This year, 2018, marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The classic novel was written as a parlor game in 1816, the year without a summer, by a teenage…
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I saw the original Star Wars trilogy in theaters when it first came out, and my favorite character was Han Solo. It helped that I had a serious tweenage crush on Harrison Ford, and I…
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Tomb Raider could also be called “white woman’s burden.” It mirrors social progress in some ways, and in others shows how far we still have to go. I haven’t seen the original Angelina Jolie version of…
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A Wrinkle in Time was a favorite book of my childhood. I looked forward to the film eagerly because I wanted to see a gifted director do justice to the material. Many of the changes…