On Star Wars and the End of Childhood Imagination
These reviews of The Last Jedi from the Free Beacon and The Washington Post express most of my thoughts on the movie as a movie. The Disneyfication of Star Wars (e.g. “We’re going to win this war not by fighting…
On Dunkirk and Candy
I went to see Dunkirk today. I was eating candy while I watched it and felt a great sense of unease in the starkness of the art’s content and the manner in which I viewed it. Even as veteran, I…
On The Ride of the Rohirrim
Throughout The Silmarillion the goodness of Men is directly connected to their affiliation with the Elves. In the First Age the Edain are the Men who resist Morgoth alongside the Elves, and grow greater in life, wisdom, art, culture, language, arms,…
On Social Media and ‘The Circle’
I’ve been thinking about this article from Rare the past week. The article discusses the trailer for the upcoming Tom Hanks/Emma Watson/John Boyega movie The Circle. The movie is an adaptation of a novel about a company like “Google or…
