“The Hunger Games” is a brilliant book and film series that is consistently tainted by the negative perceptions of its genre. In actuality, the messages and themes they depict are ones which we can learn a great deal and heed warning from, as our future grows increasingly similar to Panem’s reality.
Since survival, under capitalism, is a money game, the “choice” the players are making in Squid Game is not to simply continue playing the game out of a selfish desire to earn money. The real choice is between living and dying, and that doesn’t seem like much of a choice at all.
We’ve all seen at least one book-to-movie adaptation, given that in recent years there’s been a craze over turning novels, specifically young adult and middle-grade ones, into films. The popularity...
The debate between literary fiction and genre fiction is a long-standing one. Genre fiction is accused of being insignificant and shallow while literary fiction is called pretentious and boring. There...
We all seem to be aware of a kind of cliché that great artists often go tragically unnoticed during their lifetimes, the most classic example being Vincent Van Gogh. The implication of the cliché is...
I watched the first episode of “Black Mirror” last night and, before I went to bed, couldn’t help thinking about how much television has evolved from when, if someone were to ask me what my favorite...
