I Will Always Have Been Back: Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Schwarzenegger
Does Arnold Schwarzenegger act the same in each movie because he’s a bad actor? Or because he’s playing … the SAME PERSON?
Posts by John Perich on Overthinking It
Illmatic and the Crisis of Peaking Young
Is it better to peak early and produce something legendary, or build slowly and culminate in something merely excellent?
The Three Faces of Crank
Is Crank about man’s fear of emotional commitment? Globalization in the 21st Century? The human race’s search for meaning? Or none of the above?
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Just How Deep DOES The Rabbit Hole Go?
If The Matrix was the deep, philosophical action-flick that professors wanted us to think it was, then what philosophy did its sequels contain?
Blackmailing Your Boss: The Key to Wealth and Power
Two popular films released in the fall of 1999 contained minor subplots in which the protagonist blackmails his boss as a key to wealth and independence. These two films, Fight Club and American Beauty, live on opposite ends of White Male Angst Road.
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Can You Hear Me Running?
The band on stage in “All I Need is a Miracle” is clearly playing out the last synthesized bars of “Silent Running” as the video begins. Are we to presume that the stories of these two videos are somehow connected?
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The Myth of Atlantis: Atlas Shrugged and Bioshock
Comparing Atlas Shrugged to the video game it inspired, to see what was similar and what was left out.
Star Trek 2: The Eels Have Eyes
There are two moderate plot holes early in Wrath of Khan. Interpreted properly, they shed a whole new light on the real puppetmasters of Star Trek II.