Category Archives: Movie Reviews

The category name says it all: reviews of movies I’ve seen recently.

Pacing and Narrative Structure: How The Hobbit and Django Unchained Screwed Up

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

At first glance, Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained are fairly dissimilar. One is the tale of a beleaguered young man who is put on the path to a quest by an older, bearded … Continue reading →

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Super Hero Narratives and Our Re-discovered Love for Them

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

NOTE: Sorry for posting this a bit late. The only excuse I’ve got is that I was busy at the movie theater doing more research for this blog post (honest!). Despite the fact that the comic book industry bemoans its … Continue reading →

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Stumbling through the Arena: Thoughts on the Hunger Games Movie

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

Folks who’ve been reading this blog for a while probably realize that I’m a big fan of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy. I frequently use it as an example, and have written up some more in-depth discussions of the books, … Continue reading →

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Moving Across Mediums: Assessing the Adaptations of Hugo and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

In the past month, I got to see two very different film adaptations of books that I loved: Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (which adapts Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret) and Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (an adaptation of … Continue reading →

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