womanhood, my feminism, my own history of sexual violence, my humanity.” (Tova)

Introducing a new segment: Bunday!

What a majestic fluffer nutter.

Clearly, the best way to end a Bunday.

Slumber Buns are John's spirit animals.

For today's musical hit, Sleater-Kinney perform "Entertain" during the 2015 Pitchfork Music Festival. (Etienne)

Today's critical rolls:

1 What is your favorite type of confection? (Besides candy.)
2. If you were a bird, what type of bird do you think you would be?
3. What is the best snack to have during a movie? (Besides popcorn.)

—Critical Writ has a super-duper strict comment policy that specifies a single rule above all others: refrain from being douchetastic to one another.