A Vicious Place: Why Bobcat Goldthwait’s ‘God Bless America’ Has Become a Cultural Artifact
1.0 Introduction: The Rage of the Everyman Bobcat Goldthwait’s God Bless America (2011) is less a movie than…
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5 Surprising Truths About God Bless America, The Angriest Film of the 2010s
There’s a specific, simmering rage familiar to anyone navigating modern society. It’s the feeling that rises when we’re…
The Wrath of Becky (2003) – Stifler gone bad
Preview This weekend, if you’re tired of watching superhero movies where nobody actually bleeds, you might want to…
5 Surprising Truths About Falling Down, The Movie That Predicted An Age of Rage
Introduction: More Than Just a Bad Day In the popular memory, Joel Schumacher’s 1993 film Falling Down is…
You’ve Been Watching It Wrong: 4 Insights That Change Everything About ‘Falling Down’
It’s one of the most viscerally relatable openings in modern cinema. The sweltering Los Angeles heat, the cacophony…
Game Over: How ‘Falling Down’ Uses a Video Game Structure
Introduction: Press Start to Continue Some films, whether by accident or design, adopt the narrative structure of a…
Falling Down (1993) – No Safe Spaces Here
Preview Alright, listen up, you knuckleheads. If you’re tired of movies where everyone is hugging it out and…
Merlin (1998 miniseries) – I wouldn’t call it ‘magic’ and anyone who thinks differently has a hamster for a mother and their father smells of elderberries!
The epic tales of King Arthur and the mysterious, powerful wizard Merlin have been brought to the small…
Brightburn (2019): It turns out the best argument against ‘Nature vs. Nurture’ involves heat vision and a lot of gore.
Remember that wholesome story about the alien baby who crashed on Earth and grew up to be a…
3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain: Behold, the final, pathetic whimper of the series
Oh, you’re a glutton for punishment, are you? Well, you asked for it. This is where the franchise…