Ready Player One, a movie hyped for it's severe abundance of pop culture easter eggs and championed for it's fictional OASIS machine, a VR on steroids experience that most of us would like to jump into. However, the realism of the movie overall along with it's overreliance on the easter egg selling point undermines the core messages and plot it is trying to portray. The setting is too fantastical for me to put real stakes and tension into. A real world disinterested in it's o

From where we last left off, the totally non-Mary Sue character Rey, old friends R2-D2 and Chewbacca, and Luke all have a merry time at a deserted planet. Well, it's not totally deserted. These aliens called the 'Caretakers' show up, and in deleted scenes Luke explains they're meant to tend to the Jedi structures on the planet, make sure they don't decay. See, this is a great part of the movie, it adds onto the Star Wars mythos and builds up the lore of it. These Caretakers c

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the eighth movie in the Star Wars saga, and a movie that has polarized the fanbase of this sci-fi epic opera space adventure fantasy. That's a mouthful, we'll just say Star Wars from now on. Point is, there are many angles from which one could review this movie. One angle is an extremely critical one, another a very blind support of this movie, another angle from a casual Star Wars, yet another from a fan well versed in Star Wars lore, and so on. B

April Fools is a time for celebration, well, for some. Mainly for jokers, for the people of the more serious attitude caliber, not so much. But maybe it would be productive to delve into the origins of this holiday, and discuss what I personally believe about this day. Firstly, April Fools was once a Pagan holiday, celebrating one of their gods. When Christianity began spreading throughout Europe, Christians began mocking the Paganists by fooling them, tricking the Pagans int