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It was recently reported that Disney canceled a planned "spin-off" series based on the Indiana Jones character (like so many such...

In the wake of the letdown of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase 4, the opening act of Phase 5 proved . . . something of another letd...

It has become a well-known joke that the action heroes starring in big-budget action blockbusters today are . . . a bunch of Chrises (Chris ...

Back in the 1970s psychologist Julian Jaynes argued that human consciousness as we know it only emerged in the second millennium B.C.. His b...

I have long had the impression that there is a tendency to underestimate the effect that "the digital age" has had on reading , an...

I previously considered the prospects of the upcoming Indiana Jones film at the box office this summer . In doing so I was more concerned w...

Recently reading what others have had to say about the prospects of Indiana Jones 5 I was struck by one possibility some have raised--that I...

In his important rebuttal to the New Economy hype of the 1990s Robert Gordon pointed to "hand-and-eye coordination" as a signific...

Last summer, during which it seemed fairly clear that the American and global box office were both recovering, the take still fell short of ...

I remember how the first Super Mario Bros. movie was supposed to be one of the big summer movies of 1993--right along with such movies as Cl...

I was actually more favorably disposed toward Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull than most--quite willing to go along with ...

As the amount of media content on offer has burgeoned, so has the quantity and intensity of the claquing intended to convince us that each ...

A Follow-Up to "Ezra Klein on AI in the New York Times : A Reaction." In making his case regarding the rapid pace and potentiall...

For decades now film--especially to the extent that we identify film specifically with what people see in a theater--has seemed to be ever-m...

When considering the way the movie business has become more blockbuster-centered it seems one should not only be attentive to the way in whi...