Culture Warrior

Culture Warrior: A New Trend of Technologically-Enabled Heroes

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Source Code…and, for that matter, Avatar.Recently in Hollywood, the physiological capabilities of our heroic protagonists… Read More

Culture Warrior: ‘The Help’ Can’t Help Itself

The Help has started a conversation that’s stretched far beyond the 137-minute confines of the film itself. And in its… Read More

Culture Warrior: Directors Making Commercials

We often don’t think of commercials as having authorship, at least not in the same way we think of movies.… Read More

Culture Warrior: Rise of the Planet of the Allegories

Warning: this editorial contains spoilers for Rise of the Planet of the Apes (and, for that matter, the original Planet… Read More

Culture Warrior: The Manifest Destiny of The Western’s Expansion in 2011

A genre nearly as old as filmmaking itself, the western thrived throughout the years of the studio system but has… Read More

Culture Warrior: Beautiful People Having Sex

The cinematic doppelganger effect seems to happen on a cyclical basis. Every few years, a pair of movies are released… Read More

Culture Warrior: The Past and (Possible) Future of Harry Potter

That the final Harry Potter film became the biggest opening weekend of all time seemed only natural and inevitable. Something… Read More

Culture Warrior: A Magnolia By Any Other Name

Last week, as I watched Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber, I noticed that the trailers on the rental Blu-Ray were all of… Read More

Culture Warrior: Forget the Box Office

I’ll be the first to admit that the title of this post is a tad hyperbolic. The box office should… Read More