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Thu, Jan 12 2012

The Psychoanalytical Elements of Hitchcock’s VERTIGO

Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO (1958) holds a wide variety of psychoanalytical elements. The most prominent of these is the representation of the id, and how this piece of the psychic apparatus can spiral...

Sun, Jan 8 2012

The Twilight Zone: a TV legend

Few television series went as far as “The Twilight Zone”. Produced in a unique time in Western history, the tumultuous fifties and sixties, the show played on the heartstrings and touched on the...

Wed, Sep 1 2010

In Search of E.T.

Saying that E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial is my all-time favorite movie is pleonasm. All my family and friends know that’s the number one film for me. The movie about “the ugly little alien stranded...

Fri, Jul 23 2010

Batman 3: Which Villains Should Make an Appearance?

Comic Con is in full swing, and a Batman 3 announcement could come any day now. The one thing that has been on many people’s minds is the subject of the antagonist(s). Christopher Nolan has said...

Wed, Jan 13 2010

The Simpsons Have Hit Blu Ray, But You Might Want to Hold Off

For years, The Simpsons have overshadowed hundreds of DVD releases as their sets have provided a standard at which TV shows should be released on DVD. Now, Fox has decided to start releasing them on Blu...

Mon, Nov 2 2009

Why We Should Embrace Remakes

Before recorded history, movies were simply known as stories, and much like cold sores, they were spread orally. And while today’s youth spend their time memorizing the lines to Superbad, the youth...

Fri, Oct 30 2009

How to Make a Scary Movie Scary

The term “scary movie” is used very loosely. Typically, it refers to all films of the horror genre in general, which may or may not have lots of gore and attempted jumps but aren’t necessarily...