Every year I kind of forget to prepare myself for the Oscar Drama genre, a subgenre of the Drama made specifically in an effort to win awards. Or maybe I just harbor some secret hope that they’ll go away one day. They won’t. I know they won’t. It’s okay. They’re not all bad. Carol (2015)…
Growing up in the City of Brotherly Love, Rocky is kind of an inescapable cultural force. Every souvenir shop in the city is guaranteed to have a section of tchotchkes baring the Italian Stallion’s image alongside the Liberty Bell and Ben Franklin. Go to the the Philadelphia Museum of Art literally any day of the year,…
I have been having sort of a bad week. Bad weeks come and go as all things do, so after a while one simply has to take them in stride and attempt to locate the sparse rays of sunshine. Wednesday night, at 8:00 in the post meridiem, BBC4 decided, apparently for no particular reason, to…
If it has not been taken off of YouTube again for copyright reasons, the above video is, as you can see, not from the actual Yu-Gi-Oh! television show. Instead, it is from a fan-made creation known as Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series. The Abridged Series was brought to the internet by Martin Billany, who goes by…
This is, what, the third or fourth Steve Jobs movie to come out since his death? Obviously, with a combo-pack of Danny Boyle, Aaron Sorkin, and its all-star cast, it’s the only one with any momentum or potential, and has all the ingredients needed to set itself up as a major awards contender, because, as…
In 1979, the Bond franchise was being taken to literal– if not exactly figurative or critical– new heights with the release of the space-faring Moonraker. While the franchise was in the midst of jumping the shark, the Bond film essence of thrilling and elegant escapist adventure was ably captured in an animated feature from Japan. An entry in…
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, and probably his second best tragedy (after King Lear, obviously). It is also one of his most difficult plays. Make no mistake, it is a work of singular genius, but its brilliance teeters on a delicate support. It takes very little in a staging or adaptation to mess…
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