Just yesterday I saw Colossal (2017), a terrific little female empowerment fantasy that happens to hinge in part on its white American heroine’s personal problems writ large as giant rubber-suited monsters rampaging through downtown Seoul, South Korea. I returned home to the discovery that some find this premise infuriatingly racist, and in the particular words […]
Originally published on Facebook 16 March 2016. One of the things we lost when great special effects became possible is audience participation in the illusion. On stage, a simple wooden frame becomes Willy Loman’s house. The audience builds the space. Two chairs placed side by side can be a car. A man walking with poor […]
Originally published on Facebook 8 October 2010. The 1976 version of KING KONG is justifiably derided as possessing a vast magic-deficit compared to the 1933 original; I think it’s easily the worst of the three versions (and while I know many of you hate Peter Jackson’s 2006 remake, please shut up; I’ve had that argument […]