-
I still love Interstellar
Christopher Nolan’s 2014 space epic seems custom-tailored for me. I’m a sucker for its core elements: parental conflict (and resolution. Space exploration). Mind-bending science. Terrific music. Interstellar also serves up some controversial ideas about Love. Some reviewers faulted the movie for these threads, which they thought clashed with the “hard” science fiction backdrop. Not me;…
-
Never unintentional: my brain on linear TV vs. Netflix
The internet has fundamentally changed my relationship to content. I won’t go back.
-
Trailers for trailers
Many action-heavy trailers now begin with a stinger—a 4–5 second preview of the trailer’s most exciting scenes, stitched together with fast cuts and scored with a cacophany of rising sound effects. It’s literally a “trailer for the trailer.”
-
A Bill Murray cameo for ‘Ghostbusters III’?
How might Venkman have shown up, if a third Ghostbusters movie had been greenlit?
-
Avoiding iPhone spoilers
What if we treated leaked prerelease product specs like we treat Star Wars plot details?
-
‘Land Before Time XIV’: perpetually prepubescent dinosaurs
The Land Before Time franchise has survived for nearly thirty years.
-
What worked (and what didn’t) in ‘The Force Awakens’
It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough.
-
Convenient coincidences in ‘The Force Awakens’
Plot holes in Episode VII show where the filmmakers valued nostalgia over good storytelling.
-
Unhappy endings for the child actor who played Anakin Skywalker
The media has exploited Jake Lloyd for most of his life.
-
Priming your ears
Hearing the film score before seeing the film enhances—rather than spoils—the theater experience.
-
Follow
Following
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
Matt Hauger 