But I liked Nibutani better as a poser popular girl than a poser prim-and-proper girl, and the less that is said about the puns Kumin has taken it on herself to pollute the world with the better. And Yuuta and Rikka are now theoretically romantically involved and even living together, bu...
The fact of Todd Phillips’s film being so popular—especially among millennials who also feel “deworlded” and shorn of any meaningful narratives by which to live their lives—should give one pause for thought. All is not well in Hypermodernity. And the Joker as a modern updating of the...
By the time Chaplin’s film premiered, child characters, comic and dramatic, had become a staple of popular culture. In literature, Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn had been joined by the likes of newspaper humorist George W. Peck’s mischievous “Peck’s Bad Boy” and Penrod, the...