Food makes us happy. The plentiful scenes of fare on display in abundance in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) will make us smile, but may also make us think. When is too much more than enough? We have probably never seen anything like this on the screen—raining cuisine in abundance. This would be…

The well-used X-Men theme of good people caught up in a bad world is treated with grit, dirt and no polish in the latest X-Men movie, Logan. Theme Previous X-Men movies have put mutants, who are otherwise human in quite a few respects, as outsiders in a world that discriminates against them. The good mutants…

Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Han Solo in The Force Awakens and Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. The action hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. They are the good guys. Does the Arnold Schwarzenegger action hero need redemption? No, we say. Because he saves lives (in the way an action movie…

In Star Wars, Anakin Skywalker had transformed into an evil character, but this isn’t a total transformation into evil. Not total transformation Unless one is the Devil, one can’t totally be evil. In the television series Lucifer there’s a shot of what the Devil looks like. There is no compassion, empathy or mercy on his…

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