Animation has always been a big part of my life, from the cartoons I spent hours consuming on TV to the animated films I re-watched over and over again growing up. Even though 3D animation has largely replaced the 2D cartoons of my childhood, animated shows and movies are doing better than ever financially as …
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Revisiting “MythQuest”
I have always been interested in mythology. My parents would read me mythological stories when I was little, and many of the books I chose to read myself were either collections of mythological stories or influenced by world myths. When I was older, I discovered Joseph Campbell and other scholars, and actively studied stories from …
Revisiting “The Game of Life”
A couple of weeks ago, I was at a local used bookstore looking for Christmas gifts for extended family. I wandered into the video game section of the store and came across something from my past: “The Game of Life” for the original PlayStation. It was a game I hadn’t played in years but had …
Resident Evil: Transformation in the Pursuit of Power
Siudmak, Wojciech. Metamorphosis. The Resident Evil series is one of the most influential video game franchises of all time. The first title in the series, released in 1996 and simply called Resident Evil, broke ground as the first in a new genre of "survival horror" games. Players control characters who are thrust into dangerous scenarios …
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Super Cinema Series: Green Lantern (2011)
Well, we've finally reached the end of our series revisiting some of the movies that defined the superhero genre before the MCU juggernaut changed the landscape. Normally, we would save the best for last; that is not necessarily going to be the case here. Finishing up our roster of movies we will look at perhaps …
Super Cinema Series: The Green Hornet (2011)
While the new year may have gotten off to a rocky start, our next movie has actually been one of the most genuinely enjoyable entries in this series. When I began this series almost a year and a half ago, I felt I was pretty familiar with the "superhero movie format" that had come to …
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Super Cinema Series: Ghost Rider (2007) and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)
As we come to the end of 2020 and all eat a second helping of Hoppin’ John on New Year’s Day, let’s continue our foray into pre-Iron Man superhero movies with Marvel’s dives into demonology, Ghost Rider and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. As I’ve said before, I’ve never been a big comic book reader. …
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Super Cinema Series: Superman Returns (2006)
As another Halloween season comes to a close and I begin to pack away my skeletons and pumpkins until next year, we continue our superhero movie project with a bit of an outlier. Up until this point, we have stuck mostly to films featuring Marvel superheroes (with the exception of The Crow). But Marvel's eternal …
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Super Cinema Series: Daredevil (2003) and Electra (2005)
I've said before during this series that I'm generally more forgiving toward the flaws of comic book movies, mostly because I didn't grow up investing my time in comics or superheroes in general. Of course, I would watch the critically-acclaimed "Batman: The Animated Series" when it was on Cartoon Network after school, and who didn't …
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Super Cinema Series: Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
It certainly has been a while since the last time we visited a movie from before the MCU, but with everything going on with our global pandemic and cultural unrest in the US, I hope I can be forgiven for procrastinating a little. Hopefully taking some time to look at and poke some fun at …
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