My Only Complaint About Joker

I love Joker, and if you haven't seen it, then please do so, especially before reading this blog post, because I will be spoiling the end of the film in the fourth paragraph, so don't even think of looking at the fourth paragraph if you haven't seen the movie yet. And yes, I believe a…

Photoshop Adventures

You know, I just realized that I was so busy for so many months that I never wrote about my adventures with the first Photoshop class I've ever taken. The good news is that I learned how to use license-free images from websites such as Unsplash, Pexels, and Pixabay to make the cover of my…

Safe Space

I can’t. I can’t touch you. If I touch you, I’ll want to hold you. And if I hold you, I’ll never want to let you go. I can’t let you go. I can’t.

Watching

It’s not the outside world I fear most; it’s the inside one, the one so near that disturbs me. Everything burns. The heart. The soul. The thoughts that can find no solace in a world drenched with blood and flame and not a cloud in the sky to rain down purifying waters so desperately needed.…

The Problem With Character Resets: Talking About Jumanji: The Next Level

There are SPOILERS ahead for Jumanji: The Next Level. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out. I think you’ll enjoy it. If you have seen it, I hope you enjoyed it. I sure did. 🙂 Anyway, to be blunt, in Jumanji: The Next Level, I feel the writers made what I would label…

I Think This Is About As Positive As I’ll Get With Modern-Era Star Wars

After watching Star Wars: The Phantom Menace a few times to get an idea of why some people have said the film is boring, I decided to go back and watch Star Wars: The Force Awakens, just out of curiosity as to how it compares to The Phantom Menace, seeing as how I hear some…

A Good Lesson for Writers: Question Everything in Your Writing

I know I’m picking on Star Wars: The Phantom Menace here, but it’s only because I’ve seen the movie so many times that I know it really well. Anyway, in my previous post about The Phantom Menace, I talked about the bad pacing of the film and how better editing can make the film flow…

The Importance of Good Pacing: The Phantom Menace and Editing

So, I’m watching Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace yet again. I’m doing this after hearing someone say the movie is “boring.” I want to understand why. What makes the film so uncompelling? I pause after the opening scene to reflect on it. Yes, it drags in places, with interruptions to the flow of…

The Tragedy of FN-2187, Finn: How Not to Handle a Character

Now that the circle is complete on Disney’s Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, we can look back on it without hearing the classic excuse, “They’ll fix it in the next film.” There is no next film. The trilogy is finished. We got what we got, and unfortunately, what we got was a lot of good intentions…

T…M…N…T…

Do you know what it’s like to be different, alone? Do you know how it feels not to be seen? We’ve saved them countless times, given more of ourselves than asked, fought back from the edge of defeat. And now, we have to save them again. And all they would do if they knew who…