This was a film I was not aware of until very recently, when a close friend of mine showed me a video of one of the songs within the film. The song was called “Zydrate Anatomy,” and its subject matter

immediately reminded me of the video game Bioshock, with its

inhumanely addictive wonder drug “ADAM” and its irresistible

characteristic of physical and genetic alteration. This song was

presented in a dark and…

Despite it’s classic name and high reputation within both animation and film in general, Walt Disney Pictures is a studio that has been notorious in the past for simply recycling the same formula from film

to film. Sure, there may be great songs, good animation, and even cool

characters but more often that not, Disney is quick to pull out its

obvious pick of used-up tricks: damsels in distress, idyllic…

1968 has been an interesting year retrospectively within the film world, as two major films released at that time have garnered complete reversal in how people view them in recent years. On the one hand, you

have 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was initially hated during

its release but has since been give near-universal acclaim as one of

the greatest science-fiction films of all time. At the other end of…