Over the last month I’ve managed to see X-Men: Days of Future Past twice, so with the film fresh in my mind, I thought I’d do a review. The film is the seventh addition to the franchise, and marks the return of Bryan Singer as director.Read More »
Month: June 2014
“Teacher vs. Author” & Studying Literature
Every now and then while I browse the internet, I come across a certain type of meme. I’ve seen it in various forms, but the central idea is about studying literature and “What the author meant versus what your English teacher says the author meant.” You can see a basic example of the meme here.Read More »
The Hard Goodbye & Subverting Male Power-Fantasy
This past week I decided to reread an old favourite of mine; Sin City: The Hard Goodbye by Frank Miller. I first fell in love with this story watching the film adaptation in 2005’s Sin City, where Mickey Rourke played the protagonist Marv, a drunken, thuggish, trench coat-wearing bruiser, who goes on a bloody spree of revenge in the name of his short-lived lover Goldie. I was captivated from the first viewing, and it is easily a movie I’ve re-watched more than any other. I’ve read the comic book volume through a number of times as well.Read More »
Telltale Games and Affecting Narrative
With the release of the latest episode of Telltale’s The Wolf Among Us this past week, I thought I’d talk about their games — The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us specifically — and respond to some of the criticism I’ve heard them receive in the wake of their successes.Read More »
Muse with Me 