Culture Warrior

From 2011, Landon Palmer jokingly considers the corrupt themes of Disney animated classics.

I often find that, as a devotee to cinema and little else, I understand history through cinema. After all, cinema can take me to places…

You’d be hard-pressed to find two filmmakers who are more wildly different than Woody Allen and Terrence Malick. One is a notably prolific and economic…

Themes of identity, difference, stigma, and othering are explicitly or implicitly present in much of the X-Men mythology, whether expressed through comics, television shows, or…

Movies have a strange relationship with history, that’s for certain. On the one hand, they have the ability to bring to life, in spectacular detail,…

Episodes and seasons and weeks after its inspiration and its humor have peaked, I still continue to watch new episodes of The Office week in…

Yesterday the Twittersphere (a place where topics are only discussed in rational proportions) was abuzz with the news that Terrence Malick’s long-awaited magnum opus Tree…

There will inevitably be a movie about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden – this much is certain. Recent news has established that Kathryn…

I am going to attempt something that many have tried and failed to communicate to people for the purpose of arriving at a reasonable understanding…