Symbols and Allegory in Blade Runner 2049
Seth Williams Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner 2049 features quite a bit of symbolic and allegoric imagery. In this examination of a single, isolated scene, one can grasp the despair and desolation […]
“You Can’t Stop” Andy Mineo
Leonard Holmes What is it like to live your life with doubts and fears constantly surrounding you? Rapper Andy Mineo brings this struggle to life in the music video to […]
Justice League for Earth
Shawndre’ Young When a world-ending threat arrives on Earth’s doorstep, only a group of superheroes stand a chance of saving the planet. Can the combined powers of Batman, Wonder Woman, […]
Impact of Fear and Loss in IT
Dallas Collins What impact does fear and loss have on a child? Stephen King’s It, in both its film adaptations, seeks to answer this kind of question. With the nefarious Pennywise the […]
Visions and Commentary from The Illusionist
Nathaniel Keay Couched in the guise of a magician drama, 2006’s The Illusionist serves as a commentary on many modern social issues. When a magician’s love is torn from him by a […]
Tim Burton in Wonderland
Dallas Collins With Alice in Wonderland’s definitive style being whimsical and odd, was Tim Burton the correct choice to bring the story back to the big screen? While Burton is […]
Where in the Kingdom of Heaven?
Seth Williams Editing is an integral part of every film, and can either make or break it. Ridley Scott’s film Kingdom of Heaven is a perfect, if unfortunate, example of this principle. […]
The Jungle Book and the Search for Self
Dallas Collins What defines a person? Orphaned at a young age and literally raised by wolves, young Mowgli is forced to ask that question when he discovers that he does […]
True Grit and the Search for Justice
Dallas Grant As a cowboy, ranger, and young woman bind together in an unlikely crew, they must discover what it takes to survive as a team and bring down their […]
Word of the Day: Cacophony
Paul Schleifer According to www.dictionary.com, cacophony means “harsh discordance of sound; dissonance; a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds.” The etymology, according to www.etymonline.com, is actually kind of fun: “1650s, […]
Word of the Day: Enervate
Paul Schleifer Enervate is one of those words that means the opposite of what you might think it means. It sounds something like energize, right? So you might think it […]
America’s Reading Dilemma—From Prologue to Epilogue
Katherine Wiggins Most of us would not be surprised to hear that our generation does less reading for enjoyment than our parents’ and grandparents’ generations did. Most of us would […]