Film
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THE FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S FILMS SHOULD NOT BE “FOR THE FANS”
The Five Nights at Freddy’s (FNAF) films were major cultural phenomena, with both productions attracting large audiences to witness the popular horror video games come…
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Kimi no Na wa
Have you ever felt like you’ve lost something and won’t ever be able to find it? That’s the feeling I had when I watched Kimi…
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Mulan Takes The Bechdel Test
Did I love Disney princesses? Of course I did. We all did. Don’t even try to lie. Everyone is an 8-year-old at some point in…
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Harry Potter and the Crisis of Sorting
It’s safe to say that Harry Potter blazed many paths. It brought life to a dying publishing industry, it launched the young adult and children’s…
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Crimson peak: A Gothic Romance
Ghosts are real, that much I know. Well, okay, I don’t know, but Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) can certainly tell you a thing or two…
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What does Mars tell us in The Martian?
This post contains spoilers. Imagine this: you are stranded on a distant planet without water, food, internet access, your smartphone, or even other humans. What…
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All Hail the Gods of Cinema: A Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron
I want to be a superhero—really badly. When someone asks me, “if you were a superhero…”, I respond with a full run-through of my back-story,…
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Getting Dragons on Screen: The Cycle of Readers and Viewers
At its birth, the literary elite refused to accept fantasy as a legitimate genre. Fire-barfing dragons, scantily clad elves, and steel-swinging hunks could not possibly…
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Truth, Justice and the Kryptonian Way
“If Superman doesn’t kill, why would Zac k Snyder allow him to snap the neck of General Zod at the end of his film Man of…
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