Shirow’s The Ghost in the Shell, together with titles such as Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira (1982-1990) and Yuzo Takada’s 3×3 Eyes (1987-2002), represent the cultural…
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Leaves on the Wind has one central theme that stretches throughout its galactic core and on towards its border planets: Family.…
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The 1979 story of Alien begins with a quote from Joseph Conrad. Not the mining ship Nostromo, named after one of Conrad’s novels,…
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With the full force of both Marvel and DC movie campaigns raging with their spectacular, firework-laced steam, comic book women…
Creative Failures and Failing to be Creative: Sci-Fi Cinema in 2017
If the Hollywood sci-fi movies of 2017 have one unifying special effect that will come to epitomize the collective output…
Playing With Harley – A Guide to Harley Quinn’s Character in Video Games (Part 2)
The first game in Rocksteady’s Arkham series, Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009) uses the same voice cast as Batman: The Animated Series (including Arleen Sorkin as Harley…
Playing With Harley – A Guide to Harley Quinn’s Character in Video Games (Part 1)
In the comparatively short period of 25 years that Dr. Harleen Quinzel has been dressing a certain way, following a…
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…
The Society of the ‘Fight Club’ is the Society of the Spectacle
When Jack, the lead protagonist and narrator of Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999), is at work, he monologues that “with insomnia,…
Navigating the Hollywood Monsters of the ‘Resident Evil’ Videogame Franchise
Following an arc from the haunted house terror of the original release in 1996 through to an explosive apex of…
‘The Sopranos’: Mythologizing the Gangster Genre
In a 1933 publicity piece for the film Blondie Johnson, Warner Brothers declared that, “The value of [gangster] films now…
‘Sherlock’: “The Six Thatchers” Goes Beyond Disappointing Into Downright Nonsense
Holmes’ abductive methodology, through which an observed inference is arrived at through considering the known facts, may prove useful in…
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