2016… The World Needs Bad Men: Bush, Trump, and the Anti-Hero 22 Jan 20174 Oct 2022 How the Bush Era Caused the Anti-Hero Wave that Gave Rise to Trump Toward the finale of the 2016 election, Mike Huckabee took to Fox News to give a defense…
2016… The True Theme of 2016: Never Meet Your Heroes 28 Dec 201611 Apr 2019 Hating 2016 and wishing for it to end has perhaps been the meme of 2016. It has been called a dumpster fire and was declared to "even sucked for Kim Kardashian." Beginning…
2016 Election… Some Thoughts and Observations That Won’t Appear in My Next Blog Post 8 Aug 20168 Aug 2016 Sometimes, I don't want to dedicate a full blog post to an idea, but I still want to share the idea. Is 2016 the Year of the Feral Child? First, a fun…
2016 Election… What We Failed to Learn About Terrorism from The Dark Knight 5 Dec 201517 Feb 2018 Or, "Stop Calling Them Gunmen and Start Calling Them Terrorists" One of the most notable elements of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is that, despite being made by a British writer…
Bale… Please, No More Origin Stories of How Evil Villains Used to be Good Guys or Children 17 Oct 201517 Oct 2015 If you haven't heard, the latest complete failure at the box office was the flaccid reboot Pan, an attempt to create a franchise out of the Peter Pan story by starting…
Bale… Why Ben Affleck could be the best Batman ever 24 Aug 201524 Aug 2015 People like to predict that Ben Affleck will fail as the Batfleck. But what this blog post presupposes is, maybe he won't? The fact is, Ben Affleck is a good…
Batman… A Hero Can Be Anyone: Reflections on the Loss of a Batman 17 Aug 201517 Aug 2015 You may have seen a sad news story about Lenny B. Robinson, a Maryland man who impersonated Batman to bring joy into the lives of children. Many referred to him…
Bale… Why Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman is A Bad Batman Movie 5 Jul 201517 Oct 2022 Note: I wrote this article back in 2015, and both my thoughts on the subject and the state of Batman films have evolved since it was published. I no longer…
Batman… Reserving Judgments is a Matter of Infinite Hope: Regarding Batman, The Joker, and Their Fans 20 May 201520 May 2015 On the first page of The Great Gatsby, narrator Nick Carraway tells us about a piece of advice his father gave him: "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just…
Bale… Do You Believe in Harvey Dent? 20 Feb 201527 Feb 2015 Remember The Dark Knight? Who can forget Harvey Dent's tragic line, the one which foreshadowed both his own downfall and the character arcs of so many of those around him: you either…