Moving Picture Institute Advances Liberty
Adam Guillette of the Moving Picture Institute (which helped support the stunning short film against egalitarianism, 2081) attended the Free Minds Film Festival in Colorado Springs earlier in the...
View ArticleGo See Dark Knight Rises
Christopher Nolan’s latest film, Dark Knight Rises, is extraordinary, showing that a “comic book” movie is capable of intellectual and adult themes as well as stunning action sequences. These are real...
View ArticleSee Guardians of the Galaxy
How could a movie featuring a talking raccoon, a walking tree, a green lady, a overly-literal hulk, and a guy named “Starlord” be any good? The latest Marvel outing makes such a film work with...
View ArticleNicole Perlman’s Marvel-ous Adventure in Writing Guardians of the Galaxy
Boulderite Nicole Perlman has exactly one credit to her name at IMDB, but it’s for co-writing Guardians of the Galaxy, a film that made $94 million its first weekend. Not surprisingly, she how has an...
View ArticleThat’s Captain China to You
A Chinese film reviewer for Douban.com wrote of Captain America: The Winter Soldier that the hero’s enemy “is the very country he loves and protects. To love one’s country isn’t the same as loving...
View ArticleThree Sci-Fi Reviews: Edge, Martian, and Trek
The Fall 2014 issue of the Objective Standard features my reviews of the following works: Edge of Tomorrow, directed by Doug Liman, starring Tom Cruise. The Martian, a novel by Andy Weir (soon to be a...
View ArticleThe Martian Presents a Hopeful Future for Humanity
The Martian is a tense action-drama focusing on the efforts of astronaut Mark Watney to stay alive on Mars after he is left behind in the course of a near-future mission.
View ArticleHurting the World’s Poor in the Name of Helping Them—Poverty, Inc.
The vast sums of money transferred by the governments of wealthy nations to the governments of poor nations do not help the world’s poor, for the most part. Rather, such foreign aid serves to prop up...
View ArticleIn Defense of Rudolph
Caitlin Flanagan doesn’t like the 1964 television film Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Actually it’s not entirely clear to me that she’s serious; her article is so strange I wonder if it’s...
View ArticlePolar Express and the Limits of Belief
Years ago, when first I tried to watch the 2004 Robert Zemeckis film Polar Express, I found the visual effects so bizarre that couldn’t sit through the film. But last year my young son watched the film...
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