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The Last of Us and World Building Issues that will Lead to a Weaker Season Two
The Last of Us and World Building Issues that will Lead to a Weaker Season Two
The Last of Us season one is over and has received wide critical acclaim from critics and audiences. Lest we forget, this is an adaption…
J.G.R. Penton
Mar 17, 2023
Grief in Station Eleven
Grief in Station Eleven
HBO’s Station Eleven is a series that explores the aftermath of a global pandemic and how people cope with the loss of their loved ones and…
J.G.R. Penton
Mar 15, 2023
Relationships in For All Mankind
Relationships in For All Mankind
The critically acclaimed For All Mankind premiered on Apple TV+ in 2019 and recently ended it’s third season with, hopefully, more on the…
J.G.R. Penton
Mar 7, 2023
Apple TV’s The Afterparty Review
Apple TV’s The Afterparty Review
The premise is charmingly simple: a party, a murder, an investigation. The show excels in its quirky take on individual eye-witness…
J.G.R. Penton
Jul 20, 2022
Theaters Suck
Theaters Suck
It’s simple, I hate going to the movies and having to deal with loud chewers, phone zombies, and obnoxious conversationalists.
J.G.R. Penton
Sep 28, 2021
On the Individual in Maya Angelou’s “Alone”
On the Individual in Maya Angelou’s “Alone”
Maya Angelou’s poem “Alone” is a powerful literary construction that challenges the readers’ interpretation of self in contrast to the…
J.G.R. Penton
May 7, 2021
A SPIDER-MAN MOVIE THAT ALLOWS PETER PARKER TO BE A HIGH-SCHOOLER
A SPIDER-MAN MOVIE THAT ALLOWS PETER PARKER TO BE A HIGH-SCHOOLER
***SPOILERS***
J.G.R. Penton
Aug 13, 2019
Harry Potter and Skipping the Craze When I was a kid
Harry Potter and Skipping the Craze When I was a kid
Only to Read it in my Thirties
J.G.R. Penton
Jun 19, 2018
Black Panther: Who “Saves” the World?
Black Panther: Who “Saves” the World?
Just One Change, One
J.G.R. Penton
Mar 13, 2018
War = Change
War = Change
Comparative Literature: Night, The Lover, and Waste Land and War
J.G.R. Penton
Mar 7, 2018
How Collective Identity (Nationhood) Challenges Self-Identity
How Collective Identity (Nationhood) Challenges Self-Identity
In All Quiet on the Western Front, Doctor Zhivago, and The Tin Drum
J.G.R. Penton
Mar 5, 2018
How Rabindranath Tagore’s Worldview is expressed in “Punishment”
How Rabindranath Tagore’s Worldview is expressed in “Punishment”
One of the recurring dichotomies of modern times is the nationalist and antinationalist trope. Humankind and society can be viewed through…
J.G.R. Penton
Nov 1, 2017
The Case for Using the Direwolfs Sparingly
The Case for Using the Direwolfs Sparingly
Remember the Great Eagles
J.G.R. Penton
Jul 24, 2017
Spider-Man: Homecoming and Responsibility
Spider-Man: Homecoming and Responsibility
If there is one question posed by Homecoming it boils down to: do we allow fun/normalcy (or the semblance of it) to overpower our sense of…
J.G.R. Penton
Jul 13, 2017
The Struggle Between Secularism and Religion in Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
The Struggle Between Secularism and Religion in Rushdie’s Midnight’...
Midnight’s Children presents an interesting inflection point between religious versus secular identity. The duality of religious/secular…
J.G.R. Penton
Apr 24, 2017
Logan — An Immigrant’s Story
Logan — An Immigrant’s Story
Logan might be the best X-Men story told on the big screen to date. It was intimate, funny, and honest. It developed characters in a manner…
J.G.R. Penton
Apr 20, 2017
Communication Across Generations and Communities in The Dew Breaker
Communication Across Generations and Communities in The Dew Breaker
The best examples of imperfect/interrupted communication in The Dew Breaker consists of the telephone conversation between Ka and her…
J.G.R. Penton
Apr 7, 2017
Belonging and Identity in The Inheritance of Loss and Clear Light of Day
Belonging and Identity in The Inheritance of Loss and Clear Light o...
The sense of belonging is a strong theme in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day. The characters…
J.G.R. Penton
Mar 29, 2017
Vodoun and Christianity in Haitian Culture
Vodoun and Christianity in Haitian Culture
In Jacques Roumain’s Master of the Dew
J.G.R. Penton
Mar 24, 2017
Ten Quotes to Ponder in these Anxiety Ridden Times
Ten Quotes to Ponder in these Anxiety Ridden Times
The world around us is plagued by violence, bluster, and crises. Everywhere the news paints a drab outlook of our shared future. Politics…
J.G.R. Penton
Mar 15, 2017
A Short Movie with Epic Structure
A Short Movie with Epic Structure
A couple of years ago I ran across this amazing short film, “Nuit Blanche” directed by Arev Manoukian. The arrangement between the parts…
J.G.R. Penton
Mar 15, 2017
Questions in General Sun, My Brother
Questions in General Sun, My Brother
The great questions of the 20th century lie at the heart of Jacques Stephen Alexis’ General Sun, My Brother. Alexis references to…
J.G.R. Penton
Mar 8, 2017
How Religion is Diminished in The Guide and The God of Small Things
How Religion is Diminished in The Guide and The God of Small Things
The novels of R.K. Narayan and Arundhati Roy display both secular and religious elements. Narayan’s The Guide approaches the world from a…
J.G.R. Penton
Mar 7, 2017
Society, the Individual, and Irony
Society, the Individual, and Irony
How R.K. Narayan Ironically Entraps his Characters in The Guide
J.G.R. Penton
Jan 23, 2017
War and Change
War and Change
A Quick View of the Liminal Spaces War Creates in 20th Century Literature
J.G.R. Penton
Dec 13, 2016
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