Lindsay Ellis

Épisode 1 - Joel Schumacher's Phantom of the Opera: A Video Essay

8 avril 2016

you asked for it...

Épisode 2 - Hercules, Disney's Beautiful Hot Mess: a Video Essay

3 octobre 2016

At long last, we can finally put to bed the mystery of why Disney's Hercules was kind of eh.

Épisode 3 - How Three-Act Screenplays Work (and why it matters)

17 octobre 2016

Following up on the (brief) discussion in the Hercules video about how three act structures create a conventional narrative in Hollywood movies.

Épisode 4 - Designing the Other: Aliens on Film

28 novembre 2016

An overview of some alien creature designs from popular movies over the last few decades, and what information those designs impart to the audience.

Épisode 5 - RENT - Look Pretty and Do As Little as Possible

31 décembre 2016

RENT is terrible and I hate it.

Épisode 1 - Planting and Payoff - Featuring Mad Max: Fury Road

2 février 2017

Sometimes in order to understand narrative, you need to start simple and state the obvious.

Épisode 2 - Are Disney Villains Going Extinct?

28 février 2017

Disney Animation Studios has seen an uptick in quality and consistency in the last five years... as well as an uptick in red herrings and plot twists replacing the traditional villain narrative. Did the era of the Disney villain end a long time ago?

Épisode 3 - Is Beauty and the Beast About Stockholm Syndrome?

29 mars 2017

No. The answer is no.

Épisode 4 - Mel Brooks, The Producers and the Ethics of Satire about N@zis

2 juin 2017

You're not Mel Brooks.

Épisode 5 - Pocahontas Was a Mistake, and Here's Why!

16 juillet 2017

But there's a benefit to losing... you get to learn from your mistake. So don't worry, we're gonna fix colonialism, y'all!

Épisode 6 - The Complex Feels of Guardians of the Galaxy v.2

30 août 2017

why I felt a feel

Épisode 7 - The Revisionist World of Disney: Mary Poppins, Walt Disney and Saving Mr. Banks

3 octobre 2017

Disney's way of framing culture, history and stories may filter out a lot, but there is a reason why sometimes people need that Disney magic.

Épisode 8 - The Case for Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame

31 octobre 2017

Hunchback is the metaphorical Quasimodo of the disney animated feature film canon--weird, hidden away, and relegated to its master's hairshirt. Some common and consistent criticisms of the film have cropped up over the years, but they often miss crucial context and the original goal of Victor Hugo's dark tale of human brutality.

Épisode 9 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Genres Tell No Tales

22 novembre 2017

yo-ho yo-ho, Eisner/King Lear analogy

Épisode 10 - Stranger Things, IT and the Upside Down of Nostalgia

4 décembre 2017

Let's take a look at the idea of the 30-year cycle, and why 80's themed media is suddenly so lucrative.

Épisode 1 - Dear Stephenie Meyer

22 janvier 2018

It's time to re-examine the decade-old culture surrounding Twilight-bashing.

Épisode 2 - Bright: The Apotheosis of Lazy Worldbuilding

1 février 2018

We're broken people now.

Épisode 3 - My Monster Boyfriend

2 mars 2018

Some have called The Shape of Water ... gimmicky, shall we say, but the desire to get down and dirty with monsters is (wait for it) a tale as old as time.

Épisode 4 - The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2)

27 mars 2018

In which we look back at The Hobbit trilogy and try to give it a fair shake.

Épisode 5 - The Hobbit: Battle of Five Studios (Part 2/2)

3 avril 2018

So we've looked into what the problems were with these movies, the question now is... why? What happened, Peter Jackson? WHAT HAPPENED?

Épisode 6 - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Warners (Part 3/2)

20 avril 2018

Nothing is pure.

Épisode 7 - The Ideology of the First Order

3 juin 2018

Are you sick of Star Wars video essays? Yeah, me too. I'm sorry but it's my turn to talk about a Star War.

Épisode 8 - That Time Disney Remade Beauty and the Beast

31 juillet 2018

Thanks, I hate it.

Épisode 9 - The Death of the Hollywood Movie Musical

31 août 2018

“Roadshows command premium prices and the exclusive firstruns presumably whet appetites for the subsequent runs at regular prices. And they justify financially the greater length, high costs, starrier casts, and whatever else is big about bigness. The roadshow contagion is now so epidemic that almost any picture deal which comes along is very carefully mined for its intermission potential.”--Charles Champlin, The Los Angeles Times, 1967

Épisode 10 - YouTube: Manufacturing Authenticity (For Fun and Profit!)

11 septembre 2018

Épisode 11 - Product Placement and Fair Use

30 novembre 2018

Épisode 12 - Death of the Author

31 décembre 2018

What is brand can never die.

Épisode 1 - Independence Day vs. War of the Worlds

31 janvier 2019

A comparison of alien invasion movies from two very different cultures.

Épisode 2 - How Aladdin Changed Animation (by Screwing Over Robin Williams)

20 mai 2019

"After all, you've lied to everyone else, I was starting to feel left out."

Épisode 3 - We Need to Talk About Game of Thrones I Guess

28 juin 2019

Themes are for eighth grade book reports.

Épisode 4 - The Last of the Game of Thrones Hot Takes

14 août 2019

Power doesn't corrupt; power reveals.

Épisode 5 - Woke Disney

30 septembre 2019

So glad they finally made Jasmine a #girlboss.

Épisode 6 - How To Get A Book Deal in Ten Years or Less

7 décembre 2019

Épisode 1 - The Most Whitewashed Character Ever

31 janvier 2020

Épisode 2 - Tom Hooper's Les Miserables

3 avril 2020

Tom Hooper is bad and should feel bad.

Épisode 3 - Why is Cats?

3 avril 2020

Épisode 4 - Protest Music of the Bush Era

12 juin 2020

All of the ways the resistance resisted The Man using the power of song in the early 2000's (or… didn’t).

Épisode 5 - Is Titanic Good, Actually?

3 juillet 2020

Thing Good (except Pearl Harbor).

Épisode 6 - Death of the Author 2: Rowling Boogaloo

6 juillet 2020

Épisode 7 - Into The Omegaverse: How a Fanfic Trope Landed in Federal Court

3 septembre 2020

The romance novel nightmare that didn’t exactly rock the courts but was a hot mess regardless.

Épisode 8 - Could Blazing Saddles Be Made Today?

19 octobre 2020

Épisode 9 - Addison Cain's lawyer e-mailed me, and it only got worse from there

23 octobre 2020

Épisode 10 - Why Borat Works Better in 2020

5 décembre 2020

Épisode 1 - Tracing the Roots of Pop Culture Transphobia

22 février 2021

Épisode 2 - Mask Off

15 avril 2021

Épisode 3 - Reevaluating The Little Mermaid before Disney horks up another live action remake

16 juin 2021

Épisode 4 - 9 things I wish I knew before publishing my first novel

13 août 2021

Épisode 5 - How Tropic Thunder Exposes the Sham

1 septembre 2021

This week we apply John G Cawelti’s concept of generic transformation in film to Ben Stiller’s 2008 classic, Tropic Thunder, a movie which marks a change in Hollywood current, but what (if anything) did it actually change?)

Épisode 6 - Narcissism in the MCU

2 septembre 2021

Épisode 7 - Love Never Dies: A Magnificent Musical Trashfire Sequel to Phantom of the Opera

21 octobre 2021

Épisode 1 - How They Adapted Lord of the Rings (the good one)

11 octobre 2022 - 5/5

now you can stop asking me about the big dumb amazon show

Épisode 2 - We Don't Talk About E.T.

22 décembre 2022 - 5/5

It’s been 40 years since Steven Spielberg’s E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was released in movie theaters. And whether you think it’s an earnest science-fiction masterpiece or a huge cringefest, one thing is certain: we don’t talk about it nearly enough.

Épisode 1 - Everyone Loves Guy Fieri (Now)

12 mai 2023 - 5/5

Guy Fieri was America’s most loved cooking personality until, suddenly, he wasn’t. Then, like a miracle, he quickly became everyone’s favorite Smol Bean. Lindsay Ellis asks “why” in this new examination of the Mayor of Flavor Town’s notoriety.

Épisode 2 - Jurassic Park Turns 30

25 août 2023 - 5/5

Steven Spielberg’s classic film Jurassic Park is 30, and no 30th birthday would be complete without pondering one’s existence. Lindsay Ellis is here to break down the movie, the book, its impact on culture, and whether life truly finds a way.

Épisode 3 - The Life and Death of Family-Friendly Las Vegas

29 septembre 2023 - 5/5

a look into a period of history where las vegas thought it could steal disneyland’s market, and failed (or did they???)

Épisode 4 - The Ballad of John and Yoko

23 décembre 2023 - 5/5

The breakup of the Beatles and other things Yoko Ono was not responsible for (and also some things that she was.)

Épisode 1 - My third book Apostles of Mercy is out now so my agent is making me recap my first two

4 juin 2024 - 5/5

Épisode 2 - Yoko and The Beatles

5 juillet 2024 - 5/5

The reasons the Beatles broke up are extremely well documented and even at the height of their animosity none of the band ever blamed Yoko Ono for it - so why is this still a thing?

Épisode 3 - Trying to Make Sense of the X-Men Cinematic Universe Timeline

26 septembre 2024 - 5/5

The release of Deadpool and Wolverine (probably) marks the end of the 24-year run of the X-men cinematic universe, the longest-running single superhero movie continuity to date. Since it is all (technically) supposed to take place in the same timeline (?), Lindsay uses her (admittedly very out of date) X-men expertise to work with Angelina to try to make some sense of the whole thing.