Bob Chipman, Author at The Escapist

Advice From a Fanboy: Superman Edition

So by now we’ve all heard that there’s going to be a new Superman movie, yes? Well, if you hadn’t, yeah, there’s going ...

By Bob ChipmanOctober 8, 2010

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Five Reasons You Should See The Social Network

As I’ve mentioned recently, movie theaters in 2010 haven’t been very hospitable to nerds, as one film after another built around premises and/or ...

By Bob ChipmanOctober 1, 2010

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MovieBob Goes to the Renaissance Faire

All that research for my contribution to last week’s Escapist-wide coverage of Dungeons & Dragons left me with an itch for swords and ...

By Bob ChipmanSeptember 24, 2010

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Stop Blowing My Mind!

Existence is conflict. In science, this is called survival of the fittest – and accepting it is supposed to be one of those ...

By Bob ChipmanSeptember 17, 2010

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Red Dead Revival?

I’ve always loved Westerns, or more colloquially “Cowboy Movies,” which supposedly makes me fairly unusual for a man of my generation. Westerns, we’re ...

By Bob ChipmanSeptember 10, 2010

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Machete vs. The Expendables

WARNING: The following article contains significant plot-spoilers for “Machete;” and what would be called plot-spoilers for The Expendables if The Expendables featured anything ...

By Bob ChipmanSeptember 3, 2010

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Marshall of the Legion

English writer/director Neil Marshall is a modern-day rarity: A director of horror/action genre movies who’s become a name in the field with original ...

By Bob ChipmanAugust 27, 2010

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Game Changer

Warning: The following piece contains significant SPOILERS for the film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Something unexpected happens during the penultimate climax of ...

By Bob ChipmanAugust 20, 2010

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The Movie Nerd Bible: Part II

From 1977 till today, nerd movies – i.e., films of onetime ghettoized genres such as horror, science fiction and fantasy – have dominated ...

By Bob ChipmanAugust 13, 2010

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The Movie Nerd Bible: Part I

They say my generation is old before our time. That information moves so fast now that we’ve developed premature variations on the sort ...

By Bob ChipmanAugust 6, 2010

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Film These Heroes!

Aside from being the year when the world will be laid to waste by the wrath of Itzcoliuhqui, Aztec God of Darkness (and ...

By Bob ChipmanJuly 30, 2010

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Why Movies Suck Now Part Two: The Reality

Last week was the fun part, when I got to tear down a lot of weak excuses I’m sick of hearing about the ...

By Bob ChipmanJuly 23, 2010

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