Professor Beej

And now for the movie! First, let me say this: I loved it. I thought it was a fantastic film that was full of charm and wit and humor. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the film that I went in expecting to see. What strikes me the most odd about this is that I thoroughly enjoyed it, [...]

I had planned on writing this prior to seeing the film, but I got sidetracked with other things and couldn’t find the time. Instead, I will do my best to write my most unbiased opinions of what I expected from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince based solely on the novel, which I haven’t read [...]

So in my nervous scatterbrainedness of the past few days, I forgot to upload a draft of today’s post before going out of town. I have it written and ready to be edited, but it sits in my “Ideas and Drafts” folder on my computer at home, and I’m out of town until late this [...]

The idea of “death of the author” primarily means that once a work is created that the author’s influence on it is non-existent, that it is solely in the reader’s hands to place meaning in a text. This is to say that whatever intentions a writer has for a book (or a director for a [...]

I got to thinking about spoilers the other day. You know, someone telling you what happens at the end of a movie or book you really want to read or watch, but you just haven’t gotten around to it yet. I got to thinking whether there is a limit to when a spoiler warning has [...]