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Catharsis denied: when fiery doom is an anti-climax

By Alex MacFadyen on March 7, 2013 • ( 3 Comments )

When I was about 12, my parents took me to see a stage version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings performed with life-sized puppets. As Frodo was agonizing over pitching his precious ring into the fiery pit of Mount Doom, Sam, exhausted from the epic journey but […]

The Dark Knight and the ACME Bomb: Batman and realism part I

By Alex MacFadyen on November 8, 2012 • ( 11 Comments )

The ending to The Dark Knight Rises left my wife doubled over laughing in the parking lot of the theatre. I tried to take a picture for posterity, but it was too dark. Given that no one else in the audience seemed affected in the same way, I […]