Assassins Need a Better Union
Especially if — as posited in the new movie The Tournament, whose trailer is up above — they have to all kill each other in a random small town every seven years. It just seems like it would be bad for the industry overall to lose that much talent periodically. Still, The Tournament looks like incredibly goofy shoot-’em-up fun, which I’m always down with, and I’m eager to find out what the deal is with Robert Carlyle’s priest, because you know he’s not just a regular man of the cloth (there’s just no way). What do you guys think? (/Film)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.