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On Wholes and Parts—The Shins, The Beatles, and Band Members’ Roles in...
Editor's note: this guest piece is written by Alex Ehrhardt. Following his departure from The Shins in 2009, drummerJesse Sandoval opened the food cart "Nuevo Mexico."The recent Shins album Port of...
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Brave: This is what a real strong female character looks like
By Nathan Comstock, Television Section EditorI’ve seen a lot of people lately talking about Pixar’s newest animated adventure Brave. The fact that the film features a tomboy princess who’s goal...
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Panel Report: Psychology of Gamer Overs, Take Two
Editor’s note: this article is part of a series of posts that covers the discussion panels The Analytical Couch Potato hosted during Connecticon 2012. For those who couldn’t make it, the staff decided...
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Panel Report: Klingons and Feminism, Take Two
Editor’s note: this article is part of a series of posts that covers the discussion panels The Analytical Couch Potato hosted during Connecticon 2012. For those who couldn’t make it, the staff decided...
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Panel Report: Community and Metafiction
Editor’s note: this article is part of a series of posts that covers the discussion panels The Analytical Couch Potato hosted during Connecticon 2012. For those who couldn’t make it, the staff decided...
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Panel Report: The Sociopath as a Television Trope
Editor’s note: this article is part of a series of posts that covers the discussion panels The Analytical Couch Potato hosted during Connecticon 2012. For those who couldn’t make it, the staff decided...
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Panel Report: Korra and Real Life Influences
Editor’s note: this article is part of a series of posts that covers the discussion panels The Analytical Couch Potato hosted during Connecticon 2012. For those who couldn’t make it, the staff decided...
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Torchwood: Everyone Loves Death and the Undead, Right?
Editor's note: This article was written by guest writer Genevieve Pecharka. Genevieve is a former English major from the College of Wooster, who recently began channeling her talents into the reading...
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Dark Shadows and Edward Scissorhands: Sympathy for the Devil
By Gillian Daniels, ACP Editorial AssistantA man, played by Johnny Depp, is viewed by the world at large as a monster. His story, however, is really that of a misfit condemned to walk an unusual...
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Art Finds A Way: A reflection on film re-circulation
By Marten Dollinger, Movies Section EditorSteven Spielberg's classic blockbuster Jurassic Park came out when I was only six years old. Spielberg said that he wouldn’t let his own children watch it, so...
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Occupy Republic City! Or, Why You Should Join The Equalists
Editor's note: this piece was written by guest writer B. Lana Guggenheim. Guggenheim is a loudmouthed Jewess who enjoys blogging for social justice, watching Avatar, and eating. She will be studying...
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Ice to Meet You? — A Look at the New 52’s Reintroduction of Mr. Freeze.
By Alex Ehrhardt, regular guest contributorFirst, as a warning, this piece is an analysis of a plot twist. It is one of those plot twists, the ones that really ought not be spoiled. It’s the plot twist...
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[SPOILERS] The Women of "The Dark Knight Rises"
By Gillian Daniels, Editorial Assistant The chief virtue of Christopher Nolan's Batman films is not the plots (the pace is often plodding) or the characters (most if not all already invented by the...
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Zen and the art of time travel: Safety Not Guaranteed
By Allison Novak, Staff WriterThe time travel story is a common and popular one, and it always runs the same way. A person unwittingly goes back in time, wants to have fun, discovers something only...
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Compliance: A Hard-to-Watch Movie that's Worth Seeing
By Jonah Comstock, Editorial AssistantDr. MilgramIn 1961 at Yale, Stanley Milgram completed a series of experiments that would become among the most famous in the history of psychology. Studying...
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What? Pokemon And Digimon Are Evolving! Or, Why Both Series Have Become More...
By Chalkey Horenstein, Editor-in-ChiefWhen I was a small child, it was a forbidden subject to compare Pokémon and Digimon; the hardcore fans of either (though Pokémon fans more notably) would get riled...
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Beyond Green-Skinned Space Babes, Part I: Gender among the Romulans and...
By Nathan Comstock, Television Section EditorAs I have mentioned on this blog, I have now twice run panels on feminist aspects of Star Trek, focusing specifically on the Klingon race. I chose Klingons...
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Max Payne's Interpretation of Self
Editor's Note: this article was written by guest writer Lauren Shuffleton. Lauren Shuffleton is a writer, community organizer, and aspiring urban planner. Her double major in English literature and...
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Beyond Green-Skinned Space Babes Part II - The Ferengi
By Nathan Comstock, Television Section EditorLast week, I continued where my Connecticon and Revoluticon panels had left off, giving a brief overview of gender relations among the Romulan and...
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Sexual Identity in Silent Hill
By Justin Tokarski, Video Games Section EditorI love the horror genre. When done well, horror can connect with those primal fears that rest in the back of your mind, and there is a certain pleasure...
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Pokemon Conquest Gets an F- in History
By Chalkey Horenstein, Editor In ChiefLike many American gamers, I picked up a copy of Pokémon Conquest largely because of the Pokémon part, having little to no knowledge about the other half of the...
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Facebook as Entertainment
By Melissa Swanepoel, Staff WriterFacebook started as a networking tool, a social connection facilitator. It has become so much more — with each step the site has taken, it has broadened its reach, and...
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Dinosaurs: Feminism isn't just for humans anymore
By Allison Novak, Staff WriterIf you’re of a certain age, you remember Dinosaurs. It’s a show about a family of dinosaurs — the Sinclair family of Robbie, Earl, Fran, Charlene, and the baby. The...
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Peep Show: Not What It Sounds Like
By Marten Dollinger, Movies Section EditorAnyone with a passing familiarity with contemporary British comedy probably has a fifty percent chance of knowing That Mitchell and Webb Look, most likely due...
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[SPOILERS] Ruby Sparks and Hurting the Manic Pixie Dream Girl
By Gillian Daniels, Editorial AssistantFor the uninitiated, film critic Nathan Rabin coined the term "manic pixie dream girl" to describe a female character whose only concern is to entertain, inspire,...
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