Causal Realism and Jared Leto’s Joker
Ever since those first stills of his character design, Jared Leto’s Joker has left many of us scratching our heads, trying to figure out why the portrayal seems so wrong. […]
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The Pacific Rim Principle: A Theory About Backstories
I finally saw Pacific Rim and, alas, it’s not a major triumph for women’s representation by any means. But it did make me come up with a new theory relating […]
Stick Figures
(This article was originally posted on Feminist Borg.) You may have seen this comic that was floating around Tumblr a few months ago. I haven’t been able to locate the […]
Alternate Interpretations of Hobbits, Part I
The Hobbit part one of eleventy billion approaches, and Peter Jackson has valiantly attempted to recast dwarves as action heroes after spending three movies establishing them as goofy comic relief. […]
About No More Dead Parents
To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness. – Lady Augusta Bracknell, The Importance of Being Earnest Being a parent […]