The 2012 acquisition of Star Wars by the Disney Corporation is primarily a dud, despite a return on investment of 12 billion dollars since the purchase. The backlash is from fans who are critical of Disney’s leadership in making poor-quality…
In Homer’s famous poem The Odyssey, the hero Odysseus traveling home to his wife Penelope after many years away fighting the Trojan War, is frequently distracted and delayed by the people and creatures he encounters. During this journey, Odysseus was…
Things have been pretty quiet at the box office this year. Leading it this week was the largely unremarked horror film Sinners. Coming in at number two was … Revenge of the Sith? No, your eyes do not deceive you….
For decades, James Bond was untouchable. He didn’t evolve. That’s because he didn’t have to. Bond wasn’t just a spy; he was a fantasy, a cultural anchor, a mirror reflecting what the West wanted to believe about itself. Bond showed…
It’s been a long time since we’ve had a real cult classic. I’m talking about the kind of film that flops at the box office, quietly builds an underground following, then years later becomes essential viewing. The Big Lebowski didn’t make a…
I am probably the only twenty-something in the United States who has never played the computer game Minecraft. A sandbox game that allows the player to build tools, buildings, and just about anything that comes to mind using in-world resources,…
It sounds like a ridiculous question to ask. After all, this is the guy from Billy Madison and Big Daddy. A class clown in oversized shorts, an overgrown child who made yelling and crude humor into a multi-decade empire. In…
Most war films try to help us understand war. Warfare does something else. It dares to admit that it may make no sense at all. Directed by Alex Garland and co-written with former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, whose memories form the bedrock…
As a movie and television critic who scans industry publications for the latest news, I was quite surprised last November to read that the Apple TV series Your Friends and Neighbors, starring Jon Hamm (Mad Men, The Morning Show), had…
