The Legend of Tarzan and Free State of Jones movies review: enough with the white saviors
Filtering other people’s stories through the eyes of white men is tedious and offensive, and it feels like a desperate hedge against fresh perspectives.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
question of the day: Are classic pulp novels too dated to make faithful transfers to the big screen?
John Carter doesn’t work, but with some updating and shifts in emphasis, the Victorian Sherlock Holmes and War of the Worlds have made recent — and very successful — transfers to the big screen. Has entertainment moved on too much for popcorn crowds to care about classic pulp presented classically?
question of the day: Why are we obsessed with origin stories?
Disney figured we were all dying to see a John Carter origin story. Were we? Or maybe only Hollywood is obsessed with origin stories, and we’re just along for the ride?
John Carter (review)
This dreary Disneyfied inconsequence features all the bigotries of century-old pulp fiction and none of the romance, neither the sexual nor the adventurous kind…
John Carter (trailer)
Shhh! Don’t say John Carter of Mars! He’s not of Mars, okay?
