Bale… Questions People Also Ask About Christian Bale 7 May 202318 Sep 2023 As noted previously, this blog is not about Christian Bale anymore. But yes, this blog post is about Christian Bale. Sorta. I am currently having a contest with the machines.…
American Psycho… Stop Saying the Book is Better Than the Movie 20 Sep 202222 Aug 2023 (Except for when The Book is Better.) One of the cheapest, easiest opinions a person can have is the broad statement “the book is always better than the movie” or,…
Bale… Why This Blog Isn’t About Christian Bale Anymore 16 Sep 20221 Nov 2022 I do not talk about myself on this website very often. I like using this website as a place to write about movies and, occasionally, promote things I’ve written that…
Bale… What Would Vonnegut Say About Cryptocurrency? 20 Feb 202121 Feb 2021 Or: God Bless You, Mr. Musk This is a question I keep asking myself: what would Kurt Vonnegut think of Bitcoin? Would he prefer Ethereum? Would he see the humor…
Bale… Why Will Ferrell Should’ve Played George W. Bush in Vice 10 Feb 20199 Nov 2019 A sort of (but not really) film review Let’s get something out of the way: yes, Christian Bale is great in Vice. He crushes it. He destroys it. He is…
Bale… Did Dignam in The Departed Used to Be Nice? 11 Jan 201911 May 2023 Another edition of Fan Theory Fridays This post is part of Fan Theory Fridays, in which we share and explore a new fan theory about a film, television series, book,…
Bale… Home Alone’s Old Man Marley & the Dickensian Test of the McCallisters 14 Dec 201828 Aug 2023 A Fan Theory About Home Alone's Old Man & the Film's Christmas Carol Overtones This post is the first in a new series called Fan Theory Fridays, in which we…
Alien… The Homage is Not Enough: on the Limits of Nostalgia-First Narratives 13 Mar 201814 Mar 2018 In the summer of 2016 everyone started telling me that I had to watch a show called Stranger Things. I was reluctant. The reluctance came from the way it was…
Bale… Some takes on 2017, before it ends 30 Dec 201731 Dec 2017 The end of 2017 is nigh. And with it, the top ten lists, the retrospectives, the predictions. Rather than the Top Books Published in 2017 or the Best Films of…
A Game of Thrones… Why That Game of Thrones Fan Theory Is Not a Game of Thrones Fan Theory 26 Aug 201726 Aug 2017 The internet loves a good fan theory. The trouble is, the phrase "fan theory" has started to go the way of words like content or hipster or artisan or any…