Tag: Taraji P. Henson

• Ralph Breaks the Internet Review — Wreck it baby

  

  At university I wrote my dissertation on the similarities between postmodern theatre and video games. Sort of taking what Auslander wrote about in Liveness and reflecting it back; analysing how design is being increasingly influenced by the performative desire of players. As a part of that I looked at Alternate Reality Games, comparing their successes to the continued failure of the modernist design ideals inherent in virtual reality. In short, the gameplay of an ARG is only tangentially connected to the actual puzzle design work of its creator — the real play comes in the interaction between the community trying to solve it.

  E Warren

  December 3, 2018

  Film, Review

  Alan Tudyk, Animation, Bill Hader, Cinema, Film, Films, Gal Gadot, John C. Reilly, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Phil Johnston, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Review, Rich Moore, Sarah Silverman, Taraji P. Henson, Three Stars, Wreck it Ralph

• Hidden Figures: A Film Worthy of that Pun

  

  I only got the pun in Hidden Figures’ title as I was leaving the theatre. At that point it hit me like such a ton of bricks that all my bones simultaneously broke and I melted into a puddle on the floor. I’m not sure if that means it’s a good pun or a bad […]

  E Warren

  February 22, 2017

  Film, Review

  Cinema, Feminism, Film, Hidden Figures, Janelle Monáe, Movie, Octavia Spencer, Oscars, Review, Taraji P. Henson, Theodore Melfi