Movie review
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Doing What’s Right: A Review of Captain America – Civil War
“No. You move.” Captain America: Civil War needed to be a lot of things. As the introduction of both Black Panther and a new Spider-Man…
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Broadening Cultural Horizons in Animation
Only recently has the movie industry begun to move away from making yet another adaptation of Shakespeare or a classical European fairytale such as “Cinderella”.…
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A Movie for the Child in All of Us: A Review of The Little Prince
The modern pressures of having a career and being on your feet, working 24/7, are issues that have been talked about for several decades. With the…
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“You Have Disturbed the Dirt!” Archaeological Issues in Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire
It’s unlikely that anyone would immediately think of Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire when asked to come up with an archaeology-related media piece. This science…
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Hypermasculinity in the Jedi Order, or Why the Prequels Don’t Actually Suck All That Much
I’d like to preface this by saying that a large majority of this analysis is just my interpretation. I frankly doubt that George…
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More than Dinosaurs: The Humans of Jurassic World
This post contains spoilers. Eager as ever, I arrived at the theater for Jurassic World just in time and sat through the previews, which is…
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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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Big Hero 6 is Missing some Big Ideas
I would be lying if I said I didn’t come out of Big Hero 6 grinning like a fool. I wanted a cute, fun watch and…
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The SPECtacular Irish Mythology and Imagery of The Secret of Kells
There are about a million reasons to watch the 2009 animated film The Secret of Kells. It has all of the things a good Irish…
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The Infinite Mind
“A man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.” – Oliver Wendall Holmes Sr. (Autocrat of…
The Spectatorial 