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 I'll try not to emotionally wound my fellow millennials by reminding everyone that it's been over 40 years since the original 1984 film, The Toxic Avenger, hit the screens. Lloyd Kaufman's strange and unabashed anti-superhero film hit right in the heart of the 1980s, playing with the subversion of heroes and slasher conventions a little before Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or Howard the Duck. Initially compared more to its slasher predecessors, the film became a hit with midnight moviegoers, spawning a slew of sequels and, now, a shiny new remake.  Borrowing more from later subversive superhero films and fewer from earlier horror favorites, this new Toxic Avenger film retains all the midnight movie charm, albeit with less impact. Peter Dinklage stars in this film as Winston Gooze, a down-on-his-luck janitor struggling to raise his stepson, keep his job, and manage a potentially fatal diagnosis. After being fired by his company's eccentric CEO (Kevin Bacon), Goo...