“This is war, Peacock”: Clue and Cumulative Transferative Psychosis
“Clue” is a great movie, especially if you look really, really, really deeply.
Category: Essays
The Two Christs of Detroit: “Robocop” and “The Crow”
Detroit is a city with resurrection on its mind.
The Existential Horror of “Godzilla: King of the Monsters”
The scariest lesson in Godzilla is that the Earth doesn’t care about you. Unless you get in its way.
“We could be the Three Amigos for real”: Collisions of Fantasy and Reality in Cinema
Movies that blur the lines we take for granted.
The Case For Attack of The Clones’ Greatness
A prequel does its duty, but in unexpected and complicated ways.
The Most Offensive Line of Dialogue in Movie History
Being offensive is more than just using bad language. It’s also about the way you use it.
The Three New Yorks
The Big Apple features prominently in thousands of films. But it’s not the same city every time.
Movies to Watch With Your Mom: “The Matrix”
A glossy badass martial arts extravaganza provides surprisingly common ground between the generations and the sexes.
The Past, Present, and Future: “Black Panther” and Afrofuturism
Black Panther is in Flickchart’s global top 1000, a Movie to See Before You Die. Do you know its relationship to “Afrofuturism”?
The Nanny Diaries vs The Devil Wears Prada: Studies in the Early 21st-Century Quarter-Life Crisis
Two intelligent young women leave college with a particular set of ideas about the world, only to have the world laugh in their faces. Being in your twenties sucks.
