Joel Murphy “It’s impossible, Lois could never have Superman’s baby. Do you think her fallopian tubes could handle the sperm? I guarantee you he blows a load like a shotgun right through her back. What about her womb? Do you think it’s strong enough to carry his child? “He’s an alien, for Christ sake. His…
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Joel Murphy There is a film studio called The Asylum which makes its money creating cheap knockoffs of popular films like The Day The Earth Stopped, The Da Vinci Treasure and Transmorphers. After watching the two-hour premiere of The Cape on NBC and seeing all of the similarities the show has to the Batman comic…
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Joel Murphy On the surface, No Ordinary Family seems tailor made for someone like me. I’m a guy who has made camping out to see every Batman movie on opening night a priority in my life. Growing up, I had debates with friends about which superpower would be better – flight or invisibility (for the…
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Joel Murphy Vampires and werewolves are a hot commodity these days. Since Hollywood has never been able to stop itself from running a good idea into the ground, there are currently countless TV shows and movies out there featuring these iconic supernatural entities. That means that to stand out in a world oversaturated with these…
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Joel Murphy I’m baffled that we live in a world where Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are given awards for acting (even if they are just meaningless MTV Movie Awards) and I’m still not entirely sure what a Justin Bieber is, but being the editor of a pop culture site, I do try my best…
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Joel Murphy “Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.” – Henry Miller There are moments in life when average men are called to greatness. David was just another unassuming villager before he hoisted up that sling and slew Goliath. Jim…
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Joel Murphy This was inevitable. As longtime readers have undoubtedly surmised by now, I am not a Jimmy Fallon fan. I’ve taken shots at the guy in every single “Things that piss me off” column I’ve written, I mention the hate I have for him in my bio paragraph at the end of every article…
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Joel Murphy It’s a good time to be a Batman fan. After years of suffering through horrible films like Batman Forever and Batman and Robin, Bat-fans were finally rewarded when Christopher Nolan single-handedly saved the franchise with Batman Begins and this summer’s juggernaut The Dark Knight. And while The Dark Knight may go down in…
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Joel Murphy There is no question that both Hulk Hogan and the wrestling business itself are in a state of decline. Long gone are the glory days of Hulkamania, when I, along with countless other devoted children of the 80s, would have done just about anything Hulk Hogan asked me to. Sadly these days, when…
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Joel Murphy For months now, the USA Network has been running ads for the The Starter Wife. Seeing these ads over and over again, I realized three things: 1. It’s really hard to get “I Want Candy” by Bow Wow Wow out of your head. 2. Debra Messing’s delivery of “I live in a crazy…
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