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DVD movie commentary Absurdism, existentialism, and meaninglessness forms the backdrop of films like Accident (1967, UK) and Annie Hall (1977, USA), but for me the experience of those kinds of films are incomplete. The philosophy ruined it, though cleverly conceived. Fantastic Four (2015, USA) runs in a different philosophical direction, which is more on the…

Movie article Good versus evil is presented as another worldview that competes with other cosmologies, yet there is something intrinsically true to life about good versus evil. Humans tend to understand it implicitly as if ingrained on conscience and morality. A moral person knows the difference between right and wrong. Repentant people know they have…

Movie flashback The Adventures of Milo and Otis (Japan, 1989, English language version) sounded like innocent, wholesome fun. It is about a cat named Milo and a pug-nosed dog named Otis on a farm. The wilderness surrounds them, but when the animals run about the setting isn’t always clear. Having a cat and a dog…

What attracted me to the first Taken (2008) film–funnily enough for an action film–is that the story revolved around real issues, the (tragic) contemporary trafficking of humans sold into slavery and prostitution. However, action films often have an issue somewhere in there, but trafficking is a subject that is rarely raised at the movies and…
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