Inglouroius Basterds: Tarantino’s Dark Mirror?
Is Tarantino trying to tell us something about the way we watch movies?
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Posts by Mark Lee on Overthinking It
Episode 59: Hippie is to Hipster as Woodstock is to Barack Obama
The Overthinkers tackle Woodstock, District 9, and Mad Men.
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The Legacy of the Musical Innovator: Les Paul and Andy Hildebrand
Les Paul is dead. Long live Auto-Tune?
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Textalyzing Albums: Word Frequency in the Lyrics of Born To Run, Straight Outta Compton, and Taylor Swift
We now have a new tool to help us decipher pop music lyrics: totally unnecessary quantitative analysis.
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To Be Gay in Alabama: Sacha Baron Cohen in the Heart of Dixie
Seriously, what is it with Sacha Baron Cohen, homosexuality, and the state of Alabama?
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Album Covers That Blow My Mind: Journey’s Escape
A deconstruction of the cover art for the Journey album Escape.
Michael Bay: A Quantitative Comparative Analysis
How bad is Michael Bay, really? And how does he compare to some of the greatest directors of our time, quantitatively?
The Ghostbusters’ Risky Business Plan
Forget Gozer and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. What about the cash flow problem?
No Fate But What We Make: The Greatest Terminator Lie Ever Told
“No Fate” did not spring fully formed from James Cameron’s skull. It’s a messy doctrine from a narrative point of view, and from a meta-narrative point of view, it’s the undoing of the franchise.
Star Wars Episode I: The Tenth Anniversary Confessional Booth
Admit it: you liked Episode One when you first saw it. And you didn’t think Jar Jar was all that bad.