Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 My original working title for this article was “Second Breakfast: Brush Up Your Shakespeare 9: The Hollow Crown, Part 2: Henry IV, Part 1”, but I decided against it. The Hollow Crown: Henry IV, Part 1 (2012) The…
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 Terry Pratchett, or I should say Sir Terry Pratchett, in his book Sourcery, outlines a wonderful conceptualization of inspiration. He imagines particles of inspiration rocketing through the multiverse, just waiting to strike some poor, unsuspecting brain. Sometimes they hit the…
25 years ago last week Tim Burton’s Batman was released in theaters across the U.S., forever shaping the way that that the American movie-going public thought about action movies and Batman, and really, it would probably be better if we all just left it at that. In honor of this momentous quarter century landmark,…
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 8 So, this might end up being a bit of a summer of Shakespeare, but you’re all okay with that, right? As I may have mentioned, I recently graduated college. I guess I did pretty well, but I made two fatal errors: I studied English and Film. Crap,…
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 7, Part 8 Ah, summer. It’s a time of blockbusters, but also just a crazy number of filler articles. Frankly, there aren’t that many blockbusters I want to see this summer, and even fewer that I’ll actually get to review. Instead, I’m turning my attention towards my beloved burgeoning Shakespeare…
Every time I went to the movies in the last six months, I saw a trailer for Edge of Tomorrow. I did not hate that trailer the first time I saw it, or even the second time, but I learned. Granted, it makes a certain amount of sense to see a trailer for a sci-fi/fantasy…
Indie movies are a blessing and a curse. Blessing: filmmakers get artistic freedom without the constraints of production companies and big budgets, which allows someone with real vision to explore that vision and not the vision of whoever controls the money. Curse: sometimes that vision isn’t worth exploring in the first place, and the freedom…
Rooster Illusion 