As Socrates learned in the end, stories have great power. “[A] poet, if he is to be a poet, must compose fables, not arguments,” Socrates said to his gathered followers during his final conversation before his death, as related in the Platonic dialogue Phaedo (S61b). Though Socrates had long argued, in his customary wily manner, that poets’ work was merely a poor imitation and of little merit, he had in his latter days begun practicing the arts. Plato, for his…
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017
A few years ago, in a galaxy far, far away: An Unconventional Christmas Story.
By the time that Star Wars: The Last Jedi released in theatres in December of 2017, the online world had worked itself into a frenzy of anticipation and speculation. Star Wars: The Force Awakens two years prior had sparked an unprecedented amount of extremely meticulous and almost entirely baseless theorization about every minute detail of the film, and every expert had an opinion on what its…
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Won't You Be My Neighbor? 2018
Nothing revolutionary here, but it's a very well-told story, put together in successful ways. In this sort of thing, choosing the right subject is critical, and this is one of the best.
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Hogfather 2006
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
There’s a scene in Hogfather in which Death teaches a supercomputer to believe in Santa Claus so they can save the universe and then the computer tells him what it wants for Christmas and it may not be in the top ten most bizarre scenes in the miniseries.
Terry Pratchett’s imagination knows no bounds. And ‘Death subs in for Santa when the personification of science hires an assassin to murder him’ is a hell of a sales pitch.
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