Movies For The Sake Of Friendship

Evening comes, and a friend says, “We should go see a movie.” You look at the list of films. Nothing looks interesting or pallatable to your tastes. What do you do?  Do you stand for your artistic and aesthetic standards?  Or do you enter the darkness of the theater, hoping the film is better than…

Star Trek: Into Sherlock

It’s time to pull out our Sherlock skills and decipher the clues that master of movie secrets J.J. Abrams has left for us in the latest trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness What we know from press coverage and previous trailers is that Bendict Cumberbatch is playing a character named John Harrison, who may be…

The Marvelization of Star Wars

Just as the Greeks were folded into the growing Roman Empire, Lucasfilm has recently been folded into Disney’s empire. As this new owner of an entire galactic universe, Disney has announced that they are Marvelizing Star Wars. In other words, they are using the uber-lucrative and successful business model set up for the Marvel universe:…