A challenge for an author is to sign away film rights to a published work. This tendency is because a writer’s characters are precious and the writer has invested a significant amount of personal pride in a work as a whole. The finished product shouldn’t be tampered with. However, a few authors seem to have…

DVD movie commentary/review Eddie (Game of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage playing a teenager) wants to be a winner at arcade games, so plays at the local arcade, as well as entering the 1982 video game championships. 1970s-80s classic video games are present at ‘the games’ of video games, notably Pac Man and Donkey Kong (games I…

DVD movie commentary Absurdism, existentialism, and meaninglessness forms the backdrop of films like Accident (1967, UK) and Annie Hall (1977, USA), but for me the experience of those kinds of films are incomplete. The philosophy ruined it, though cleverly conceived. Fantastic Four (2015, USA) runs in a different philosophical direction, which is more on the…

DVD movie commentary If being older is an art, would you buy a body double? Regaining youthful ways and appearances is taken a step further than reality in Self/less (2015, USA). The movie brings youthfulness into more of the conceptual realm rather than a true reflection of reality. However, the movie’s focus on living younger…

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