Honest Movie Advertising
The 2011 summer movie season is poised to give audiences big doses of all the usual fare: early Oscar hopefulness, R-rated laughs, and tentpole excess. What if film advertisers told the truth? What...
View ArticleTwo More Archetypes of Modern Cinema
A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis noted that though “[the archetypes] populating contemporary movies don’t line up with reality, … they offer clues about what the [people] of our dreams look like, or at...
View ArticleMovie Review: Man of Steel
There few movies that have been as anticipated as Warner Brothers’ reboot of the Superman movie franchise. A lot is riding on “Man of Steel,” especially after the somewhat disappointing 2006 “Superman...
View ArticleThe Lego Movie vs The Matrix
Did you see The Lego Movie and have a lingering feeling that The Lego Movie was basically The Matrix with animated plastic blocks and more jokes? Let’s do a quick comparison of the major similarities....
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