Stop Ruining Christmas
Because part of becoming a modern adult is learning to hate everything that might have made you happy as a kid.
Category: TV and Movies
Men of Virtue: Or, Why Is It So Hard To Write A Good Guy?
Superman, Gary Cooper, Straw Man Fallacy, and Hollywood’s 50-some-odd years of embracing the anti-hero to a ridiculous extreme.
Leave Baby Yoda Alone!
Imposing a monoculture on a diverse ecosystem? That’s the way the Empire thinks.
Classic Horror Films: The Best From The Original Universal Monsters
I figured I’d rank my top ten favorite classic horror films to watch in the coming weeks of this year’s fright season.
Tenshot: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
The final four episodes — which rival anything this side of The Empire Strikes Back — puts an exclamation point on one thing: this is not a series about Anakin Skywalker. The real protagonist of the series is Ahsoka Tano, his padawan.
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Recommended)
Avatar: The Last Airbender was good enough I’ll recommend it anybody. It’s got action, romance, character development, and non-stupid characters
Tenshot: Tales From The Loop
Tales From The Loop is mostly an anthology of interconnected stories involving a mysterious lab that is also the major employer in a relatively small town.
The Critic Problem
I call the way I approach film as “The Meh Plateau.” Most movies do not suck, nor are most movies amazing.
Ranking the Batmen
Who’s the best Batman of them all? I have decided to try to tackle the question of “Which actor is the best Batman?”
Sunday Morning! “Vagabond” by Agnès Varda
This week, I finally got up the nerve to write about Agnès Varda’s masterpiece “Vagabond,” a sort of reverse murder mystery: instead of wondering who killed the main character and why, we wonder who failed to save her and how.
A Binge Of Cinematic History Chapter 2: The Birth Of Hollywood
Most Hollywood histories begin in the 1920s. However, the story of Hollywood and its coming domination in cinema truly begins in 1914
A Binge Of Cinematic History Chapter 1: The Dawn Of Cinema
“The Dawn Of Cinema” or the pre-Hollywood years. And amazingly at over a hundred years old there’s some short films from this time that have stuck with us.
“Hamilton” and the False Choice
The play “Hamilton” offers us a false choice between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. But the two are morally equivalent.
Prologue To A Binge Of Cinematic History
That first ingredient for the recipe of having cinema come to existence happened could be argued to have taken place in several moments of mankind’s past.
The Layered Genius of Miyazaki, Part II
The bonds between Miyazaki’s characters are the sinews binding his movies together, bringing all this wondrous art, imagery, and themes into one coherent whole.
Remembering Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner was one of the funniest men in show business for almost 70 years, which hardly seems possible.
The Layered Genius of Miyazaki, Part I
You don’t have to be an animator to draw inspiration from Miyazaki’s films. Nor do you need to be an expert on anime. All that’s required is an appreciation for great film-making.
The Shark Still Works: 45 Years of Jaws
I’m going to tell you about the first time I showed “Jaws” to my college roommate.
Saying Something Important: The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot
set aside a couple hours in the screaming and the chaos that is surrounding us now and watch The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot
Where Are They Now? Dora The Explorer
Whenever people wonder whatever happened to that beloved star of yesteryear, Bryan O’Nolan investigates.
