Raritania

Back in the '00s, with social media rather less developed and utilized, it was not uncommon for bloggers to post little announcements or...

(I have been posting on No Time to Die 's box office run these past couple of months and decided to replace all those little posts with ...

It is an old stereotype that Americans, especially if they are not immigrants, are less likely to have second language skills than people in...

As even a glance at the box office data from China indicates the Chinese film industry is a powerful competitor for its vast domestic audie...

As the latest Bond movie finally has its day at the box office, and the data about the viewers is piling up, one thing that has attracted a ...

Recent decades have seen film production budgets explode--and with them promotional budgets as well, which have, if anything, grown faster. ...

As those who have followed the scene are well aware the boom in superhero films is about two decades old, certainly if one goes by the then-...

The idea of the hero is, I suppose, found in just about every culture in one form or another, and with it superheroes in the broad sense of ...

I have previously had occasion to mention on this blog my reading Graham Greene's brief but valuable essay about "our literary frie...

I doubt anyone would say that the twenty-first century has been Hollywood's most glorious era artistically. It did not and arguably coul...