Let all sleep, while to my shame I seeThe imminent death of twenty thousand men Fortinbras is about as minor a character as can be in Shakespeare's Hamlet (1599? 1601?). He is mentioned offhandedly a few times, such as Horatio's re-telling of Hamlet's father killing Fortinbras' father in a duel in Act 1.1, or Claudius [...]
For a certain generation, The Transformers: The Movie (1986) is a traumatic and horrible experience that defined childhood forever. Consider the opening: https://youtu.be/4lo7JPLJUUU We are in space. An eerie, haunting theme plays as, from between two suns, a distant object approaches. It grows closer, and we see it is a large grey sphere, surrounded by spikes, and [...]
(This one has been in the queue for a while, and I figure I should get this out before the TV show starts up and everyone starts in with their retrospectives.) Just finished The Invisibles in its nice fat trade paperback editions, and, well, perhaps you had to be there. I mean, I'm reading this comic out [...]
Everyone who couldn't afford the VHS tapes or DVDs eventually got the chance to watch NGE on Adult Swim, where it was presented in a more or less unedited format, and now a days, it is available to anyone with an internet connection and Google. But back in the late 90's, anime was much harder to [...]
I was watching David Harvey's excellent lecture series on reading Marx's Das Kapital, and in the introduction, he talks about how he's done this class for many many years now, and in all sorts of departments, even those you wouldn't expect to see reading economic and social philosophy. And, he notes, each year he learns something [...]
Rey and Poe are tasked by the Rebellion to locate the First Order's new "War Star," a gigantic planet sized base that is capable of draining the energy from a sun and using it to blow up ten planets simultaneously. To gain entrance to the FO base, they will need to locate Darth Vader's glove, [...]
Literal Machines 