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Edgar Allan Poe keeps getting buried under bad scholarship and worse adaptations.
#EdgarAllanPoe #FilmCriticism #LiteraryCriticism #GothicHorror #Adaptation #Poe #ClassicLiterature #Cinema #Horror #MovieReview
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/t...
The Gothic Mirror: Historical Reality and Cinematic Myth in the Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe
The posthumous reputation of Edgar Allan Poe represents a unique intersection of literary genius and character assassination, a duality that has persisted for nearly two centuries. The initial “bur…
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February 2, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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From Skinny Dipping to Juno, a case study in how metaphor, restraint, and imagination got replaced by contrived references and viral horniness.
#Pop #Lyrics #SabrinaCarpenter #EmailsICantSend #ShortNSweet #Juno #SkinnyDipping #PopMusic #PopLyrics
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/t...
The Semiotics of Subtlety and the Aesthetics of Explicitness: A Comparative Analysis of Sabrina Carpenter’s Lyrical Evolution
The trajectory of Sabrina Carpenter’s career provides a stark case study in the shifting priorities of the global pop industry, illustrating a move from diaristic, nuanced storytelling to a hyper-c…
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January 31, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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From The House That Dripped Blood to modern “anthologies” in name only, this is horror that promises dread and can’t even deliver on the title.
#Horror #Anthology #FilmCriticism #CultHorror #AmicusFilms #TrilogyOfTerror #Narrative #Cinema #MovieReview
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/t...
The Architecture of Nihilism: Narrative Abdication and Structural Decay in the Horror Anthology Film
The horror anthology film, historically designated as the “portmanteau” film, occupies a unique space in cinematic history, functioning as a bridge between the literary short story and the visual m…
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January 30, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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Pop songs love to promise emotional permanence. Reality keeps canceling the subscription. Romantic mythology rewrites our expectations until irony does the editing.
#KellyClarkson #Pop #Criticism #MusicAnalysis #Romance #DaddyIssues #LoveSongs #PopLyrics
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/t...
The Architecture of Attachment: Transference, Engineering Metaphors, and the Deconstruction of the Romantic Savior in Twenty-First Century Popular Music
The cultural landscape of contemporary popular music frequently serves as a repository for the collective negotiation of trauma, specifically within the domestic and paternal spheres. Kelly Clarkso…
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January 28, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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From Ray McKinnon’s backwoods nightmare to Auster’s Möbius-strip of chance and punishment, these films use numbers the way horror uses knives.
#FilmCriticism #SouthernGothic #TheAccountant2001 #TheMusicOfChance #PaulAuster #RayMcKinnon #MovieReview
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/t...
The Architecture of Determinism: Systems, Numbers, and Moral Outsourcing in Ray McKinnon’s The Accountant and Philip Haas’s The Music of Chance
The cinematic exploration of systemic entrapment finds its most profound expression through the subversion of traditionally neutral frameworks, such as accounting, actuarial science, and game theor…
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January 27, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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From Danish metal to bargain-bin slashers, the Bell Witch legend keeps getting adapted by people who seem profoundly uninterested in what made it weird in the first place.
#BellWitch #Folklore #Horror #Movies #Metal #MercyfulFate #TheBellKeeper
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/t...
The Folklore of the Bell Witch: A Comparative Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Narrative and Modern Media Commodification
The legend of the Bell Witch, originating in early 19th-century Tennessee, occupies a singular position in American folklore as perhaps the most documented and idiosyncratic account of “supernatura…
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January 26, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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Ambiguity isn’t depth, and weirdness isn’t a substitute for writing. On Kinds of Kindness, Bugonia, and the cult of prestige nonsense.
#FilmCriticism #MovieReview #Art #Cinema #Absurdism #YorgosLanthimos #KindsOfKindness #Bugonia #EmmaStone #JessePlemons
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/d...
Dead Ends and Empty Vignettes: Yorgos Lanthimos’s Crisis of Discipline
Kinds of Kindness (2024) feels like co-writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos thought to himself, “How can I make an unmistakably bizarre movie? I know! I’ll cast Willem Dafoe, Emma Stone, and Philip Sey…
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January 25, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Science is fascinating without turning it into existential vibes or cosmic unease. When musicians borrow science, they inherit its constraints—not just its aesthetics.
#MileyCyrus #Science #Art #Rock #Pop #Environmentalism #MusicAnalysis #Physics
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/24/t...
The Epistemological Chasm: Scientific Literacy, Lyrical Abstraction, and the Semiotics of Environmentalism in Contemporary Popular Music
The intersection of empirical science and creative expression has historically served as a fertile ground for both profound enlightenment and significant conceptual misalignment. In the contemporar…
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January 24, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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Some stories don’t need to be retold. They need to be re-aimed. From Good Night, and Good Luck to A Sound of Thunder, this is what happens when we mistake repetition for relevance.
#FilmCriticism #Adaptation #GoodNightAndGoodLuck #GeorgeClooney
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/t...
The Architecture of Warning: Dissecting Media Adaptation, Historical Memory, and the Erosion of Political Conscience
The relationship between a creative work and its socio-political context is rarely static, particularly when that work is explicitly designed as an antidote to the prevailing deceptions of its time…
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January 23, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Two country songs. Two kinds of longing. One reaches for a life it’s told will make everything whole. The other listens closely to what’s already gone and finds truth in the echo.
#TheDream #BottleByMyBed #Songwriting #Storytelling #Music #Country #Grief
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/c...
Comparative Longing in the Works of Sunny Sweeney and Lori McKenna
The landscape of contemporary country music serves as a unique sociological and emotional microscope, one that magnifies the granular tensions between professional ambition and domestic fulfillment…
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January 22, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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Two films, two failures of craft. Representation isn’t the problem. Transparency, laziness, and narrative incoherence are.
#FilmCriticism #IndieFilm #QueerCinema #TransRepresentation #Writing #Narrative #Cinema #MovieReview
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/t...
The Dialectics of Transgender Representation in Independent Cinema: A Comprehensive Analysis of The Lyric (2022) and Secret Society (2021)
The landscape of independent cinema has increasingly served as a battleground for sociopolitical advocacy, often prioritizing the transmission of marginalized narratives over the traditional aesthe…
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January 21, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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Jadakiss asks questions like they’re a moral position. Dave Mustaine answers questions with symbols, paranoia, and fire.
#MusicCriticism #HipHop #HeavyMetal #Lyrics #CulturalCritique #Jadakiss #Megadeth #WashingtonIsNext #Why #WhatIf
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/t...
The Epistemology of Inquiry and Assertion: A Comparative Analysis of Lyrical Narratives in Jadakiss and Megadeth
The landscape of contemporary lyrical composition often serves as a primary site for the negotiation of political skepticism, historical revisionism, and the construction of personal truth. Within …
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January 19, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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Rental Family, After Yang, The Wedding Banquet, and The Farewell ask you to excuse lies because the characters “mean well.”
#RentalFamily #FilmCriticism #Cinema #MovieReview #Film
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/t...
The Architecture of Deception: Aestheticized Mendacity and the Ethics of Benevolent Falsehood in Contemporary Asian-Centric Cinema
The contemporary cinematic landscape has increasingly embraced a phenomenon that may be defined as “aestheticized mendacity” — a narrative strategy in which ethically grotesque behavior is sanitize…
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January 18, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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Nostalgia, irony, catchy hooks. But listen closer and the seams show: empathy swapped for spectacle, irony laundering sexism, specificity replaced by buzzwords.
#MusicCriticism #PopCulture #SongAnalysis #CulturalCritique #Narrative #Music #HipHop
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/t...
The Persistence of the Thematic Echo: Intertextual Decay and Narrative Transformation in Contemporary Popular Music
The evolution of popular music is frequently characterized by a cyclical return to established motifs, where songwriters revisit successful narrative frameworks to either expand upon their previous…
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January 17, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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Meet-cutes by collision, dating apps run by three people, gentrification as a buzzword, and love stories on narrative autopilot.
#RomCom #FilmCriticism #RomanticComedy #MovieReview #Hallmark #Screenwriting #IdiotPlot #Cinema
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/t...
The Anatomy of Contemporary RomCom Trope Saturation: A Narrative and Socio-Economic Analysis
The contemporary romantic comedy, particularly those entries released between 2022 and 2023, has entered a phase of narrative homeostasis characterized by a dense accumulation of predictable tropes…
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January 16, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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Sex in pop lyrics isn’t the problem. Bad metaphors, broken grammar, and zero restraint are. If you have to explain the joke, it’s not funny.
#PopMusic #LyricAnalysis #Innuendo #Metaphors #Songwriting #CulturalCritique #PopCulture #MusicWriting
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/t...
The Semiotics of Sexual Innuendo and Linguistic Decay in Twenty-First Century Pop
The evolution of popular music lyricism in the twenty-first century reflects a complex interplay between the commodification of sexuality and the erosion of traditional linguistic structures. As co…
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January 14, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Ghosts I can suspend disbelief for. Psychics as heroes, skeptics as villains, and pseudoscience as “true events”? That’s the really scary stuff.
#FilmCriticism #Skepticism #ParanormalMovies #Pseudoscience #HorrorFilms #CriticalThinking #GhostStories
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/t...
The Architecture of Belief: Epistemological Distortion and the Devaluation of Skepticism in Paranormal Cinema
The intersection of narrative cinema and paranormal phenomena represents a persistent conflict between the requirements of dramatic engagement and the rigors of scientific epistemology. In the real…
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January 13, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Alice Cooper gestures at menace; Ice-T itemizes it. One song name-checks irritation. The other turns password resets, office lunches, and unsolicited advice into a full psychological meltdown.
#MusicCriticism #IceT #Institutionalized #AliceCooper
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/t...
The Architecture of Aggression: A Comparative Analysis of Mundane Rage in Alice Cooper’s Brutal Planet and Body Count’s Manslaughter
The landscape of heavy metal and transgressive rock has long served as a repository for the disenfranchised and the short-fused. Within this auditory arena, artists have frequently pivoted between …
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January 11, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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Three sci-fi movies. Infinite space. Zero curiosity. When science fiction stops asking questions, all you’re left with are shiny coffins drifting through the void.
#ScienceFiction #FilmCriticism #SciFi #PlotHoles #Passengers #Lifepod #EventHorizon
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/t...
The Vacuum of Intent: A Critical Analysis of Intellectual Incuriosity and Narrative Collapse in High-Concept Science Fiction
The trajectory of science fiction cinema in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has often been defined by a widening chasm between aesthetic sophistication and intellectual commitme…
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January 10, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Covers, interpolations, and “reimaginings” that mistake recognition for meaning. From Heart to Nine Inch Nails, a tour of pop songs that lost the plot—and the rare ones that actually earned the risk.
#Pop #Criticism #MusicEssay #Covers #PopMusic
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/t...
The Semiotics of Recognition: Analytical Perspectives on the Aesthetic Dilution and Reimagining of Iconic Pop Motifs
The contemporary musical landscape is increasingly defined by a tension between the preservation of iconic artistic legacies and the commercial imperative to leverage recognizable motifs for new au…
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January 8, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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Cinema loves dying girls who never get sick, never get ugly, and never disrupt the romance.
#FilmCriticism #MovieReview #TerminalIllness #PlotDevice #Cancer #Movies #Narrative #GenderPolitics #Romance #BucketListMovies #IndieFilm
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/t...
The Aestheticization of Mortality: A Comparative Analysis of Terminal Illness Narratives in Boardwalk Winter, Life in a Year, and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
The cinematic landscape of the twenty-first century has witnessed the stabilization of a distinct subgenre of drama: the terminal illness narrative, frequently categorized within Young Adult (YA) o…
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January 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Self-awareness isn’t substance. Preemptive confession isn’t courage. When artists narrate their flaws instead of transforming them, irony becomes insulation and influence becomes an excuse.
#AsherRoth #McKennaGrace #Eminem #MusicCriticism #PopCulture
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/t...
The Architecture of Preemptive Self-Criticism: Lyrical Defensiveness and the Pastiche of Authenticity in Modern Pop Culture
The evolution of the twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century lyrical subject is marked by an increasingly complex relationship with the concept of influence. As the media landscape has shi…
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January 5, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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Holocaust cinema keeps mistaking accessibility for truth. When everyone speaks English, Nazis become sitcom fools, rescuers turn into saints, and God starts playing favorites, history doesn’t get clearer—it gets cleaner.
#FilmCriticism #Holocaust #History
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/t...
The Architecture of Reassurance: Linguistic, Moral, and Theological Erasure in Contemporary Holocaust Cinema
The evolution of Holocaust cinema has transitioned from the stark, documentary-style “atrocity films” used by Allied forces for re-education purposes after 1945 to a modern genre characterized by a…
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January 4, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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From Ozzy’s joyless dick jokes, to Flyleaf’s weaponized shame, to Demi Lovato turning blasphemy into flirtation—three songs, one awkward cultural anxiety.
#MusicCriticism #Analysis #Lyrics #OzzyOsbourne #BlackSabbath #Flyleaf #DemiLovato
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/t...
The Semiotics of Transgression: A Comparative Analysis of Sexual Taboo, Theological Interpretation, and Masculine Agency in Contemporary Rock and Heavy Metal
The intersection of sexual expression and religious iconography has long served as a fertile ground for the provocative maneuvers of rock and roll. However, the efficacy of this synthesis depends h…
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January 3, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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Two hood dramas. Zero accountability. Nineteen Summers and All Day and a Night want to indict “the system,” but keep tripping over the inconvenient fact of choice.
#FilmCriticism #HoodCinema #Narrative #SocialIssues #IndieFilm #MovieReview #Cinema
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/c...
Cinematic Determinism and the Ethics of Agency: A Comparative Analysis of Nineteen Summers and All Day and a Night
The evolution of contemporary urban cinema, specifically the subgenre often categorized as the “hood film,” has increasingly moved toward a framework of sociological determinism. This movement is e…
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January 1, 2026 at 1:33 AM