Tag: movies

  • Guest Post: As The World Falls Down – A Labyrinth Retrospective

    This week’s post is special, because it’s a guest post from fellow blogger simpleek! Her blog focuses on a video games, manga, anime, and fashion. I can’t remember exactly how I discovered her site last summer, but I imagine it was one of her lovely Mass Effect-related posts that initially drew me in… Whatever the case,…

  • “Cloud Atlas” = Spiritual Science Fiction?

    It may be a little late to talk about the film Cloud Atlas — and it’s definitely daunting — but it’s something I’ve been wanting to discuss since I saw the film last fall. After seeing the trailer for Cloud Atlas in theaters and noticing David Mitchell’s book on the Sword and Laser’s book club for October, I was…

  • The Magic of Storytelling in “Life of Pi”

    Ang Lee’s Life of Pi was a pleasant surprise for me. I had started to read Yann Martel’s book years ago but wasn’t entranced by it, so I never got around to finishing it. Now that I’ve seen the movie, I’m curious to go back and read the novel with a fresh perspective. The ambiguity in the…