The immense popularity of The Walking Dead TV show didn’t begin the latest zombie craze in our culture, but it definitely contributed to the enthusiasm for which people embrace the undead. Well, maybe “embrace” is the wrong word. Still, those pesky undead are showing up everywhere, even in the whimsical and surprisingly entertaining bucolic historical setting of Jane Austen’s masterwork “Pride and Prejudice”. It’s the English countryside in the mid-1800s and Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James) is…Read More
Review: Maleficent
There are no bad guys in movies any more, just good guys who are misunderstood or had terrible childhoods. Whether it’s the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, the band of car thieves in Gone in Sixty Seconds, or the terribly misunderstood, abused-as-a-child Norman Bates from Bates Motel (and thence Psycho) our society seems obsessed with trying to understand what causes people to be bad. And those Disney films we loved…Read More