by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 11, 2016 | Culture, Not Politics
The maturation of CGI graphics technology over the past couple decades has allowed Hollywood to bringing the world of comics to life, both in the movies and on television. Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Wolverine and the X-Men, Iron Man and a number of other comic book...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 9, 2016 | Culture
Imagine a classic schoolyard scene of yore: the big bully “calling out” the scrawny kid for some infraction, real, imagined or fabricated. The bully knows he’s perfectly capable of beating up the scrawny kid, knows that he’ll validate his...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 3, 2016 | Culture
Despite my best intentions, I ended up watching a large chunk of the Oscars telecast this past Sunday. My “best intentions” were to catch Chris Rock’s opening monologue and move on to something else, but I was wrapped up in a movie and didn’t...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 3, 2016 | Culture, Politics
Life lessons can sometimes appear in the oddest places. Today, it occurred to me that the movie Trading Places, the 1983 comedy starring Dan Aykroyd as a blue-blood snob and Eddie Murphy as a street hustler (and one I’ve watched many times), provides superb and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 20, 2016 | Culture
It’s a good time to be a nerd. All across the landscape, nerd culture is paramount. The top-rated comedy on television is The Big Bang Theory, a show about a group of very smart, very nerdy science types who work at CalTech on science stuff. Police procedurals,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 17, 2016 | Culture
When terrorists struck Paris last November, my Facebook feed filled up with people putting the French flag over their avatars. When gay marriage was declared constitutional by the Supreme Court, my feed was full of rainbows. Every so often, I get a chain letter or see...
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