Nomadic Jane

There are tons of comic books and superheros in existence and a few of them have been realized on the big screen. The superhero is big money in Hollywood and those with the ability to do so have been trying to capitalize on these men and women of the comic book for years.

It seems that most of the films made on the subject of the superhero are based on characters or stories that have been around for a good while, so I wonder what the first film based on a more recently created character will be. Read the rest of this entry »

There were times when somebody wanted to see a movie, then the one and only option was to go to the local nearby movie theatre. Then came the era of videos, where you could easily record your desired movie from television and see them again and again, till the tape totally wore out. Purchasing movie videos means that you can watch your favorite movies prior to they came on television, generally after a very short time they came in the cinemas.

However, from last few years, technology has augmented at tremendous pace. You are no longer limited to watch movies at theaters or at television only, as now you have much more alternatives than the traditional ones. One can see movies online now. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been almost a decade since the original Matrix movie introduced popular culture to the idea of reality as an illusion. Not that it’s new idea at the time – millenia worth of philosophers have been saying again and again that reality as we know it, reality as we sense it, cannot exactly be thought of and regarded as real. Our senses can deceive us, after all, and in the end, we cannot truly rely on the material as a gauge what reality, and thus meaning, is. It is the general consensus of the multitude of intellectual fans of the Matrix franchise that the 1999 film had managed to modernize the idea well enough for even the common man to grasp it.

The idea that reality is an illusion was wonderfully solidified by the fact that around that point, technology had advanced enough to create cyberspace and other forms of telecommunication – in essence, we had by then developed a separate reality in which we can function. Read the rest of this entry »