Everyone loves a good old-fashioned dystopian future. They are cool now so I decided to study this movie trope. More specifically I looked at the 1960s idea of a dystopian future and the modern film’s dystopian future. I watched the following films in preparation for this series. Three from the 1960s, The 10th Victim –
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It happens to everyone. Your best friend who lives on the other side of the country sends you some variation of a text message that says “I’m on the bus right now and your EXACT DOUBLE just got on! Totally thought it was you!” Your response is almost always a silent shudder and a simple
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Everyone loves a good old-fashioned dystopian future. They are cool now so I decided to study this movie trope. More specifically I looked at the 1960s idea of a dystopian future compared with the modern film’s dystopian future. I watched the following films in preparation for this article. Three from the 1960s, The 10th Victim
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Did You Know?: Dick Wolf hunts human beings for sport. Season 12 of Special Victims Unit is simultaneously its worst and best season. Worst because based on all objective measures of analyzing television entertainment it’s atrocious, shittily acted, preposterously plotted with a narrative attention span of a small dog that only intermittently remembers what the
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Here’s a list of professional athletes that could be easily be a Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings character. The list was originally around 500. I narrowed it down, with some help from fellow writers J.P. Behrens and Heather Lin, to a reasonable amount. Enjoy! National Hockey League: 2. Torey Krug, Boston Bruins
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