https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfFcCwHN0Uw These are just a few of the many ‘item numbers’ that you would find in a Bollywood movie. The songs are completely irrelevant to the plot, but are required to promote the movie, and give audiences a reason to watch it. Their over-the-top, unrealistic…

just wrote something that devotes a paragraph to The Fault in Our Stars. one of my favorite things about her is that she has no high-brow/low-brow hangups – she is as likely to like a formulaic network drama as an expensive HBO prestige show.

Before beginning to read The Fault In Our Stars, I immediately recognized that the book looked appealing to people of all ages. Between the clouds and the scribbled writing, the book looked generally easy going and happy. The bright blue cover and the “#1 New…

In the opening chapters, Hazel and Augustus bond over reading each other’s favorite novel. Through this sharing we begin to learn more about the main characters individually, but also what they mean to each other. Augustus clearly likes Hazel enough to invite her to dinner,…

As a young adult novel, I think that John Green aimed for The Fault in Our Stars to be mostly realistic so that it would more easily appeal to the target audience of young adults who, like the main characters in this book, are also navigating…

Although we are told time and again to not “judge a book by its cover”, this is a rare opportunity to do so. At first glance, you can immediately tell the book is directed towards kids. From its bright blue color to the chalk-writing, the…

Hazel’s life is filled with issues (in her case, thyroid cancer) that people in this world constantly face every day, but all these issues seem to be answered by the appearance of one boy whom she falls in love with. In a way, the boy,…

Here’s two movies I can think of that are directly influenced by Busby Berkeley. This scene, from The Big Lebowski This scene, from 500 Days of Summer Would you call them camp?

Wilson spends the entirety of chapter 11 discussing and reviewing Celine Dion’s album Let’s Talk About Love, going through, in detail, almost every song that was on the album. That in itself distinguishes this chapter from the rest and appears as a review because in all the…

As I was reading “Let’s Talk About Love” Wilson brought up a point that I found very interesting. He made a connection between social habits and the ever going struggle to “be cool”. Whether we know it or not, we form habits that make us…