Trailers are tasked with the job of selling, not an item or product, but a story. They must condense a film into its most marketable parts and sell that experience, with the result that people will go to a movie theater and spend money to get the story they were […]
Monthly Archives: January 2020
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I want to start this off by saying that I love anime. It contains some of my favorite tv shows and movies, and I deeply appreciate the kinds of stories that it allows animation to delve into. However, I also reserve the right to be critical of the media I […]
The first time I saw The Shining, I only made it about halfway through. The specific moment where I checked out was when Sally discovers Jacks writing consists solely of, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” I was in middle school I think, and up until […]
I simply adore the film Spirited Away. It has been one of my favorite movies for years, and for most of that time it served mostly as artistic inspiration. It was the first fantasy I encountered that wasn’t based in some sort of Western-inspired mythology, and it truly opened my […]
