Category: Editors
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Samuel Johnson: Foundations of Lexicography
There is no argument that Samuel Johnson had on society due to his work creating the first influential dictionary for the English language. His dictionary is one of the most […]
Word of the Day: Supercilious
Today’s word of the day, thanks to dictionary.com, is supercilious, an adjective that means “haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.” According to www.etymonline.com, the word […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Word of the Day: Blarney
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of the website wordgenius.com, is blarney. The noun means, according to the website, “Talk that aims to charm, pleasantly flatter, or persuade” or “Amusing […]
Word of the Day: Garboil
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the Oxford English Dictionary, is garboil. I should warn you up front that www.dictionary.com labels the word, which is a noun meaning “confusion,” […]
Word of the Day: Finagle
Today’s word of the day, thanks to www.dictionary.com, is finagle. It’s a verb meaning “to get or achieve (something) by guile, trickery, or manipulation.” According to www.etymonline.com, the verb means […]