A Note from the Author: I'm trying something different here, and doing a running review of this series as I watch through it. May the 4th is unofficially Star Wars Day. Part of that is because of the clever wordplay. "May the Fourth be with you," and "beware the Revenge of the Fifth," sound an … Continue reading Television Review – Star Wars: Visions (season 2)
Author: Tim Sebring
Teacher and Blogger Living in South Carolina.
Movie Review – John Wick 4 (and the entire franchise I guess)
As a teacher who is tentatively inching towards his journeyman years, I'm starting to build up a rolodex of student archetypes. After teaching for a few years you learn to find folks who take on roles like "The Wannabe Class Clown," "The Oddly Sincere Outsider" or simply "Brilliant but Lazy." But one of my favorite … Continue reading Movie Review – John Wick 4 (and the entire franchise I guess)
Ant-Man and Wasp: Quantumania Review
So Marvel does this thing every January where they release a single one-off issue that serves as like a combination thesis statement and sizzle reel for the upcoming year in comics. This year’s was titled Timeless and it was written by Jed McKay, a rising star at the publisher. The story focuses on an established … Continue reading Ant-Man and Wasp: Quantumania Review
Department of Truth – Subjective Reality in the Modern Age
An FBI agent attends a Flat Earth Convention. He's a special agent who specializes in online conspiracy theories, so he's morbidly curious. He wants to see his subjects in their element. While he's there, he's spotted and recognized by one of the richest men in America who graciously invites him to a "private event" going … Continue reading Department of Truth – Subjective Reality in the Modern Age
Film Review – Strange World
Author's Note: I thought my next review was going to be of Avatar 2, but come on. You don't need me to tell you about that. King James Cameron is the best in the world at his exact brand of go-for-broke, earnest blockbuster filmmaking. Go see it. I did not see Disney's newest animated feature, … Continue reading Film Review – Strange World
“Remember this: Try” – How Andor Uses Monologues
So how good was Andor right? In a television where all eyes (including mine) were on Amazon's Rings of Power and HBO's House of the Dragon, Andor came out of nowhere. Smartly written, beautifully acted and with production design that deserves all the awards, this show immediately established itself as one of the best, if … Continue reading “Remember this: Try” – How Andor Uses Monologues
Movie Review – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
So I've been reading/listening to this book called Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind. It's a pretty gossipy tell-all piece of nonfiction about the rise of New Hollywood in the late 60s through to the 70s. Listening to that book has certainly been enlightening in some respects. But so far my main takeaway is … Continue reading Movie Review – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The Nice House on the Lake – True Millennial Horror
The Theory of Generations is a term coined in a 1928 essay of the same name by Hungarian sociologist Karl Mannheim. The theory, which like any theory in sociology, psychology or...pretty much any social -ology, is limited but in brief it basically describes a "generation" as being a cohort of people who develop relationships and … Continue reading The Nice House on the Lake – True Millennial Horror
Star Wars: Andor – First Impressions
Welcome back to Midlands Generalist, the blog where we talk about currently airing genre TV. That's our brand now. That's what happens here. Oh well, at least it sort of motivates me to get stuff out in a timely manner. Anyway, this week we're talking about Andor, the newest Star Wars streaming series out of … Continue reading Star Wars: Andor – First Impressions
The One Part of the Rings of Power that Bugs Me
So there's this article from a satirical news site called Clickhole. It came out four years ago but it keeps coming up on social media. Like a lot of these joke articles, I get the feeling that very few people have actually read the piece, but the headline is clever enough that the article was … Continue reading The One Part of the Rings of Power that Bugs Me
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