Month: August 2020
Bill & Ted Face the Music Transports Gen X Back to Memorable Laughs
Nostalgia has powered the American box office for the better part of a decade with millennials and Gen Xers clamoring for remakes and reboots that call back to memories of their childhoods. For some moviegoers (including me, full…
Read More »Tesla and the Limitations of Ambition
The Bible says that no man can serve two masters and no one may know that better than creatives in the capitalist age. Breaking new ground can cost and acquiring the necessary capital to turn dreams into reality…
Read More »Sputnik Uses the Sci-Fi Classics Before It to Examine Human Emotion
Since Ridley Scott’s groundbreaking, legendary sci-film Alien was released in 1979, tales of alien life forms seeking unsuspecting human space explorers to use as living hosts have been ubiquitous in the genre to the point of becoming rote…
Read More »Made in Italy, Made Before
Grief can be a funny thing. Often times, those who carry it can appear normal on the outside, going about life as if nothing’s wrong. But just beneath the surface, the inability to move past trauma can have…
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