Movie review
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Trying to Be Happy – Exploring the Issue of Humanness in “Swiss Army Man”
Human bodies are weird and gross. They are scary, and we are often ashamed of them. Our bodies can make us feel alone. However, our…
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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…
