Another 335 essay: Bob Roberts is A Face in Every Crowd

Compare the character of Lonesome Rhodes from A Face In The Crowd with the title character in Bob Roberts. What do these characters say about each filmmaker’s view of the common man in America?  What do these characters tell us about corruption in the American political system (and the...

Captain America, The Falcon, and The Whiter Soldier

I’m just a few eps into Falcon & Winter Soldier, so you know all this already. When this show started, there were a few special writers online who were giving them shit for failing to solve racism in a six-episode run. The introduction of politics was ham-fisted, it wasn’t...

Pols335 essay: The political integrity of a celluloid fantasy.

There were three movies in this module- All the President’s Men, Good Night/Good Luck, and Shattered Glass. There were no question sets for Shattered Glass, which was good because I didn’t actually watch it. I sat through maybe the first half-hour and then had to walk away. Hayden Christensen...

Avengers, Assembled, and Packaged for Consumption

Dinner theater tonight is the first Avengers team-up. So much toxic masculinity being ejaculated all over the screen! Anyway, I want to see the Infinity War that’s all about Thanos trying to double the amount of food in the universe, and the Avengers dying to stop him because their...

The Hunt for Red October and The Art of Modern War

In my head, Red October is still the best Clancy picture, by far. Harrison Ford was too Mr America, and Ben Affleck was too jock. There’s no way around it, Jack Ryan is a Baldwin. The movie was so good it inspired me to read the book, the book...

All the President’s Horses and All the President’s Men

My writing style has become reasonably casual, parsed with a pompous vocabulary in pursuit of legitimacy (ha). I’ll construct essays like stories, and there’s nothing wrong with a joke every now and again. I like to think it conveys a comfortable confidence with the material, a “yeah I know...