# cultrbox.com

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## Homepage

- [cultrbox | low life inside](/content/site-root.html): low life inside (145 words)

## Articles & Blog Posts

- [2015/05/30/it-doesnt-matter-if-mad-max-fury-road-is-a-feminist-film.html](/content/2015/05/30/it-doesnt-matter-if-mad-max-fury-road-is-a-feminist-film.html) (1 words)
- [Star Wars: The Force Awakens wasn’t made for me, but that’s OK | cultrbox](/content/2015/12/28/star-wars-the-force-awakens-wasnt-made-for-me-but-thats-ok.html): I love Star Wars. I'm a huge fan of the original trilogy, and I booked tickets to the opening night of The Force Awakens as soon as they became available. With those bona fides out of the way, I can admit that I don't love The Force Awakens. Having more in common with modern blockbusters than the original Star… (2,469 words)
- [2015/10/17/ready-player-one-is-only-as-cynical-about-nostalgia-as-we-are.html](/content/2015/10/17/ready-player-one-is-only-as-cynical-about-nostalgia-as-we-are.html) (1 words)
- [2015/06/19/changing-channel-switching-from-chromecast-to-fire-tv-stick.html](/content/2015/06/19/changing-channel-switching-from-chromecast-to-fire-tv-stick.html) (1 words)
- [2015/08/02/need-for-speed-movie-has-less-respect-for-reality-than-the-video-game-its-based-on.html](/content/2015/08/02/need-for-speed-movie-has-less-respect-for-reality-than-the-video-game-its-based-on.html) (1 words)
- [What’s right with Polygon’s editorial?](/content/2014/10/20/everything-right-and-wrong-with-polygons-editorial-on-gamergate.html): Despite a number of opinion pieces on #GamerGate, the cultural movement that mixes opposition to unethical practices in games media with some unsavoury misogyny, games website Polygon has refused to take a firm editorial stance on the issue - until now.  Editor Christopher Grant has broken his silence with several good points well-made, but he also shows… (2,208 words)
- [Captain America: Civil War represents the divisions in post-Iraq America | cultrbox](/content/2016/05/02/captain-america-civil-war-represents-the-divisions-in-post-iraq-america.html): Captain America: Civil War is surprisingly good. Enjoying it does depend fully on one having seen (and liked) all the previous Marvel superhero films. Don't come to Civil War expected to be properly introduced to any of the characters or to be brought up-to-speed on eight years of plotting. But if you already know and… (1,357 words)
- [In Blade Runner, God is dead](/content/2015/04/15/in-blade-runner-god-is-dead-and-deckard-is-a-replicant.html): Blade Runner is many things.  It's an action film about a tough guy hunting out-of-control robots.  It's a neo-noir mystery in the tradition of Raymond Chandler and John Huston.  It's the source of many internet debates over whether or not Deckard is himself a replicant.  But more significantly, Blade Runner is a challenging and brutally… (2,233 words)
- [The wicked witch](/content/2014/11/14/maleficient-aims-to-overturn-cliches-ends-up-using-cliches.html): Maleficent, Disney's 2014 retelling of "Sleeping Beauty" from the perspective of the witch who cursed the young princess, is self-consciously trying to overturn decades of Disney cliché in three areas: the treatment of villains of the wicked-witch variety, the treatment of handsome princes, and the treatment of true love.  Unfortunately, while Maleficent herself is a well-rounded character (for… (1,706 words)
- [Edge of Tomorrow: this poster is the best thing about it](/content/2014/12/02/edge-of-tomorrow-makes-the-end-of-the-world-seem-dull.html): When apocalyptic action film Edge of Tomorrow came out earlier this year, it bombed at the box office.  Despite this, a few loud voices said the film was badly underrated and deserved to be given a chance (eg. Roger Ebert, The Atlantic, Mashable).  Having missed it in the cinema, I optimistically decided to give it a… (880 words)
- [Spectre finally escapes the ghost of Die Another Day | cultrbox](/content/2015/11/01/spectre-finally-escapes-the-ghost-of-die-another-day.html): James Bond's latest outing in Spectre successfully blends the best elements of previous Bond films. It's not as unique or as focused as Casino Royale or Skyfall, but it is more entertaining and more recognisably Bond. Like 2002's Die Another Day, Spectre wants to celebrate Bond's long cinematic heritage; but unlike Die Another Day, Spectre knows which bits… (1,845 words)
- [Ariel is a particularly flawed protagonist](/content/2015/02/21/so-we-need-to-talk-about-the-little-mermaid/index.html): I saw The Little Mermaid for the first time this week.  I shunned Disney animations when I was a child, so I'm just catching up with things like this now.  I was expecting another cute and inoffensive cartoon, so I was unprepared for how dark the whole thing would get.  We need to have a conversation about… (1,602 words)
- [The best way to say goodbye in Persona 4 Golden | cultrbox](/content/2015/03/14/the-best-way-to-say-goodbye-in-persona-4-golden/index.html): Last year I wrote extensively about the incredible Japanese role-playing game Persona 4 Golden.  At the end of it all, I concluded thus: "I had done everything I needed to do in Inaba, made the most of my relationships there, and I knew I had discovered the truth.". Despite how good I thought this ending… (1,271 words)
- [Ex Machina shows robots made in our image reflect badly | cultrbox](/content/2015/01/25/ex-machina-shows-robots-made-in-our-image-reflect-badly.html): Ex Machina invites its audience to ponder the nature of intelligence, intention and creation through the scenario of a Turing test on an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) software running in a human-like robot body.  In creating a synthetic being that thinks and acts like a person, Ex Machina holds up a mirror to humanity and finds… (1,033 words)
- [Pixar’s Inside Out is perfect for people who don’t get Pixar films | cultrbox](/content/2015/07/26/pixars-inside-out-is-perfect-for-people-who-dont-get-pixar-films.html): Pixar's latest animated film, Inside Out, which depicts the personified emotions in the head of an 11-year-old girl as she struggles to come to terms with moving with her parents from Minnesota to San Francisco, is perfect for people who don't normally get the subtle humanity of Pixar films. If you thought Toy Story 3 was a… (1,234 words)
- [Avengers: Age of Ultron cast](/content/2015/05/16/avengers-age-of-ultron-shows-that-our-superheroes-are-insane.html): A popular maxim says the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.  In Avengers: Age of Ultron, our superheroes are rescued from the loony bin only by the happenstance of their script-driven exceptionalism and literal deus ex machina salvation. I'll give one thing to Avengers: Age of Ultron -… (1,064 words)
- [iPhone 6 Plus size comparison](/content/2014/10/11/the-iphone-6-plus-is-a-terrible-phone-and-i-dont-care.html): Like many people, I bought the iPhone 6 Plus without having a good idea of quite how big it would be.  When it arrived and I held it aloft for the first time, I immediately felt the difference compared with my previous iPhone 5.  When it came time to make a phone call on it,… (766 words)
- [Business | cultrbox](/content/category/business/index.html): Posts about Business written by Iwan Price-Evans (141 words)
- [The Man From Nowhere](/content/2015/01/21/the-man-from-nowhere-has-one-of-the-best-knife-fights-youll-ever-see.html): Okay, so the headline speaks for itself.  The Man From Nowhere is basically a Korean version of Taken, in which an ex-special forces agent goes on an unstoppable rampage to rescue the kidnapped (and unspeakably cute) daughter of his troubled neighbour.  And it has a kick-ass knife fight at the end.  Is that enough to recommend… (643 words)
- [Big Hero 6 loses the lesson of loss | cultrbox](/content/2015/01/01/big-hero-6-loses-the-lesson-of-loss/index.html): The primary theme of Disney's latest film Big Hero 6 is loss.  There's a lot to like about the film, including the honesty with which it confronts the subject of bereavement in the context of a children's film.  That's why it's so disappointing when in the end it undermines its own lessons and sucks the power out of… (1,345 words)
- [The Man From U.N.C.L.E. sanitizes the sixties and strips it of life | cultrbox](/content/2015/09/26/the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e-sanitizes-the-sixties-and-strips-it-of-life.html): The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (hereafter written without those infernal full stops), Guy Ritchie's film adaptation of the TV show of the same name, revels in its sixties setting.  But with its obsession with beautiful people, beautiful cars and beautiful locations, it loses the filthy underbelly that made authentic sixties films so attractive. From the title sequence… (790 words)
- [Once Upon A Time](/content/2015/01/23/once-upon-a-time-card-game-shows-that-we-love-to-kill-each-others-ideas.html): Once Upon A Time is a co-operative storytelling card game, where players work together to tell an original fairy tale using the elements on their cards, while each player competes to take control of the story and finish it with their own unique (and secret) ending card.  Though play is mostly good-natured, when it comes to winning,… (808 words)
- [The Interview](/content/2015/01/31/i-watched-the-inverview-in-the-name-of-freedom-democracy-and-dick-jokes.html): I had no intention of watching The Interview, the satirical comedy where a TV host and his producer travel to North Korea to interview Kim Jong-un and get wrapped up in a CIA plot to kill the dictator.  From what little attention I gave it, I decided it would be crass and unfunny.  Also, I… (655 words)
- [Captain America: Civil War Represents the Divisions in Post-Iraq America](/content/sitemap-xml.html) (2,049 words)
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