Video Games: Modern London

While the East End of Fantasy London is frequently centered on video games that speculate on the actions of Sherlock … More

Video Games: Fantasy London

While the East End of Modern London is often depicted in action adventure, gangster, and sport games where there is … More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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