From the first line of the Genesis 1:3 to the radioactive arachnid bite that turned scrawny Peter Parker into a spider-man to the titular face-hugging creature in Alien, the greatest stories ever told all owe their beginnings to a single metaphorical light-bulb going off in someone’s head. (more…)
It seems like every year the ticket prices and movie budgets go up a little more, but do the movies get better? Unwinnable’s picks for the ten best movies of 2012 were as diverse as we are, from documentaries to Bollywood musicals, indie dramas to franchise sequels. But when all was said and voted, these ten came out as the clear winners, with Marvel’s The Avengers as the far and away winner. Do you agree? Disagree? What does your top ten list look like? (more…)
2012 was a great year for comics. Keeping this list to ten was impossible due to ties, so we went for twelve. However, even at twelve, this list feels too small to encompass all the great comics that were published this year. Nevertheless, there was one comic that pretty much every comic reading member of Team Unwinnable agreed on: Hawkeye. (more…)
Every year, we struggle to compile the lists of the things we loved over the course of the year. There are so many of them, the movies, the games, the stories. We debate and vote and hem and haw for the entire month of December, trying to distill them perfectly.
The same can not be said of the things we hate. The worst of 2012 – that’s easy to see… (more…)
If you are reading this, then the Mayan Apocalypse hasn’t actually gone down as scheduled. (more…)
“If they can make it there, they’ll make it anywhere.”
In this paraphrased line from “New York, New York,” Frank Sinatra summed up the role the Big Apple has played for superheroes across comic book history. (Sinatra was possibly himself a mutant with those freakish blue eyes.) After all, the vast majority of tall buildings a hero might leap in a single bound are located in New York City – or at least based on a real-life counterpart. (more…)
The blood had barely dried inside the Century Aurora 16 movie theater when many pundits were already jumping to conclusions in a single bound. (more…)
