I had a bit of trepidation in going to see the new Black Panther movie because of all the hype surrounding it. Lately, it seems that the media picks a movie to champion for some political reason, and if the public doesn’t agree it’s because we’re stupid or bigoted. For example, I found Jordan Peele’s […]
Category: Cinema
Lincoln’s Birthday Review – Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Today would be the 209th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president. Though revered as a secular saint in the USA, his legacy is hotly debated among my fellow libertarians. Thus I’ve decided that instead of writing about the historical Lincoln, I’d review the 2012 alternate-history fantasy film Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter which was directed […]
It’s Groundhog Day!
February 2nd is our most whimsical “holiday,” the day when the legendary groundhog’s actions are said to forecast the weather. “Six more weeks of winter” was a given in North Dakota where I grew up. Perhaps the rodent returned to his hole not because he was frightened by his shadow, but because he was freezing […]
Netflix “Bright”
Bright is movie currently airing on Netflix, written by Max Landis and directed by David Ayer. It stars Will Smith as a policeman in an alternate world where magic is real and mythical races such as elves, orcs, and fairies exist openly in society. Practically everything else is the same as in our world. There […]
Steampunk On Film – The Prestige
This 2006 movie by Christopher Nolan, is set in late nineteenth century England. The movie is based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Christopher Priest. It’s not steampunk in the traditional sense, but it appears in this list because of the appearance of Nikola Tesla (played by the late David Bowie) and […]
Steampunk Classics – Katsuhiro Otomo’s Steamboy
Probably one of the purest steampunk entries in our list of classics, Steamboy is a 2004 anime film written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, who also wrote and directed Akira, and produced by Sunrise. It takes place in England in the 1860’s. The titular protagonist is a boy named Ray Steam (the Japanese seem fond […]
Happy Birthday to the Film Industry
In 1895, the Lumière brothers Louis and August debuted their invention a camera-projector for motion pictures called the Cinématographe. On December 28th of that year, they showed their films, a series of short clips of scenes from everyday life, at the Grand Cafe in Paris. Though they had shown their films to the public before, […]