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Julian Shapiro forces us to pull out our dictionaries in order to argue that, although King Kong’s narrative blends the fantastic and the real, it is nonetheless a realist text, as it reasons with the fantastic by virtue of reality.

Julian Shapiro gets angry and pinpoints exactly what’s destroying Hollywood – and Hollywood’s million-dollar potential for success – for audiences everywhere. And you won’t like him when he’s angry.

After reading Audrey Anton’s The Nietzschean Influence in The Incredibles and the Sidekick Revolt, it has become incredibly clear that being super in a Hollywood blockbuster certainly does not entail possessing super powers.

After the box office success of 300, Warner Bros. has realized how much money they can save on their big-budget tentpoles by not paying A-listers (or anyone close to an A-lister), and they’ve consequently chosen to exercise that option with Watchmen.

The Wrestler spends so much of its time intimately relating the audience to The Ram’s tolling profession as a wrestler, and to his dejected life as a solitary man, that the film ultimately hinges upon the supposition that The Ram’s career and personal life are sufficiently interesting to warrant such an extremely introspective look (fortunately, they are.)