My last post notwithstanding, I emerged from Captain America: Civil War neither Team Cap nor Team Iron Man but thoroughly Team T’Challa, the Black Panther. Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa has perhaps […]
It may be tempting to think of Captain America: The Winter Soldier as the most “grounded” or even “realistic” movie Marvel’s ever done. Partly this is because its story about […]
In genre stories, how often is the apparent Chosen One told he’s actually not special? How often do the architects of the Master Plan despair that said plan is less “master” […]
Halfway through my run here at Applied Sentience, I figured it was about time that instead of talking about other people’s art, I opened up a little about my own. […]
“I’ve never been to San Francisco, but I have an image in my mind from media,” says culture critic Caroline Siede (of The A.V. Club, among others), explaining the impact […]
When Quentin Tarantino’s Vulture interviewer expressed surprise at his fondness for The Newsroom, the Aaron Sorkin drama many critics loved to hate, he replied: “Who the fuck reads TV reviews? […]
This summer’s Terminator Genisys, a kinda-sorta-reboot with several visual and dialogue callbacks to both The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, is not the abject disaster it could have been. […]
In her late 2011 Atlantic cover story “All the Single Ladies,” Kate Bolick makes the case to stop treating unmarried (and often professional, highly educated) women as anomalies or deviants—not […]
[SPOILER ALERT: This post discusses the plot of Avengers: Age of Ultron in detail.] “I don’t want to hear the ‘Man Was Not Meant to Meddle’ medley” is a sentiment […]
