Browsing the "Film Review/Analysis" Category

April 10, 2011 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer Hanna is an awesome film. As a story and entertainment, it is top notch. However, as the message goes I have some stuff to bitch about (as usual),...

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April 3, 2011 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer See Also: Batman: The Dark Knight Rises – Esoteric Analysis Batman Begins marks a substantive renewal for the popular franchise. Taking the story in a much more...

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March 8, 2011 - 0 Comments

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February 27, 2011 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer (2010) Much like Labyrinth, Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal is one of those kid’s films all of us who grew up in the 80s seem to have...

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February 27, 2011 - 0 Comments

By: Peter Parker In a world where queer theory and feminists readings dominate the realm of academia, the analytical method known as esoteric analysis is, sadly, restricted to the outer...

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February 26, 2011 - 0 Comments

[Note: This originally appeared on my old blog a few years ago. The Guardian also wrote a similar piece around that time, however, not connecting it to 9/11 and planned...

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February 26, 2011 - 0 Comments

As outlined in many places on my blog, such as this post, there are scores of such references in films prior to 9/11 that point to planned events and a...

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February 23, 2011 - 0 Comments

The Apollonian/Dionysian Dialectical Dichotomy Contributing writer David Shankle gives yet another angle on Batman: Dark Knight  INDEPTH ESOTERIC ANALYSIS OF “BATMAN BEGINS” HERE   After revisiting Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight, viewing the...

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January 25, 2011 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer Eyes Wide Shut is a film that failed to live to the expectations of many. It was supposed to be an edgy thriller that made statements about...

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January 24, 2011 - 0 Comments

Mattie’s father in True Grit is a mason, and we see here amongst his things a square and compass:...

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January 24, 2011 - 0 Comments

Emma Stone’s new to DVD film, Easy A is a tribute to 80s classics like Say Anything and Sixteen Candles, but it also contains some interesting overlapping synchronicities and hints...

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January 9, 2011 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer I hate to always harp on gnosticism, but it’s undeniably the recurrent theme of most sci fi and fantasy/cult films. Gnosticism is the ancient perennial tradition that descends...

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December 31, 2010 - 0 Comments

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December 17, 2010 - 0 Comments

While watching the 1998 film, “Enemy of the State,” I noticed a curious reference to 9/11. A few others online have noticed this as well. As we showed recently, pre-9/11 film...

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November 18, 2010 - 0 Comments

Revised. 12/8/10 By: Jay Dyer (c) Copyrighted, all right reserved. Old Man is part of a Faulkner work titled The Wild Palms, a collection of two stories; Old Man and...

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November 15, 2010 - 0 Comments

Not that I think God let us down, but this accurately predicts what the “web” will become and what Fakebook is. “The memory card will become the principal artificial limb...

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November 15, 2010 - 0 Comments

Usually I end up disagreeing with a lot of ‘conspiracy’ sites’ analyses of symbolism. One good example is the All-Seeing Eye and the pyramid. For example, Solomon says in Proverbs...

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November 10, 2010 - 0 Comments

This is a must-see documentary on the illusions and magical trickery of the mass media. http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTc5NTU4MDY4.html...

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November 6, 2010 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Donnie Darko is, on its most basic level, a film that is homage to 80s culture. It’s a cult classic (like many 80s films!) that references other 80s films, uses popular 80s...

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October 25, 2010 - 0 Comments

By: Peter Parker So, I got dragged by a friend to go and see the film Paranormal Activity 2, despite the fact that I never saw the first Paranormal Activity....

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