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Frictions, Factions, and Fatalities: Adapting DC Comic Characters into Video Games

According to the online video game database Moby Games, Batman has starred in 105 titles, inclusive of downloadable content episodes, … More

Comics, Film, Nov 2021, Print Essays, Superhero Multiverse, Video Games

Aliens in Popular Culture: ‘Half-Life 2’

Half-Life (2004), a game designed by David Speyrer, opens with a transdimen­sional alien invasion of the Black Mesa Research Facility … More

Aliens in Popular Culture, March 2019, Print Articles, Video Games

Aliens in Popular Culture: ‘Firefly’/’Serenity’

Prior to Firefly (2002–2003), creator Joss Whedon had written demons (in the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer), mutants (in … More

Aliens in Popular Culture, Film, March 2019, Print Articles, Television

Video Game Franchises: Bioshock

As a spiritual successor to Ken Levine’s cyber-punk classics System Shock (1994) and System Shock 2 (1999), the BioShock franchise … More

100 Greatest Video Game Franchises, Aug 2017, Print Articles, Video Games

Women Screenwriters: Armenia

After Armenia was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1922, the centralized government formed the Armenian Film Foundation in 1923. … More

Film, Print Articles, Sep 2015, Women Screenwriters: An International Guide

Scene Location: ‘Havana’ (1990)

Sydney Pollack and Robert Redford argued at length with the US State Department about gaining permission to bypass their embargo … More

Film, March 2014, Print Articles, World Film Locations, World Film Locations Havana

Scene Location: ‘Our Man in Havana’ (1959)

Filmed by a British company just after the communist victory of 1959, Our Man presents the last days of the capitalist … More

Film, March 2014, Print Articles, World Film Locations, World Film Locations Havana

Scene Location: ‘Weekend in Havana’ (1941)

As with most travelogue musicals and holiday romances to emerge from the Classic Hollywood system, Weekend in Havana was shot predominately … More

Film, March 2014, Print Articles, World Film Locations, World Film Locations Havana

Scene Location: ‘Havana Widows’ (1933)

Havana Widows is a classic pre-code comedy ‘sex film’ from the Hollywood studio system, where the titillation of the story … More

Film, March 2014, Print Articles, World Film Locations, World Film Locations Havana

Scene Location: ‘Wreck of the Battleship “Maine” and Morro Castle, Havana Harbor’ (1898)

Due to the rising commercial demand for dramatic content in the new medium of film, William Paley was commissioned in … More

Film, March 2014, Print Articles, World Film Locations, World Film Locations Havana

Scene Location: ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ (2002)

  My Big Fat Greek Wedding explores Greek American culture, and is set in Chicago, where the film was partly … More

Feb 2014, Film, Print Articles, World Film Locations, World Film Locations Toronto

Scene Location: ‘Assault on Precinct 13’ (2005)

Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) is an update of John Carpenter’s gritty 1976 remake of the 1959 classic western, Rio … More

Feb 2014, Film, Print Articles, World Film Locations, World Film Locations Toronto

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