Sometimes, all it takes for a medium or writer’s reputation to grow is age. For example, Shakespeare today is considered to be the greatest English playwright. Whereas in his lifetime and up to a century after his death, he was considered too common, bawdy, and...
Whether one believes in ghosts or not, those ghost-hunting TV shows can be annoying. One goes in hoping there would be something more to it, or at least something approaching 1984’s Ghostbusters or even Scooby-Doo. Instead, one gets multiple night-vision shots of people yelling at...
Nostalgia is bittersweet, in that, one may have sweet memories of something, but rediscovering it can end up tainting those recollections. Let’s be honest: some media ages better than others. Dodgy rubber suits in '50s-'60s Sci-Fi are one thing, but social attitudes are a whole...
