The Fall of the Roman Empire projects modern ideals onto an ancient world. Meanwhile, Seneca tries for satire and lands closer to cynicism—with one standout performance carrying the weight. Sometimes the real story of Rome is far more complex and interesting than the movies.
#RomanEmpire #FilmAnalysis #History #AncientRome MovieReview #Cinema
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/the-historiography-of-cinematic-ruin-a-critical-analysis-of-the-fall-of-the-roman-empire-1964-and-seneca-on-the-creation-of-earthquakes-2023/

Mother! (2017): Biblical Allegories (Who Represents God and Mother Earth?) #FilmAnalysis #MovieExplained #CinemaDiscussion #MotherMovie #BiblicalAllegory #SymbolismDecoded #MindBendingMovies #filmcommunity https://www.gsnsp.com/mother-movie-explained/

Two “deal with the Blues Devil” movies, two very different problems. Crossroads wants to prove anyone can play the blues but ends up flattening what the blues actually stands for. The Devil Comes to Kansas City, on the other hand, can’t even keep its own rules straight.
#FilmReview #MovieCritique #Crossroads #TheDevilComesToKansasCity #Blues #Music #FilmAnalysis #MovieReview
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/03/22/the-myth-of-the-crossroads-faustian-bargains-cultural-appropriation-and-the-narratological-erosion-of-the-blues-in-modern-cinema/

Two movies, one actor—only one makes sense. A Murder of Crows tries to be clever and ends up collapsing under its own nonsense. The Hit List? Messy, sure—but at least it commits. Sometimes the “dumber” movie is the smarter one.
#MovieReview #FilmCritique #Thriller #Movies #CubaGoodingJr #Film #Cinema #PsychologicalThriller #FilmAnalysis
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/the-paradox-of-the-antihero-and-the-villain-an-analysis-of-narrative-logic-literary-symbolism-and-cuba-gooding-jr-s-performance-dynamics/

From mythmaking to mental collapse—The Untouchables turns Al Capone into legend, while Capone strips him of everything, including dignity.
#FilmAnalysis #MovieReview #Cinema #TheUntouchables #Capone #AlCapone #RobertDeNiro #TomHardy #Gangster #Crime #FilmCriticism #JoshTrank #BrianDePalma #FilmDiscussion
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/cinematic-hagiography-and-biological-retribution-the-evolutionary-arc-of-al-capone-in-the-untouchables-and-capone-2020/

Two mob movies. One understands the myth. The other believes it. Bugsy turns a violent egomaniac into a tragic joke with a neon afterglow. Lansky tries to polish a legacy that was never meant to shine—and ends up feeling like a self-serving bedtime story.
#FilmReview #MovieCritic #Crime #MovieReview #FilmAnalysis #Bugsy #Lansky #Cinema #FilmDiscussion
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/the-myth-of-the-moral-mobster-a-critical-historiography-of-meyer-lansky-and-benjamin-siegel-in-american-cinema/

Artificial Intelligence and Film Studies: Midjourney versus CAMELS

CAMELS? As an English teacher, I’ve done a lot of analytical film studies over the years. The biggest problem is always students’ grasp of technical language: film analysis tends to drift off into character and plot description, even more so than for written texts. So, when I teach film, I lean more into my Media Studies background. In the UK I completed my undergrad in English and American Literatures. When I trained to teach, it was in English, Media, and Drama. Then, when I first […]

https://leonfurze.com/2023/03/29/artificial-intelligence-and-film-studies-midjourney-versus-camels/

CGI biblical epics, theme park arks, and spark-shooting relics. A strange collision of theology, engineering, and imagination.
#Noah #Bible #FilmCriticism #MovieReview #History #Myth #Archaeology #Science #Pseudoscience #FilmAnalysis #Cinema #Mythology
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/the-architecture-of-literalism-a-comparative-analysis-of-modern-biblical-reconstructions/

A sea-monster movie borrowing the aesthetic of whaling epics inevitably sails into the shadow of Moby-Dick. The spectacle is fun, but the ideas feel smaller than the ocean they’re trying to cross. Big ships, bigger beasts… but the biggest stories are the ones with ideas deep enough to match the water.
#TheSeaBeast #MobyDick #HermanMelville #SeaStories #FilmAnalysis #Animation #MovieReview #Storytelling #Cinema
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/the-maritime-mirage-deconstructing-historical-reality-literary-myth-and-digital-artifice-in-the-sea-beast-and-in-the-heart-of-the-sea/