The Works of Zachary Robert Long
The mystery genre can largely be divided into three categories: Who did it?, How do it?, and Why do it? Each category requires the author or filmmaker to hide certain information from the audience: Se7en (1995) hides the who but gives the how and why. In Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) we…
When Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) was released onto Netflix this January, my family had to watch. It had been nearly twenty years since the last Wallace and Gromit feature film had been released, and sixteen years since the last short. The movie was an absolute delight, very charming. But there was one…
“Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind” – Douglas MacArthur Grammar is the mortar of the English language we use when building meaning through the use of words, sentences, and paragraphs. For many people, it is such a powerful tool as to be…