‘I Know This Much Is True’: When Happy Endings Are Warranted
Why I think an ending of failure and defeat rather than victory and hope would have been nihilistic at best and horribly pretentious at worst.
AUTHOR: Craig Klein
What’s Going On With ‘The Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes Movie?
With the entertainment industry at a halt, fans of the franchise are left wondering when they’ll be able to see their favorite post-apocalyptic sheriff.
Why ‘The Killing Joke’ Is The Greatest Batman Comic
When ‘The Killing Joke’ was published in 1988, it was immediately hailed by critics as the greatest Batman story ever told.
Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ Is Overrated
There’s a certain phenomenon I’ve observed within our species, and it’s the general acceptance that some works of art are just unquestionably masterpieces. A couple weeks ago I wrote an article called ‘Tolkien is Overrated’, and The Lord of the Rings is by far one of the worst offenders, perhaps a close second to Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, which, for those of you unaware, opens with over ten minutes of narration before anybody even says a word, yet it’s regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, despite blatantly ignoring the first rule in creative writing: show don’t tell. From …
Peacock’s ‘Brave New World’: A Review
A television adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World is currently on NBC’s new streaming service Peacock, and it is a fresh take on a tired genre. Often compared to George Orwell’s 1984, Huxley’s Brave New World is also considered to be a work of political prophecy, and is, in my opinion, at least, far more worrisome, mainly because of a single widely known phrase: “opium of the people”. Originally said by Karl Marx, the “opium of the people” he was referring to was organized religion, criticizing it for how it reduced the immediate suffering of the oppressed with a pleasant illusion, keeping them …