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Bart Bishop

@bartlbishop.bsky.social

Lover of comics and movies. Blog on occasion. He/Him. https://bartcave.wordpress.com/

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Bart Bishop@bartlbishop.bsky.social · 4d ago

Apparently there's a male loneliness crisis? The only way to solve this is to listen to more music and read more books by women! I wrote about Phoebe Bridgers, Gabrielle Zevin, video games, and men, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. bartcave.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/p...

Phoebe Bridgers’ “Lost Boys,” Gabrielle Zevin’s TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW, Video Games, and the Crisis of American Masculinity

America has a crisis of masculinity. Apparently. Headlines and talking heads say young men, in particular, are struggling. They don’t know how to talk to women like human beings. They’r…

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Bart Bishop@bartlbishop.bsky.social · 3mo ago

James Cameron is obsessed with nukes. But for a few years in the '90s he seemed to let his fear go. That's when he wrote his take on Spider-Man! So I wrote about him! Read me writing about him! bartcave.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/t...

The Radiationless Spider-Man or How James Cameron Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

James Cameron notoriously called Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2023) a “moral cop-out” last year. He very soon plans to rebut Nolan’s tale of the creation of the Atomic B…

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Bart Bishop@bartlbishop.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Want to read about Russian religious icon paintings and their influence on the split-screen film technique — in Undisputed II?! I wrote all about it, so read blawg. bartcave.wordpress.com/2026/02/23/r...

Religious Art and Split-Screens in UNDISPUTED II: LAST MAN STANDING (2006)

Russian icons are a unique artform that developed in Eastern Orthodox Christianity over a millennia ago. These icons are considered a fundamental facet of religious practices and cultural tradition…

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Bart Bishop@bartlbishop.bsky.social · 7mo ago

BLAWG! I wrote about recent horrible events in Minneapolis through the lens of a pretty great movie that's all about what you saw and what you think you saw. bartcave.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/s...

Seeing isn’t Believing in CUTTER’S WAY (1981)

“Who ya gonna believe? Me or your own eyes?”-Chico Marx, Duck Soup (1933) The horrific events in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026 reveal that reality is a matter of willpower. Everyone ha…

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Bart Bishop@bartlbishop.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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...

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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Bart Bishop@bartlbishop.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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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Bart Bishop@bartlbishop.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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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Bart Bishop@bartlbishop.bsky.social · last yr.

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. bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/q...

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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Bart Bishop@bartlbishop.bsky.social · last yr.

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! bartcave.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/d...

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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Bart Bishop@bartlbishop.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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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