Hour 21: A Film and Interactive Media Blog

  Lilo & Stitch 2025: The Art of Conversation and the Love of Family “Now make up with your sister, yeah. If you need anything just ask okay. We're not just neighbors. You know, we're ohana." “People treat me differently.” “Aww baby, they just… they just don't know what to say?" “But you… didn't mean what you said, did you? ” “No, of course not, you're my sister and I'll always be here for you, got it.” -Lilo and Stitch, 2025 To be honest, it must be difficult to be a filmmaker, extraordinarily so, in today's popular climate of remakes and reimagining. This has to be exponentially more true when taking into account the legacy of an intellectual property or film studio. Where does one start in reimagining a classic, when from all angles you know in your heart of hearts it will turn out to be a fruitless endeavor. Mocked by fans of the original and chastised by newcomers as simple and uninspired. By all appearances you are trapped in the cy...

  The Walking Dead season 2 Episode 7: Pretty Much Dead Already “But the world out there isn't what you saw on TV, it is much, much worse and it changes you. Either into one of them or into something a lot less than the person you were.” . “Is this about you and the Asian boy?” “No… His name is Glenn. He saved my life yesterday, and one of the people you think are sick tried to kill me. How's that for dramatic? Things aren't what you think they are, they aren't.” -The Walking Dead season 2, Episode 7 There are moments that we will remember, and then there are moments, and then there are moments that we think we remember. Though that memory is usually tainted either by hindsight or the obscuring vision of rose tinted glasses. Then there are monoliths, moments in time run that become so synonymous with the concept of popular culture that we begin to misread its impact, as just The luck of the draw, rather than a turning point in the popular consciousness. That al...