Category: Movies/TV

My favorite thought-piece about Ferris Bueller is the “Fight Club” theory, in which Ferris Bueller, the person, is just a figment of Cameron’s imagination, like Tyler Durden, and Sloane is the girl Cameron secretly loves. One day while he’s lying sick in bed, Cameron lets “Ferris” steal his father’s car and take the day off, […]

It seems to me that monsters du jour tend to represent social anxieties. Now, the Victorians were prudish about sex, but very open about death: death watches, open caskets, public grieving, periods of mourning. So vampires like Dracula and Varney tended to represent a fear of sex rather than a fear of death. A zombie […]

Democrats, who want to redistribute wealth to ‘Main Street,’ fear the Wall Street vampires who bleed the nation dry. Republicans fear a revolt of the poor and disenfranchised, dressed in rags and coming to the White House to eat their brains.” via The San Diego Union-Tribune

Much of the talk has been about how a prequel could take us to the aliens’ home world – but there’s been confusion as to which culture was being referred to… Den of Geek.

6. Your entire story should not revolve around a missing tape/USB drive/piece of footage/surveillance photograph. That is not a plot. It is a MacGuffin. via 20 Technothriller Tropes We Hope Never to See Again

I’ve had indigestion all morning. I was up at 3. I think our trip to CPK followed by Ben & Jerry’s ice cream might be the culprit. That or God is punishing me for watching Moment of Truth. I like how the audience sounds so mortified when the contestant humiliates his or her family on […]