For whatever can be said about the culture and the music of the 1990s, its contribution to the film is substantially underappreciated. I’d go so far as to say it is one of the best decades for the fil...
At this point, a little more than twenty years since its original debut, it’s safe to say that there’s a Pokémon for everything. By the time Generation VIII arrives in the next few years, there will b...
Action movies are heavy on style. But that’s not to say there’s the only style without substance. Well, sure, there are plenty of action movies that have the same contents of a hollow-point bullet, bu...
When the anime wave hit, it hit hard. That was because of the Kamehameha blast to the senses that was the ever-growing but deceptively simple Dragon Ball franchise. Full of color and bizarre character...
The 1990s was a renaissance period in American animation. Not only had Disney found its footing again in dominating the box office with their beautifully made animated films, but the Mouse, Warner Bro...
Superheroes began as quaint little wish-fulfillment stories for children. Those children grew up, but never forgot the larger messages the stories imparted them with; ideas of justice, endurance and s...
Traveling is ever more expensive and dangerous these days. However, TV, film and the Internet have made it practically useless now: we have pictures and people telling us what these exotic places are ...
Video killed the radio star. However, before people started identifying the Buggles song with the rise of music videos on MTV, it was originally about television and film taking over radio as the prim...
The Simpsons. The first family of the United States of America. Who would have thought that after the dust settled the best TV dads turned out to be Homer Simpson, Al Bundy and Hank Hill? Well, the la...
Children are seen on television as much as the adults are. They are there to give kids an access-point character or to give the adult character an emotional center and an automatic source for drama or...
Film and television are always trying to sell something. At its core, they’re trying to sell a story and their characters to an audience who will spend their time and money on this product. Of course,...
The best thing about animals is that because of their existence, we know what David Attenborough sounds like. The second-best thing is how many species there are and vast varieties within these specie...
There are 195 countries in the world. Each country has a national capital. Each country can also have dozens of states, and each of those states has its own capital as well. Whether you’re a world-tra...
As a red-blooded American, my diet consists of a strict regimen of steak, burgers (both cooked rare), Marlboro cigarettes, well-aged whiskey, freedom, and gunpowder. And as much as I love King of the ...
Cars and trains speak to the hearts and minds of young boys. I was obsessed with them. All of my friends were. My nephews and younger cousins adore them. It’s a genetic predisposition at this point. W...
America is a collection of strange and unique microcosms forced together by geography and agreements made on long-yellowed parchment. Despite combining into a single country, every state and every cit...
Remember in The Big Lebowski when Mr. Lebowski told the Dude, “The war is over. The bums lost”? Well, clearly, he was mistaken, but that’s not the reason I’m bringing this up. There was another war. B...
Video games are a constantly evolving (your mileage may vary) new media entertainment form. Sadly, we’re not quite at the interactivity/immersion level of the holosuites from Star Trek, but hey, the w...
It’s hard to believe that the Marvel Cinematic Universe started ten years ago. In the span of a surprisingly short decade, the MCU has produced 18 films and nearly ten television series spanning multi...
In one of his patented murderous rages, Homer Simpson’s eye caught the glimmer of a portable TV screen, half-covered in the snow. Upon seeing television for the first time in too long, he immediately ...
