Ant-Man: Good Ants, Bad Father Figures
Ant-Man is a film punctuated by: spectacle, gobs of CG ants, slap-stick comedy and quasi-racist caricatures. With all of these elements you might think you’re watching […]
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The Walking Dead Third Season, Episode Sixteen “Welcome to the Tombs”
The season finale of The Walking Dead opens with a close-up of The Governor’s one good eye as he demonstrates to Milton how he came […]
The Value of Poverty: Charles Chaplin’s Modern Times and Sturges’ Sullivan’s Travels
This article explores the representation of poverty in Charles Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936) and Preston Sturges’ Sullivan’s Travels (1941).
The Walking Dead Third Season Episode Fifteen, “This Sorrowful Life”
I know that this is supposed to be a show about the dead rising and society as we know it being irreversibly broken, but god […]
The Walking Dead Third Season Episode Twelve “Clear”
Cormac McCarthy, author of Blood Meridian, No Country For Old Men, The Crossing, and many other celebrated books, often tells stories of desperate men living […]
The Walking Dead Third Season, Episode Eleven “I Ain’t a Judas”
The last thing Rick seems to need right now is another member of the group doubting his ability to lead. For Carl to be that […]
The Walking Dead Third Season, Episode Ten “Home”
Well, this is more like it. When The Walking Dead came back from its mid season hiatus, I don’t think anyone was gushing or raving […]
The Walking Dead Third Season, Episode Nine “The Suicide King”
By the end of the mid-season opener, “The Suicide King,” Rick and the gang have returned to the prison, their mission accomplished, knowing now that […]
The Walking Dead Third Season, Episode Eight “Made to Suffer”
In this, the mid-season finale of The Walking Dead, the Governor is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be completely out of his […]
The Walking Dead Third Season Episode Seven, “When The Dead Come Knocking”
TV shows and movies about survival are always popular, and The Walking Dead, at heart, belongs in this category. If the show were just about […]