Category: Film and television

The word “moe” is synonymous with anime girls and a “cutesy” style. But what if this way of thinking is hopelessly flawed? What else can moe look like?

Attempting to review Barbie invites the question: What does parody mean in the post-ironic era?

Love & Pop is a unique piece of art because it does not present answers, it presents a world too contradictory for any such thing to exist.

It is true that Godzilla and nuclear disaster are deeply linked. But, simply applying the formula that Godzilla=nuclear weapons would pervert our thinking greatly.

To cut right to the chase, Glass Onion is less original than Knives Out. However, it finds some stable qualities that allow it to stand up to its predecessor.

The discussion of the dichotomy between “art” and “entertainment” dates back centuries. Regardless of what one thinks of the artistic value of Marvel’s films, it bares re-examining the question of what separates “art” from “mere entertainment” in the current age.

The next time you encounter a twist in a big network TV drama, ask yourself why this school-life horror called Another did it all so much better.

All human stories have two eternal subjects: sex and violence. These, combined with the two primordial genres of Ancient Greek theatre, grant us a basic vocabulary with which we can categorise some of the “raw material” which makes up basic storytelling — all human societies create stories about romance, tragedy, war, comedy, and crime.

Genre is such a useless framework on its own. Given that it serves as an universal intermediary between societies and their various art forms, you would expect a lot more from it. This has gotten me thinking about alternatives to conventional genre classifications and the appropriate uses for these alternatives.