The Oscars are an embarrassment for an industry that prides itself on creativity and showmanship

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that a show about movies should offer what you haven’t seen before, leaving you with a little of the magic in your own home, rather than scratching your head wondering what they pay these people so much more money for in the first place. Hollywood is supposed… Continue reading The Oscars are an embarrassment for an industry that prides itself on creativity and showmanship

The Titanic, the Titan, and humanity’s endless hubris

The Titanic claims another five victims in a story that might be even more illustrative of humanity’s boundless pride than the original tragedy.  If the sinking of the world’s largest ocean liner was Shakespeare, the implosion of the Titan is Vonnegut in a sad sign of the decline of our times. For generations, the Titanic… Continue reading The Titanic, the Titan, and humanity’s endless hubris

Avatar: The Way of Water and the absurdity of Hollywood in the woke era

James Cameron and his massive ego take technology where it didn’t need to go in service of what can only be described as the most expensive animated film ever, while the woke take aim at yet another entirely fictional world not populated with actual people. James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water is struggling at… Continue reading Avatar: The Way of Water and the absurdity of Hollywood in the woke era