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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
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Papa Roach’s “Periscope” peers at intimacy from a safe distance; Cradle of Filth’s “You Are My Nautilus” name-drops itself into a literary shipwreck.
#MusicCriticism #Rock #Metal #PapaRoach #CradleOfFilth #Lyrics #Metaphor #NuMetal #ExtremeMetal
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/t...
The Semiotics of Submersion: Metaphorical Discontinuity and the Crisis of Aesthetic Gravity in Contemporary Heavy Music
The utilization of maritime and subaquatic imagery within the heavy music landscape frequently serves as a shorthand for emotional profundity, yet the efficacy of such metaphors often founders upon…
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December 31, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Three Batista movies. Zero functioning worlds. Solar flares that misbehave, nukes that never age, cities that don’t exist, and CGI landscapes you couldn’t stub a toe on if you tried.
#Afterburn #InTheLostLands #MySpyTheEternalCity #DaveBautista
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A Batista Bomb Triptych: Afterburn, In the Lost Lands, and My Spy: The Eternal City
“Unofficial, Unauthorized Sequel to Escape from New York/L.A. Ostensibly Set in France but Actually Shot in Slovakia” would have been too long and overly specific a title — I can see why they went …
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December 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Two songs, one shared fantasy: that love means either sanding yourself down to nothing or getting your worst impulse permanently inked.
#MusicCriticism #Lyrics #RockBallads #PostGrunge #HairMetal #MötleyCrüe #Daughtry #SongAnalysis
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/t...
The Architecture of Relational Stagnation: A Comparative Analysis of Post-Grunge Circularity and Late-Career Hair Metal Impulsivity in Daughtry’s What I Want and Mötley Crüe’s New Tattoo
The evolution of mainstream rock at the inception of the twenty-first century was characterized by a distinct divergence between the polished, commercially optimized aesthetic of post-grunge and th…
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December 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Orang Ikan wants to be The Defiant Ones with a monster during WWII, and that’s exactly the problem.
#OrangIkan #MonsterMovie #WWII #FilmCriticism #Allegory #HistoricalCinema #CreatureFeature #WarFilms #BMovie #Cinema
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/t...
The Architecture of Historical Absence: A Cinematic and Historiographical Analysis of Orang Ikan
Orang Ikan (aka Monster Island, 2024) is The Defiant Ones-meets-Predator during World War II. You can see what the problem with that is, right? It’s possible to offer social commentary using litera…
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December 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Adapting The Hangman without its ending isn’t restraint—it’s surrender. Ogden’s poem is a warning that only works if the rope finally tightens.
#TheHangman #MauriceOgden #UnionStation #Bluegrass #PoetryAdaptation #BystanderEffect #ArtAndResponsibility
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/t...
The Anatomy of Omission: Narrative Decapitation and the Ethics of Moral Allegory in Union Station’s The Hangman
The translation of a narrative from one medium to another is rarely a simple act of transcription; it is a transformative process that requires a hierarchy of values. In the spring of 2025, when Al…
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December 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Hallmark keeps asking us to believe in angels, dreams, destiny, and free will—then runs them all through HR, timelines, and performance reviews.
#FilmCriticism #Hallmark #MovieReview #Dreams #Angels #RomCom #ChristmasMovies #Screenwriting
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/t...
The Bureaucratization of the Celestial and the Oneiric: A Critical Analysis of Managed Destiny in A Christmas Angel Match and My Dreams of You
Move over, Seraphim, Cherubim, and Watchers — A Christmas Angel Match (2025) introduces a brand-new angelic category: Christmas Connection Angels (CCA), who operate under the auspices of “Cloud Com…
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December 25, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Jekyll and Hyde is not a dual role. Hyde is a disguise. Every time filmmakers forget that, Stevenson rolls in his grave—and another adaptation faceplants into gothic nonsense.
#JekyllAndHyde #FilmCriticism #LiteraryAdaptation #GothicHorror
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/t...
The Anatomy of Fragmentation: Morphological and Philosophical Misconstructions in Cinematic Adaptations of the Jekyll-Hyde Duality
The historical trajectory of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, across the medium of cinema reveals a persistent tension between the source material…
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December 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Fifty mistook weight loss for depth and autobiography for insight. All Things Fall Apart and Get Rich or Die Tryin’ are ego exercises dressed up as seriousness.
#FilmCriticism #MovieReview #AllThingsFallApart #GetRichOrDieTryin #50Cent #EgoTrip
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/t...
The Anatomy of Transformative Narcissism: A Critical Investigation into the Cinematic Career of 50 Cent
The transition of Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson from the apex of the hip-hop industry to the competitive sphere of feature filmmaking represents a distinct case study in the intersection of celebrity br…
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December 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Tyrese Gibson has cultivated a career that thrives on two fronts: the global dominance of the Fast & Furious franchise and a prolific output of lower-budget genre films.
#TyreseGibson #TheWrecker #BloodlineKiller #TheSystem #Action #Thriller #Horror
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/21/t...
The Tyrese Gibson VOD Industrial Complex: A Critical Analysis of Low-Budget Genre Cinema and the Prestige-Parity Paradox
The contemporary cinematic landscape is characterized by a stark bifurcation between high-concept franchise tentpoles and the burgeoning sector of direct-to-video (DTV) and video-on-demand (VOD) pr…
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December 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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The Haunting of Cottonwood and Girl on the Third Floor don’t build tension—they skip straight to the collapse and wonder why nobody’s scared.
#HorrorMovies #FilmCriticism #BadMovies #HauntedHouse #IndieHorror #CMpunk #MovieReview
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/s...
Semiotic Dissonance and Narrative Decay: A Comparative Study of Domestic Horror in The Haunting of Cottonwood and Girl on the Third Floor
The contemporary domestic horror landscape is increasingly defined by a narrative structure where the physical restoration of a derelict dwelling serves as a clumsy metaphor for the psychological r…
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December 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Now Hiring and I Like Movies both utilize the retail environment to explore the intellectual hierarchies of film consumption.
#NowHiring #ILikeMovies #MovieReview #Comedy #Cinephilia #FilmCritique #IndependentCinema
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/t...
The Dialectics of Cinephilia: Narrative Architecture and Psychological Pathology in Now Hiring (2001) and I Like Movies (2022)
The cinematic exploration of the “film nerd” archetype, a figure defined by a parasitic yet devotional relationship with the medium, has undergone a significant transformation between the waning da…
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December 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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A look at how modern religious cinema flattens early Christianity into something safe, tidy, and historically unrecognizable.
#FilmCriticism #ReligiousCinema #Apocalypse #FilmEssay #CriticalThinking #FilmAnalysis #Bible
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/t...
The Tension of Tradition and Historiography: A Critical Analysis of The Apocalypse (2002) and Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018)
The cinematic representation of early Christianity frequently navigates a precarious path between hagiographic tradition and the rigorous demands of historical criticism. In the case of The Apocaly…
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December 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Nouvelle Vie treats prostitution like a habit you can quit, not a system you’re trapped in. That confusion isn’t poetic—it’s dangerous.
#NouvelleVie #FilmCriticism #SexWork #Exploitation #FilmReview #FilmEssay
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/t...
The Pathology of Survival: A Critical Analysis of Richi Mbebele’s Nouvelle Vie
Nouvelle Vie (2024) makes a fundamental mistake: it conflates prostitution with drug addiction. Not sex (of which there is none) but prostitution, which the film treats not as labor, not as exploit…
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December 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Demi Lovato’s “Unforgettable” feels sincere, powerful—and strangely anonymous.
#MusicCriticism #PopMusic #DemiLovato #Unforgettable #SongAnalysis #Elegy #LyricAnalysis
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/d...
Demi Lovato’s “Unforgettable”: Tommy, We Hardly Knew Ye
A song written for someone is not the same thing as a song written about them. That distinction matters most when the song is a memorial — especially one recorded by a global pop star, where rememb…
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December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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The foundational flaw in My Secret Santa is its reliance on the obsolete assumption that the Santa Claus role is inherently gender-restricted.
#MySecretSanta #HolidayMovies #FilmCriticism #ChristmasMovies #MovieReview #Romance #Comedy
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/t...
The Narrative and Cultural Collapse of My Secret Santa: A Critique on the Failure of the Superfluous Disguise
My Secret Santa (2025) is a holiday-themed, gender-flipped Mrs. Doubtfire. As Taylor Jacobson’s (Alexandra Breckenridge) token gay brother and his partner put it, “Look, this is the dumbest idea I’…
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December 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM