Bart Bishop
@bartlbishop.bsky.social
Lover of comics and movies. Blog on occasion. He/Him.
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Blawg! I've always thought Halloween 4 had a particular Christian vibe about it that made it stand out from the rest of the series. So I wrote about it!
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The Curious Christianity of HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS (1988)
God has been in the details of the Halloween series from the very beginning. In the 1978 original, Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance) says that the supernatural serial killer Michael Myers (Nick Cas…
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October 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Blawg! I've always thought Halloween 4 had a particular Christian vibe about it that made it stand out from the rest of the series. So I wrote about it!
bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/t...
bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/t...
Blawg! Lady and the Tramp mentions chop suey once. So I wrote thousands of words about its historical and cultural context!
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LADY AND THE TRAMP (1955) and Chop Suey
Lady and the Tramp (1955) has the iconic scene with the eponymous dogs eating spaghetti. But there’s another moment involving food that stood out to me in a recent viewing. Though my daughter…
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September 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Blawg! Lady and the Tramp mentions chop suey once. So I wrote thousands of words about its historical and cultural context!
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bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/l...
Blawg! I wrote about PROSPECT (2018), a movie I really enjoyed but I think some film critics misinterpreted.
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Daughters, Fan Fiction and Why Nick Allen is Wrong About PROSPECT (2018)
Long-time readers (do I have those?) might think I like picking fights with other film writers. After all, I devoted whole blogs to refuting Roger Ebert’s hatred of Swing Kids (1993) and Sara…
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September 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Blawg! I wrote about PROSPECT (2018), a movie I really enjoyed but I think some film critics misinterpreted.
bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/d...
bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/d...
Have you ever wanted a Jungian analysis of the 1989 Punisher movie? Boy have I got a blog for you. I wrote about how it gets a little weird about moms and the Japanese.
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THE PUNISHER (1989) to Mothers: Drop Dead
There’s a strange moment late in The Punisher (1989) involving a Japanese man wearing women’s high-heeled shoes. Frank Castle (Dolph Lundgren), the eponymous Punisher, has been stretche…
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August 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Have you ever wanted a Jungian analysis of the 1989 Punisher movie? Boy have I got a blog for you. I wrote about how it gets a little weird about moms and the Japanese.
bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/t...
bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/t...
Don't overthink it: what comic book panels/pages live in your head rent-free? Drop four and tag #comicsdna
July 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Don't overthink it: what comic book panels/pages live in your head rent-free? Drop four and tag #comicsdna
Blawg! Feeling a little overwhelmed by the state of the world? Look to the sci-fi movies of Stuart Gordon (namely Robot Jox, Fortress and Space Truckers) for messages about never compromising your personal identity.
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Personal Victories in the Dystopian Futures of Stuart Gordon
Just checking in six months into Trump 2. How we all doing? Yeah, not great. Strangely, I often find comfort these days in dystopian science fiction. In those stories the enemy is powerful but appa…
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July 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Blawg! Feeling a little overwhelmed by the state of the world? Look to the sci-fi movies of Stuart Gordon (namely Robot Jox, Fortress and Space Truckers) for messages about never compromising your personal identity.
bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/p...
bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/p...
"Name a show that only ran for one season" Okay but let's play hard mode and name a show that never made it past the pilot.
June 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"Name a show that only ran for one season" Okay but let's play hard mode and name a show that never made it past the pilot.
Let's blawg about sex! I wrote way too many words on why Tarantino always seems to have sex on the brain but claims to not include sex scenes in his movies.
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Quentin Tarantino is Weird About Sex (But Not in the Way You Think)
Sex is under attack in the United States. Congress has just introduced a bill, the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (IODA), to try to outlaw pornography. Not only is criminalizing porn a bad ide…
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May 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Let's blawg about sex! I wrote way too many words on why Tarantino always seems to have sex on the brain but claims to not include sex scenes in his movies.
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bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/q...
Live from the conclave
May 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Live from the conclave
It's May Day, and time to keep our appointment with the Wicker Man! I wrote a blawg about how director Danny Boyle has referenced THE WICKER MAN in multiple projects, including next month's 28 YEARS LATER!
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Danny Boyle Keeps Returning to THE WICKER MAN (1973)
The trailers for 28 Years Later (2025) have been giving a “folk horror” vibe: 28 Years Later is, of course, the long-waited sequel to the movie that resurrected zombies as a pop culture…
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May 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
It's May Day, and time to keep our appointment with the Wicker Man! I wrote a blawg about how director Danny Boyle has referenced THE WICKER MAN in multiple projects, including next month's 28 YEARS LATER!
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bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/d...
You best believe it's Emma Corrin, they of THE CROWN (Diana in the fourth season) and DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE (Cassandra Nova).
April 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
You best believe it's Emma Corrin, they of THE CROWN (Diana in the fourth season) and DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE (Cassandra Nova).
I don't know where you new followers came from but I hope you enjoy arbitrary connections in your film analysis. Read my exploration of Polynesian myths and the Arthurian wasteland and Grail legends in THE NAVIGATOR: A MEDIEVAL ODYSSEY (1988) and MOANA (2016).
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THE NAVIGATOR: A MEDIEVAL ODYSSEY (1988) vs. MOANA (2016)
I like the idea of tales that can be different interpretations and different meanings from, and the different meanings they have are actually all truthful because they’re truthful for the peo…
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March 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I don't know where you new followers came from but I hope you enjoy arbitrary connections in your film analysis. Read my exploration of Polynesian myths and the Arthurian wasteland and Grail legends in THE NAVIGATOR: A MEDIEVAL ODYSSEY (1988) and MOANA (2016).
bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/t...
bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/t...
March 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Best Star Trek crew. Wrong answers only.
March 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Best Star Trek crew. Wrong answers only.
Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only:
March 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only:
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
March 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Hawkeye #11: Pizza Is My Business, Matt Fraction (writer), David Aja and Matt Hollingsworth. Entirely from Pizza Dog's POV!
March 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Hawkeye #11: Pizza Is My Business, Matt Fraction (writer), David Aja and Matt Hollingsworth. Entirely from Pizza Dog's POV!
5 bullet points of what I accomplished last week:
•Came in with the milk
•Opened the bag with my right hand
•Held the bag out to you at a 45-degree angle so you could reach in without touching the paper
•Varied from the instructions to a small degree
•Repeated the entire process from the beginning
•Came in with the milk
•Opened the bag with my right hand
•Held the bag out to you at a 45-degree angle so you could reach in without touching the paper
•Varied from the instructions to a small degree
•Repeated the entire process from the beginning
February 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
5 bullet points of what I accomplished last week:
•Came in with the milk
•Opened the bag with my right hand
•Held the bag out to you at a 45-degree angle so you could reach in without touching the paper
•Varied from the instructions to a small degree
•Repeated the entire process from the beginning
•Came in with the milk
•Opened the bag with my right hand
•Held the bag out to you at a 45-degree angle so you could reach in without touching the paper
•Varied from the instructions to a small degree
•Repeated the entire process from the beginning
First blawg of 2025! I wrote about anti-aging "guru" Bryan Johnson and the philosophical concept of Open Individualism, as filtered through horror-comedy FRANKENHOOKER!
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The Unexpected Open Individualism of FRANKENHOOKER (1990)
I hate Bryan Johnson. The 47-year-old millionaire techbro is obsessed with reversing his age. This obsession is the focus of Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever. The newly-released N…
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January 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
First blawg of 2025! I wrote about anti-aging "guru" Bryan Johnson and the philosophical concept of Open Individualism, as filtered through horror-comedy FRANKENHOOKER!
bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...
bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...
Like most sensible people, the election was a bit of a blow to my, well, entire worldview. So like a completely normal, not-depressed person, I wrote about it through the lens of LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD!
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“It’s not a system. It’s a country.” Detoxifying Patriotism with LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD (2007)
I wrote about Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and patriotism back in 2018. The blog post did not go over well on social media. Actually, I originally wrote the piece back in 2012 for a now defunct site …
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November 22, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Like most sensible people, the election was a bit of a blow to my, well, entire worldview. So like a completely normal, not-depressed person, I wrote about it through the lens of LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD!
bartcave.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/i...
bartcave.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/i...
It's spooky season, and Friday is the 50th anniversary of the original, so I wrote about LEATHERFACE: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE III (1990)! I contemplate the movie's relationship with technology and how it seems to betray the message of the first two...
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“Technology is Our Friend”: Transhumanism in LEATHERFACE: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE III (1990)
The 50-year-old Texas Chainsaw Massacre series has always been about transformation. Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) evolved that theme even further into transhumanism. At the heart…
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October 9, 2024 at 11:49 AM
It's spooky season, and Friday is the 50th anniversary of the original, so I wrote about LEATHERFACE: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE III (1990)! I contemplate the movie's relationship with technology and how it seems to betray the message of the first two...
bartcave.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/t...
bartcave.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/t...
Rewatched TIMECOP (1994) recently and noticed it has a lot of Nazis in it. So I wrote about it!
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TIMECOP (1994) Has a White Supremacy Problem
Nazis and white supremacists probably aren't what you remember about Timecop (1994). A soft core love scene with Mia Sara, Jean-Claude Van Damme doing his patented splits, that cool time portal ripple...
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September 11, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Rewatched TIMECOP (1994) recently and noticed it has a lot of Nazis in it. So I wrote about it!
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bartcave.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/t...
BLAAAAAWWWWWGGGGGG
The influence of video games on ALIEN: ROMULUS reminded me of the philosopher Baudrillard's concept of "hyperreality." Don't know what that is?
Click the link below to find out!
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The influence of video games on ALIEN: ROMULUS reminded me of the philosopher Baudrillard's concept of "hyperreality." Don't know what that is?
Click the link below to find out!
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Video Games and Baudrillard’s Hyperreality in ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024)
Video games play a surprisingly important role in Alien: Romulus (2024), both in the diegesis and as a lens through which to view the movie. This focus on video games could be viewed as an expression ...
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August 22, 2024 at 11:17 AM
BLAAAAAWWWWWGGGGGG
The influence of video games on ALIEN: ROMULUS reminded me of the philosopher Baudrillard's concept of "hyperreality." Don't know what that is?
Click the link below to find out!
bartcave.wordpress.com/2024/08/22/v...
The influence of video games on ALIEN: ROMULUS reminded me of the philosopher Baudrillard's concept of "hyperreality." Don't know what that is?
Click the link below to find out!
bartcave.wordpress.com/2024/08/22/v...
What do Werner Herzog, the movie Hook, and Deadpool all have in common? You'll have to read my ranting blawg to find out!
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The Ecstatic Truth of “Beta Ray Bill: Argent Star” and DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE (2024)
I stumbled upon a new term during all the recent JD Vance couch-fucking hoopla: "Ecstatic truth." Filmmaker Werner Herzog coined this term some years ago and has discussed it many times. During a 2010...
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August 14, 2024 at 12:37 PM
What do Werner Herzog, the movie Hook, and Deadpool all have in common? You'll have to read my ranting blawg to find out!
bartcave.wordpress.com/2024/08/14/t...
bartcave.wordpress.com/2024/08/14/t...
Almost exactly a year until James Gunn's SUPERMAN, I decided to take a look back at his directorial debut. One line in SLITHER has always stood out to me — so I wrote about it!
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James Gunn and Damn Republicans: SLITHER (2006) as Southern Gothic
James Gunn is obsessed with hordes. From Scooby Doo (2002) to Peacemaker (2022), he repeatedly returns to mass possessions, monstrous mobs and groupthink. Perhaps he best explored this theme of resist...
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July 8, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Almost exactly a year until James Gunn's SUPERMAN, I decided to take a look back at his directorial debut. One line in SLITHER has always stood out to me — so I wrote about it!
bartcave.wordpress.com/2024/07/08/j...
bartcave.wordpress.com/2024/07/08/j...