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I have previously written about how the tougher and tougher market for theatrically released films since the advent of TV has meant that fil...

Black Panther 2 has taken in $11 million in its fifth weekend, lifting its total to $409 million (up from $394 million last weekend), a rate...

The decline of movie theater-going is a story that has been told many a time--not least by the writer of this blog post. Short version: in...

In Jack London's Martin Eden the eponymous protagonist, discovering the world of books and the ideas in them, early on happens on the w...

A.J.P. Taylor quipped in one of the essays collected in Europe From Napoleon to the Second International that in biography the biographer ...

When Disney bought Star Wars it was clear that they meant to make Star Wars another Marvel-like mega-franchise, producing rather than a new ...

Black Panther 2 took in some $18 million in its fourth weekend, bringing its gross during the first twenty-four days of its North American r...

Recently remarking the way the YA boom that was so impressive in the early 21st century, and especially the early '10s, collapsed, I was...

It has long seemed to me that the superhero's popularity today is primarily a cinematic phenomenon, and that the superhero's stature...

Here's the post I wrote after Black Panther 2's second weekend. I didn't get it posted in time, but thought it best to put it up...

As of its third weekend Black Panther 2 has taken in just under $368 million --by all conventional measures, a healthy sum indeed. But this ...

Not long ago I wrote about how film critics have become much more prone to give good reviews of films this past decade or so --in spite of t...

Jack London is said to have thought that, at least on the level of his intended conveyance of his critique of the individualistic outlook ex...

Hollywood's release schedule continues to normalize. The summer release schedule was thinner than usual (a mere four top-grade would-be...