For some reason, I decided to have Hellboy week. Part of it was that I discovered the first movie on Netflix, and the found its sequel at the library. I once heard that studios did not want to touch a project called "Hellboy", and I think the reasons are pretty obvious. Does anyone really want to see a film where a devil is the hero? Well, if Christians avoid Hellboy … [Read more...] about Speculative Fiction Friday: The Hellboy films
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Speculative Fiction Friday: Howl’s Moving Castle
I have been wanting to talk about the films of Hayao Miyazaki for a while. If you have never seen one, then you really ought to, even if you are not into anime. There is a reason why Disney has been importing Miyazaki's films into Studio Ghibli, and John Lassiter, the big cheese at Pixar, recommends them so highly. It is because Miyazaki's films are imaginative as they … [Read more...] about Speculative Fiction Friday: Howl’s Moving Castle
Speculative Fiction Friday: Looper
I've seen a lot of time travel movies before, and they usually boil down to "we have to stop some bad event that happened in the past so we can save our future, which is actually the present". You have to suspend your disbelief a lot to believe in time travel, and you had to do it even more in Looper. Looper is based on the belief that time travel is here, but it won't be … [Read more...] about Speculative Fiction Friday: Looper