Movie Theater Closed

Remembering the Movie Theater

The movie theater I once worked at years ago closed for good recently. To anticipate longtime readers' follow up question, yes. It was the location notorious for high strangeness that's been featured on this blog before. But whether or not it really harbored ghosts, that defunct theater has joined other…
June 4, 202418 Comments
Star Trek Horror

Star Trek Is Zombie Horror

Recent interactions on X revived the evergreen debate over which genre Star Trek belongs in. Writer Isaac Young sparked the discussion with this incisive thread. But it was user Brainwright who introduced a related topic that bears on today's meditation: Related: Star Trek—The Motion Picture Miles of page inches have…
May 30, 202410 Comments
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How AAA Studios Killed 2D

A recent thread on X by author JD Cowan kicked off a trip down gaming memory lane. In particular, he addressed how AAA studios killed 2D games for a generation. Related: FF7: The 1st Unfinished AAA Game? JD is right. The fifth home video game console generation was when game…
May 22, 202418 Comments
1990s TV

Watching the 90s Watch the 90s

Opining about the 1990s is all the rage in the internet salons these days. If you haven't been following the debate, it may come as some surprise that nostalgia for the final decade of he twentieth century is now a subject of controversy. The disagreement arises between those who want…
May 20, 202426 Comments
Deadpub Hollywood China

Deadpub, Hollywood, and China

The death of oldpub and the implosion of Hollywood are two subjects that get a lot of play in the new counterculture. Newpub authors and anti-woke film critics alike have come to resemble End Times preachers interpreting the Book of Revelations to mean the eschaton is right around the corner.…
May 16, 20242 Comments
Nostalgia Room

Nostalgia in Light of Generation Theory

Over the years, I've dedicated what feels like miles of page inches to nostalgia in light of generational theory. Other counterculture figures have gone to great lengths showing how the outdated demographic models fail to account for the increasing rate of social change. It's not hard to understand. If your behavior…
May 10, 20245 Comments
2013

2013: The Year It All Changed

Our previous post about members of Gen Y facing the choice of growing up or becomig a byword gave rise to incisive commentary. Here, in no particular order, are the editor's pick of the comments. First, a diagnosis of what ails Generation Y by author JD Cowan: When I wrote…
May 8, 202410 Comments
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The Spielberg Hollywood Prophecy

The major woes facing Hollywood are the movie industry's worst-kept secret. But did A list director Steven Spielberg deliver a grim prophecy over a decade ago that predicted Hollywood's implosion? A series of interviews the Indiana Jones and Saving Private Ryan director gave in 2013 suggest a surprising answer. Steven…
May 6, 20244 Comments
Hollywood Shambles

“Hollywood Is in Shambles”

Our recent discussion about the slow death of the legacy gatekeepers drew a lot of comment. One reader who's in the know wrote in to relate his personal experience. I know I'm a little late to this but just wanted to give my own inside info on Hollywood's status to…
May 3, 20247 Comments
Tolkien Long Defeat

Fighting the Long Defeat?

Spend some time scrolling through dissident Twitter, particularly those corners favored by more traditional Catholics, and you'll soon run across references to J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Both are the subject of myriad BrainyQuotes and, especially in Tolkien's case, movie still memes. There's no denying that the works of these…
May 1, 20246 Comments