Shaun of the Fuzz’s End: The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy and the Hero’s Journey
Mapping “Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz,” and “The World’s End” to the Hero’s Journey Monomyth
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False Consciousness in Sunnydale: Karl Marx, Adam Smith, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Why don’t Buffy and the Watcher’s Council just tell the world about vampires?
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The Long Con
Are con movies the only films that execute their plot on the audience as well as the characters?
One of these things is not like the other: We’re The Millers and Virginity
The poster for We’re the Millers tells us something interesting and weird about the way Hollywood conceives of male virginity.
The Desolation of Statistics: Book Length vs. Movie Length, Part 2
Does the density of a movie adaptation of a book have any effect on its quality? Is there an ideal length of a movie based on the book’s word count?
The Hole in the Middle: Mad Men and Breaking Bad
Mad Men and Breaking Bad, the most critically acclaimed dramas on AMC, are two shows about the same thing: the failure of the American Dream to satisfy.
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EnderThinking It: Marketing, Morality and Trailer #2
What does the marketing campaign for “Ender’s Game” tell us about how the movie will tackle the central moral dilemma of the story? And what’s with the “Starship Trooper”-esque commercials?
An Unexpected Journey: Book Length vs. Movie Length in Adapted Franchises
We crunched the numbers on novel length vs. movie length to see who’s guilty of “Hobbiting” a single book into multiple movies.
Breaking Bad: Albuquerque City
Heading into the last half-season of Breaking Bad, we present a song about Heisenberg by way of The Boss. (BREAKING BAD SPOILERS)
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Hyrule Castle and Environs: The Legend of Zelda through the Joycean Lens
Is there a real Legend of Zelda continuity? Does it matter?