Showing posts with label film-and-tv. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film-and-tv. Show all posts
Thursday, 3 February 2022

'The Responder' - tragedy, comedy and 'genre'

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  I watched 'The Responder' and it got me thinking about tragedy, comedy and genre. Traditionally, tragedy involves such elements as...
Sunday, 16 April 2017

"Boss Baby" - Karl Marx, spaghetti coming out of your nose, and commodity fetishism

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One thing that we marxists have bang on about is how capitalism is not just an economic system but how it reaches into all parts of society ...
Monday, 29 June 2015

Indominus Rex - Jurassic World's monster - symbolism

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According to wiki Director Colin Trevorrow has stated that the Indominus rex, the synthetic hybrid dinosaur at the center of the film...
Wednesday, 26 March 2014

British, British, British...but er...not.

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This was a very odd programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03yzjy6/A_Very_British_Renaissance_The_Renaissance_Arrives/ BBC ...
Friday, 12 October 2012

Pixar vs Dreamworks: Karl Marx predicted it.

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Below is the story about the feud between Pixar and Dreamworks, the two US competitors in the business of making computer generated imagery ...
Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Politics and The Lorax/Chicken Run/Bug's Life/Monsters Inc...

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Films for children occasionally take up major political themes which they express in non-realist ways through talking animals, imaginary cre...
Thursday, 30 August 2012

I catch up with Batman: and Osama bin Lenin.

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I'm a bit slow to reach the Batman franchise, but I sat through what felt like about six hours of the thing today: that Dark Knight thin...
Monday, 23 January 2012

Skins, tweets. Amazeballs. Apparently.

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Various technofreaks and futurologists champion the idea that young people are several steps ahead of education. The argument runs that they...
Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Memory, art, politics: notes

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Here's a conundrum: people produce 'art' - by which I mean, all of it - literature, painting,sculpture, dance, pottery, opera, s...
Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Hell Dorado

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One of the more unpleasant items on the TV menu over Christmas was an animated feature film from Dreamworks called 'The Road to El Dorad...