2004
January
Big Fish
Irresistible Revisionist Historiography
A Brief History of Las Vegas
The Last Samurai
Mystic River
‘That’s What I’m Tolkien About!’
2003
December
Boomer ‘Revisionists’
Miracle on 34th Street
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Redemption of Guilt
J. R. R. Tolkien, Enemy of Progress
Groundhog Almighty
Fight Club
Finding Nemo
Kill Bill, Vol. 1
Economics Lost in Translation
The Sensitive Guys’ Guide to Mayhem and Death
November
May I have a show of hands?
Marshall McLuhan, Film Interpreter
On Good Movies
Stone Reader Succeeds
Whit Stillman, Class Clown
Matrix Revolutions, The Corporate Mofo Guide
Every Man a Demiurge
Kill Bill: Volume 1
Haunted Hollywood
Bleating the Matrix
The Matrix Revolutions
If Pigs Could Fly
Lynch Goes from Twin Peaks to World Peace
The Matrix as hip philosophy textbook
The Salma Hayek vs. Friedrich Hayek Scorecard
October
Hop into History
What compels us to visit The Exorcist?
Akira
Anything Else
City of Angels Film Festival, Oct 23-26
Godspy
September
A Festival for the Rest of Us
Irréversible
The Lion King
Identity
Bruce Almighty
Why Buffy Kicked Ass
Movie Therapy
August
Pulp Fiction
Masked and Anonymous
Here and Hereafter
Christ Figures in the Movies
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The Animatrix
Cat People
Movies That Trick Us
The Matrix: Reloaded
Fight Club’s Hidden Conflict
Save Us!
Fight Club
The Matrix: Reloaded, Re-Decoded
Poetic License and Geography
July
The Rings of Tolkien and Plato
The Way We Were
Face of an Angel
Tolkien’s Green Time
The Pretentious Summer Superhero
Finding Hulko
Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology.
Pirates of the Caribbean
28 Days Later
Sunny Side Up
Banner Wrath
Legally Arnold
Ideology Reloaded
Pentium Matrix
Marprelate Matrix
The Matrix Loses Its Way
The Matrix and Monsters Inc.: Mirror Movies?
Blockbuster mentality killed movie creativity
June
Babette’s Feast and the Reclamation of Melodrama
The Matrix: Reloaded, Decoded
Church of the Masses
High-Heeled and Dangerous
Hindu Matrix?
The Hulk (and the Bunny)
All the Rage: The Hulk in Us All
F/X Porn
Dominatrix Reloaded
2 Fast 2 Furious
Transformers: The Movie
Hollow Matrix
Priests in Black
Sweet Home Alabama
Audio Decoded
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Man Who Wasn’t There
A Culturewatcher’s Take on The Matrix
Gnosis Reloaded
May
One Baaad Messiah
The Message of Bruce Almighty
Scent of a Woman
Fab hats, with a smirk
