Modern children's cartoons lack honesty and kindness. They have become a toxic product for both children and adults. But on the eve of the Halloween, Hollywood decided to surprise the parents by releasing “the Addams Family”. It is advertised ... Read more
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Desperate Housewives is an American television series created by Mark Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Its premiere took place on October 3, 2004 on ABC, and the final was shown on May 13, 2012. During this time, 8 ... Read more
Star vs. the Forces of Evil is an American animated TV series created by Disney Television Animation. The world premiere aired on January 18, 2015. On the Russian Disney channel, the cartoon began to broadcast on September 5, 2016. Today, 4 seasons ... Read more
Hollywood movies often have the same patterns, so when a movie goes beyond them, it delights the audience and arouses sincere interest. The unique style, which breaks the usual logic of the "dream factory", made director Quentin Tarantino famous ... Read more
There is such a joke that is too true to laugh at it: “the news on television seems objective until it touches the area in which you have worked for a dozen years.” In the case of cinema, it can be rephrased: "films of famous directors seem to ... Read more
"What is Good" regularly publishes articles with a detailed analysis of the storylines of movies, cartoons and TV shows. Previously, in most of the analyzed works, the main message remained positive, and all negative moments were transmitted to our ... Read more
When science fiction has been replaced by fantasy, the future has been replaced by the past, says historian and social philosopher Andrey Fursov. In an interview with “BUSINESS Online”, he described how “Game of Thrones” blurs the concept of good ... Read more
I had a chance to watch one episode of “House MD” (season 5, episode 16). Before, I've only heard mostly positive reviews about this series. The general story of the episode is as follows: a teenage boy who has genetic mosaicism; both male and ... Read more
Could it be stated that the fiction educates a person? Nobody doubts that literature forms the moral value system of the reader. And it is also practically assured that literature (especially for children) is the most powerful tool for educating ... Read more
With the creation and improvement of computer technology, virtual space has also progressed. From the first slot machines to the latest technologies, we are separated by a completely short period of time, but people's enthusiasm for all this ... Read more
I had got a chance to watch the new fantastic film “Mortal Engines” (2018) the other day. I know that within the framework of the project "What is Good", the attention is seldom focused on the second semantic series or hidden meanings, since the ... Read more
The article presents analyzes of individual series of popular cartoons from the standpoint of assessing their educational message and influence on young viewers. The series were selected using a random number generator. "Tom and Jerry" ... Read more
Preface: This article is intended for professionals, who work with young people according to their professional activities, as well as all for parents who have known that their children spend time watching anime, and decided to study out what effect ... Read more
Superheroes replaced human being heroes “Doesn’t matter where you are, it does matter what you are seeking for”. This phrase is relevant to many areas of our life. Including for cinema, which not so much reflects the reality, as it programs, ... Read more
On the 19-th of June in Moscow the next rock-festival Maxidrom was held after three-years break, the 1,5 h perfomace of the group Rammstein and its leader Till Lindemann became its main event. When reading the Russian press, the Rammstein's visit to ... Read more
The time has passed when most of the children were brought up in fairy tales, carefully transferred from the older generation to the younger one. To replace tales came cartoons, and grandfathers and grandmothers, on whose shoulders in many ways the ... Read more
I’m getting more and more convinced that a superhero myth – both in comics and movies, based on them – is a lengthy, colourful and solemn hymn to Blind Luck. You’d been disabled since childhood, but they chose you for a secret military experiment. ... Read more
The “Peter Rabbit” - is an American animated feature film based on the stories of the English writer Beatrice Potter. The film premiered on February 9, 2018 in the US. The script and direction of the “Peter Rabbit” was performed by an American ... Read more
56 years, 24 films (not including several unofficial pictures), 16 Oscars, dozens of Emmy Awards, BAFTA, etc .; 7 billion dollars from box offices, not counting income from DVD, advertising, sales of related products - and all this is one movie ... Read more
About modern Hollywood cinema it is often said - "the bottom is pierced," showing that there is nowhere else to fall morally. After the release of "Deadpool", "50 Shades of Gray" or "Atomic Blonde" it seemed that it was already the bottom. But there ... Read more