MM3503 - Justice Seymour

Elizabeth's blog is one not like many I've seen in a blog class. While everyone surely does a great job in these blog classes, Elizabeth's is especially interesting in how in depth she goes into everything. Most of her blogs tend to run long, but in a good way. She segments her blogs with subheadings that do a deep dive into a certain aspect of whatever her topic may be. For example, in her review of Jeremy Jahns' channel , she'll first look at what the guy is all about, his channel, his style of review, and what the future may hold for him. Or in her vegan blog for Lifestyle and Popular Culture or the piece she wrote regarding Plexus and food technologies. She breaks up different aspects of certain topics which allows a specified look into her topic and also an easier read to know that she is going to jump to a different angle on the same topic. This is in contrast to me where I can tend to go on and on about some things in my blogs. One thing she does that I

After the success of Crazy Rich Asians , Hollywood has been more inclined to produce films that better represent people of Asian decent. Not only has a sequel to Crazy Rich Asians already greenlit, but not a full week after the Thai cave crisis, when 13 young children and their  instructor were trapped in an underwater cave, the rights were optioned for an inspirational film type film. For years, Asians, even more so than African Americans, have been getting short shrift in American media.  We all remember the blatantly racist depiction of the Asian neighbor in Breakfast at Tiffany's. While Hollywood often preaches about equality, they don't tend to do much about it until financial proof makes it necessary. Crazy Rich Asians took 30 million dollars to make, but made almost 200 million dollars in the United States alone.  And making 64 million from foreign box office

In the modern age of internet and social media, we as a society have hit a crossroads when it comes to its use and when to take it seriously or to dismiss it entirely. Social media is used as a means to get everyone as connected as possible. Whether it be Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, all are used to present an idea of yourself to people you may or may not know. Because of this, social media has been identified as something that must be done carefully because it can potentially make or break not only your ability to market yourself to potential employers but also to your entire friends and family. In the Summer of 2018, one of my favorite directors, James Gunn, was fired off of the film franchise Guardians of the Galaxy for tweets that had been rediscovered from his past after getting in a political argument with a Republican journalist (Gunn tends to lean left as his social media has come to prove.) After James Gunn's firing, social medias went crazy. For one,

Collider Live is a podcast/morning radio-esqe show run by film entertainment news YouTube channel Collider Video .  The show is run by Kristian Harloff of the former Schmoes Know and it's a mixture of movie news and Howard Stern type shenanigans. The show is a spiritual "Phase 7" of the now done Schmoes Know Movie Show (which ran for 6 previous "Phases" every time the show switched production houses) for everyone from the show has switched over to Collider, re-purposing the show to Collider Live. Collider Live is meant to have a laid back "Buddies in the bar talking Star Wars" type vibe. The show is pretty low tech in actuality (4 to 5 adults sitting in a windowless closet that sometimes looks like it smells a little) but has a lot of production value for something that is meant to seem so casual. The hosts, while each media/film critics, aren't obligated to talk about film on this particular show on the channel. They more talk about their

Let me just start off by saying that I know I already did this movie for the music review, but the film has just won an Oscar for Best Animated AND I recently rewatched it, and I would literally think less of myself if I didn't write about this movie. Spider-Man has always been the most meaningful superhero to me since as long as I could remember. Literally, besides a drink being dropped on me as a child, my first memories are at the theater watching the OG Spider-Man film back in 2002. What I love most about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse are the main themes of the movie, the most prominent being that literally ANYONE could be Spider-Man. These ideas weren't new, necessarily, but the fact that groups of people put so much effort into a film to inceptionize to children and adults alike that everyone was capable of putting on the mask, it is honestly inspiring. Stan Lee talked about one of his favorite aspects of Spider-Man being the fact that he has a full body su

In December 2018, Netflix released a new film in the Black Mirror universes called Bandersnatch . The film is an attempt at interactive viewing, taking a "Choose your own adventure" approach to it's storytelling, giving viewers the option to influence the story as they go along, being presented a number of choices which lead them down a certain path in the story.  What makes this interesting isn't totally the technology used to allow people to influence the story in real time (Netflix has implemented this in a number of children's programming ), but the story both thematically looks at the potential dangers of this up and coming technology, in a way only Black Mirror can, but highlights some possibilities about how to forward entertainment media as a whole. When referring to Bandersnatch, I always ask my friends "Have you played Bandersnatch yet?" Not just to allude to the in-universe videogame the main character obsesses over, but because you don