Artsy Techie

Three children play in a field, not far from some ruins. The place is beautiful, eerily quiet. One of the children invents a game, dangers, threats, and a set of absurd, almost random rules for their game. He will lead the others to a magical place where all wishes come true, but only if they [...]

A movie review I was recently reading stated, in a tongue-in-cheek manner, that Action movies are basically children’s movies for adults. That is to say that they are expressly designed to hit very specific pleasure centers to generate a predictable and uniform reaction.. Re-reading this review after watching Where the Wild Things Are makes me [...]