10 Disney Movies That Tried to Destroy America
From 2011, Landon Palmer jokingly considers the corrupt themes of Disney animated classics. Read More
June 28, 2011
Culture Warrior
Culture Warrior: Using Movies To Study Middle East History and Politics
I often find that, as a devotee to cinema and little else, I understand history through cinema. After all, cinema… Read More
June 21, 2011
Culture Warrior: ‘Midnight in Paris’ and ‘The Tree of Life’ Are (Sort of) the Same Damn Movie
You’d be hard-pressed to find two filmmakers who are more wildly different than Woody Allen and Terrence Malick. One is… Read More
June 14, 2011
Culture Warrior: Politics of Identity in ‘X-Men: First Class’
Themes of identity, difference, stigma, and othering are explicitly or implicitly present in much of the X-Men mythology, whether expressed… Read More
June 7, 2011
Culture Warrior: Understanding the Past Through Summer Blockbusters
Movies have a strange relationship with history, that’s for certain. On the one hand, they have the ability to bring… Read More
May 31, 2011
Culture Warrior: Comedy Stardom and the Problems of ‘The Office’
Episodes and seasons and weeks after its inspiration and its humor have peaked, I still continue to watch new episodes… Read More
May 24, 2011
Culture Warrior: 6 Movies That Were Booed at Cannes
Yesterday the Twittersphere (a place where topics are only discussed in rational proportions) was abuzz with the news that Terrence… Read More
May 17, 2011
Culture Warrior: Speculating Bin Laden’s Cinematic Legacy
There will inevitably be a movie about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden - this much is certain. Recent… Read More
May 10, 2011
Culture Warrior: “Critics are as Critics do”
I am going to attempt something that many have tried and failed to communicate to people for the purpose of… Read More
May 3, 2011