“Hollywood is a traditional American town with traditional American values. Salt of the earth.” Some things are so quintessentially Los Angeles that they don’t need to be explained; we accept [ … ]
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James Gunn’s Superman isn’t Woke; But his values are alien in 2025
“Every era gets the superhero it deserves, or at least the one filmmakers think we want,” wrote Manohla Dargis in her New York Times review of ‘Superman Returns’ in 2006. [ … ]
Why 80s Action Movies Are Still Cool and Why Today’s Are Still Watchable
In the given time of history of 80s action cinema, people were endowed with the ‘boom’ and ‘bang’ of theater amusement.
Flamin’ Hot: Empowering the Mexican Identity in the United States
The importance of “Flamin’ Hot” is the representation of not just Mexican-Americans but Mexicans as a whole