The magic of maps

A good, old-fashioned map can add a whole lot of character to a place. Sure, the colorful country-accurate map of the Earth on a globe is an impressive sight especially fully animated online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcJzi2GvNWc But that view of the planet is a bit too modernist and clinical for my tastes. I'm more of a fan …

Fantastical Creatures

/me hopes that title is different enough to avoid any sort of legal action from Warner Bros. or J.K. Rowling With Dad at work and Mom + Aly off in Disneyland where the youngin' was marching in a parade (which would be a much more exciting story if it was mine to tell), I had …

The fatal flaw in Crimes of Grindelwald

With Screen Actors Guild and Visual Effects Society voting for academy awards approaching, my family has been spending the last few days watching a lot of movie screeners we've been accruing. Hence my (not so) little review of Aquaman last night and my intent to do some more 2018 movie discussions this weekend. Today we …

Blog Analytics

I'm sure it seems a bit narcissistic and self-serving to dedicate a whole post to my own blog's analytics out of nowhere. Especially considering the last time I did this kind of thing when I hit 100 Twitter followers over the summer, I didn't have 100 for that much longer. By now I have some …

Impossible to Miss

There were many reasons why DC's 2017 cinematic film Justice League was a critical flop. Amongst them was the fact that some of the CGI was kind of wonky. The fight scenes, particularly during the climactic fight against a dark red backdrop, were mostly hit-or-miss. However, arguably the most disastrously well-known CGI mishap in the …

Representing History through Film

Somehow the historical side of my blog for my Honors World Civilizations course has almost become more of a platform for me to talk about films.  In the first two posts I did (Post 1 and 2), I talked about Chantal Akerman's documentaries in various degrees around the times that I watched them. So, I figure why not take this last …