“GIRL POWER” is one of the mantras of our time, a catchy motto from the glossed lips of glamorous actresses, pop music stars, and TV talk show personalities. This Christmas season, with the end of the first quarter of a new millennium drawing near, it’s worth pondering what Mary, the mother of Jesus, the most…
Author: Micah S. Harris
Spider-Man: No Way Home — 500 Years In The Making: A Brief History of the Multiverse in Pop Culture
“But do you really mean, sir,” said Peter, “that there could be other worlds — all over the place, just round the corner?” -C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It does seem like alternative worlds are popping up like dandelions over the neighborhood lawns in franchises like the MCU and DCU these days.…
The Message of Frozen 2: Get Your Loves In Order! (Why Everyone Is Wrong About Frozen, Part Two).
“A body by its weight tends to move toward its proper place…My weight is my love: wherever I am carried, my love is carrying me.” – Saint Augustine. “I can sense you there / Like a friend I’ve always known / I’m arriving / And it feels like I’m home.” – Elsa, “Show Yourself” (lyrics…
A Principled Princess Turns Twenty-Five. The Swan Princess: An Appreciation
The true Cinderella story of animated princess films is not to be found in Disney’s Cinderella but in the real-life story of Disney rival Richard Rich’s The Swan Princess. Overlooked at its box office ball of 1994 (the belle of that ball being the re-released The Lion King), The Swan Princess has, over the years,…
Frozen 2: The Gospel According to Olaf
“But that the dead are raised, Moses showed in the account of the (burning) bush…God is not a God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him” – Jesus Christ “Water has memory” – Olaf, Frozen 2 “I think there are some really spiritual, sort-of existential, themes about it that I…
Why Everyone is Wrong About Frozen. Part One: The Movie No One Ever Sees
“An argument that presumes to question the unquestioned and to wander some distance from the steady paths of received truth…cannot reasonably hope to be popular.” — Henry Knight Miller, Preface to Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones and the Romantic Tradition. Almost six years now after Frozen debuted, and, amazingly, most of the world has yet to…
Episode One: The Varieties of Bad Movie Experience (with Apologies to William James)
The time has come in the history of cinema when it is no longer useful to simply refer to a movie as a “bad” movie. I’m sorry, Robot Monster (below) cannot continue to suffice as a catch-all example. So, like Ro-man, we must recalculate: what does “bad movie” mean in the third century of moving pictures?…