Nostalgia is defined as “a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.” One thing that is abundantly clear while watching Super 8 is that writer/director J.J. Abrams’ nostalgia for his early teenaged years—an era defined by the films of Steven Spielberg (also a producer [...]

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There is a sequence in the new Star Trek in which one character attempts to unseat another’s command by arguing that the leader is too emotionally compromised by the situation to be of any [...]

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