Smells Like Teen Spirit: Moulin Rouge at 20 Anna McKibbin June 1, 2021 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Moulin Rouge! is based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, kind of. It’s also based on the opera La Bohème, but again, only kind of. It’s been compared to the opera La Traviata, the novel Nana, and the...
Why 10 Things I Hate About You is the Greatest Shakespeare Adaptation Carmen Paddock March 29, 2019 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Twenty years ago Heath Ledger danced his way down some bleachers and into film legend with an enthusiastic rendition of ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off You’. Its lack of vocal finesse coupled with a total...
Let’s Get Down To Business: A Love Letter to Mulan Carmen Paddock June 22, 2018 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Apologies to all whose have continued singing “I’ll Make A Man Out of You” in their heads – or out loud – upon reading the title. The 2010s have been a relatively strong decade for Disney...
Hercules: The Original Disney Superhero Phil W. Bayles June 27, 2017 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia It’s no exaggeration to say that the superhero movie is one of the most popular (and profitable) forms of entertainment today. Leading the charge – both in quantity and quality – is Marvel Studios....
Space Jam’s 20-Year Stranglehold of Madness Calum Baker November 15, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Space Jam was released in the United States exactly 20 years ago. That’s a lifetime. That could be many lifetimes. That’s five presidential terms – in fact, it coincided with the 1996 election that saw...
