By definition, the very notion of Santa Claus riding down from the toy workshop hidden in the frosty wasteland of the North Pole to deliver toys to all the good boys and girls of the world in a single nocturne… Read More ›
Movies
The History of Time Travel
Time is never ending, moving backward and forward only in our minds. As far as we know, the technology for time travel doesn’t exist. Yet any writer worth their salt who employs the trope knows that time travel will appear… Read More ›
Revisited: Disney’s HERCULES – Does it go the distance?
The House of Mouse is a juggernaut that is consuming all media one layer at a time. I take my son, who is 13 months old, to the mall to walk in the high heat of summer, and I pass… Read More ›
Does the World Need Another Spider-Man?
They’ve done something different with Spider-Man. They elevated it to art.
A Continuum of Tragedy: See You Yesterday
Netflix’s latest foray into the sci-fi time travel genre, See You Yesterday, takes on a difficult issue with class. It’s is about a young girl, CJ, played by Eden Duncan-Smith, and her best friend who travel back in time to… Read More ›