Don’t Look Up (2021, Adam McKay) has gotten a lot of buzz in recent days and for good reason, it is that rare fiction film that actually addresses climate change…
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A Brief Thought on Sofia Coppola To my mind, Sofia Coppola is one of the most underrated contemporary filmmakers creating films today. Excepting the highly lauded Lost in Translation, my…
To my mind, the science fiction genre is just simply the most important of all genres because it speaks to the human condition in the deepest way possible and in…
(I posted this post a few years ago; I thought I would revive it for the Christmas season.) Every Christmas, we get the token churning out of Frank Capra’s classic…
(I posted this post on my favorite Christmas films a couple of years ago; I thought I would revive it for the Christmas season. I had hoped to add a…
NOTE: First, this essay is an expansion of a blog post I wrote on Snowpiercer. Second, as I say, this isn’t a blog post but rather one of my academic…
NOTE: This isn’t a blog post but rather one of my academic essays. I hadn’t intended to post any of my academic essays on my blog (this is the second…
I was asked to write an article for the online publication Impakter. I thought I would link to it here. Impakter has decided to break the article into two parts….
(Note: Make sure you see the fully restored version of Metropolis; there are still horribly truncated versions out there, some of which are of such poor quality and so shortened…
To my surprise, the somewhat notorious Disney film Song of the South (1946, Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson) is actually available for screening. I had heard that Disney would not release…