Note: The following article is a loose reflection on Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like A Professor and how the novel works in conversation with the plot of the Netflix Series Stranger Things.  The hit Netflix show Stranger Things is one of the most complex and calculated works of media of the current era. What makes it so ubiquitous is how it caters to a vast audience on both...

“Where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay.” Lou has spent the last two years of her life running from her past, desperately searching for a means of protection. As a Dame Blanche witch, she channels her magic through nature, a tricky magic that demands balance, such as losing her sense of sight temporarily in order to enhance her sense of hearing. After a heist where Lou is only...

With the revival of the Top Gun series coming soon with Top Gun: Maverick, it’s worth taking a look back at the original film. A classic action film from the 1980s, the crew on Top Gun worked with the best technology they could muster with the funds they had.  Top Gun introduced the fantasy of flying a supersonic aircraft in aerial combat to the public. Within a year of the film’s release,...