I am reading a book that has me spellbound: “Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth” by Ian Nathan. I have always been an avid Lord of the Rings fan, both the books and movies. So naturally, I am interested in this biography retelling details of Peter Jackson’s journey from acquiring the rights to the books…
The delicious enjoyment of bad art has been around for a very long time. It is strangely entertaining to watch rotten productions for its sheer badness. And as with most everything, badness is relative. The first kind of bad that is considered good is called “Camp.” Campy art is purposeful in its design. As one person has said, “Camp is…
Why are people so impressed with evil? Does it really take a brilliant mind to create perversity? Do you remember Sid Phillips from the Pixar movie, Toy Story? His pleasure in life was terrorizing his little sister by taking her toys and using them to perform perverse operations on. He would tear off baby heads and attach them to steel…