SPOILERS AHEAD … GROWN BABIES, TIME CRYSTALS AND A TEMPORAL PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE … Well, strike me down, fill me full of nanobots, try to take any sense of freewill and personality (and decent fashion sense) and call me a bio-mechanical life form, Star Trek: Discovery went all Continue Reading
What if there’s not a villain? Wall-E as sociological storytelling (video essay)
2008’s WALL-E is on the surface a delightful film about two robots falling head over heels in garbage-strewn love. Pretty simple and straightforward, right? Well, yes … and no. As Pop Culture Detective aka Jonathan McIntosh (sponsor him on Patreon) explains, the film is actually considerably more complex than that, Continue Reading