by Do The Write Thing | May 18, 2020 | Do The Write Thing, Essay, Podcasts
This week we wrote, read, and discussed stories that included at least three of the words Extraterrestrial, Fee, Lend, Sentiment. Along with that, we focused on Relationships in our writing and how to improve upon them. This week was Jarvis’ turn to write a...
by Matt Freeman | Oct 5, 2016 | Book Essay, Essay, Movie Reviews, Uncategorized
The book The Little Prince is beautiful in its understatement and in the lightness of its metaphors. A child reads the book without fully comprehending the references of the metaphors, but still comes away with the intended (and familiar) sense that the adult world is...
by Matt Freeman | Mar 31, 2016 | Essay, Uncategorized
This article contains spoilers for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice One of the points I briefly made in my Batman v Superman review was that the film was more interested in deconstructing the superhero myth than actually telling a story about these characters that...
by Matt Freeman | Dec 29, 2015 | Essay, Uncategorized
Frozen is pretty great. Like all Disney films it rewards re-watches. Unlike most Disney films, the reason this one merits a re-watch is the twist – the revelation that the character Hans, until near the end of the film depicted as the main candidate for heroine...
by Matt Freeman | Oct 15, 2015 | Essay, Movie Reviews, Uncategorized
This article contains spoilers for Pan, but that shouldn’t matter because you should never see this movie because it’s fucking terrible. Origin stories are almost universally bad. If the most important part of a character’s story was its origin, that is where the...
by Matt Freeman | Oct 8, 2015 | Essay, Movie Reviews, Uncategorized
“The two most destructive words in the English language are ‘good job.’” Our culture cannot even accept that Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) might have a point when he makes this statement. It is coded in our minds as a semantic tag marking Fletcher as “The Villain”. But...
