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I Robot

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What does it mean to be human?

Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner poses several questions which it is not necessarily easy to answer. The most important of these is what the film is about. While Blade Runner is […]

November 17, 2020February 24, 2021 David Stephens Media Studies

I Robot

I Robot is a film which, while it is no way as sophisticated, or frankly, as interesting as Blade Runner still offers up questions and points of conversation regarding what […]

November 17, 2020February 24, 2021 David Stephens Media Studies

What Makes Us Humans: A Story of an Android

What makes us humans? This question popped up in my mind as I was watching A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg. The movie addresses this issue by introducing the relationship […]

November 16, 2020February 24, 2021 David Stephens Media Studies

What does V represent?

V for VendettaOne of the most ambiguous and contradictive film experiences was granted to be by V for Vendetta. This comic book-based movie showed something that made me call it […]

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 David Stephens Editors

Morality in 3:10 to Yuma

The film, 3:10 to Yuma, is an exceptional work of art of the 1950s, entertaining and engaging in equal measure. The film’s exceptional camera angles and shots reveal an excellent […]

October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 David Stephens Editors

A Journey Into Our Future

The film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” directed by Stanley Kubrick, impressed me with the story and visual effects that were unusual because the movie was produced in 1968. The combination […]

October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 David Stephens Editors

Modern connections to "The Princess Bride"

The Princess Bride, a 1987 fantasy film directed by Rob Reiner, is well known by many, as it elicits a wide variety of reactions, some of which are negative. The […]

October 6, 2020October 6, 2020 David Stephens Editors

Are Novellas the best source material for adaptations?

It seems like the shorter the source material is, the better adaptations are. “The Maltese Falcon” was a great novella, and for all intents and purposes was a very good […]

September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 David Stephens Editors

A Movie that was better than the source material? But it still sucked!

It Had To Be Murder The short story It Had To Be Murder was a short story published in Dime Detective magazine. You’re probably thinking “a dime? that’s cheap!” You […]

September 7, 2020September 7, 2020 David Stephens Editors

What makes The Maltese Falcon a "Classic"?

The Maltese Falcon. A detective story from 1931 written by Dashiell Hammett. The book is widely regarded as a classic among detective fiction, and the third film adaptation of the […]

August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 David Stephens Editors

Words That Work

It’s not what you say, its what people hear!             Frank Luntz built a career on figuring out how to use words to evoke certain emotions and reactions out of […]

March 30, 2019May 14, 2019 David Stephens Editors

King Alfred’s fight to save English.

            In Melvin Bragg’s ‘The Adventure of English’ we see a lot of different accounts of the trials and tribulations of the English language as well as a number of […]

February 25, 2019February 25, 2019 David Stephens Editors

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