Year Of The Month – Greetings From Ashbury Park, NJ
This isn’t a great record, I want to make that clear. My dad might disagree…
CM Crockford
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Articles:
The Whole Country’s Been Drinking: Mad Men Season Three
“Wee Small Hours” “You people.” Power dynamics are the engine of Mad Men and they…
Year Of The Month: Witch’s Cradle
Maya Deren, the director of Witch’s Cradle, is certainly a candidate for Gillian’s Attention Must…
Year Of The Month: The Dark Knight
“The die is cast.” – Julius Caesar “You either die a hero, or you live…
Year Of The Month – In The Wee Small Hours
The cover of In The Wee Small Hours features a painting of Frank Sinatra leaning…
Year Of The Month – The Wild Bunch
The people who believe that Peckinpah and The Wild Bunch are exclusively pro-violence, that the…
Westworld, Mystery Boxes, And Prestige Whispering
Numerous Westworld spoilers for season one, so tread carefully. I come not to praise or…
Year Of The Month – Heist
“Your man does good work.” “That’s why I use him.” The first shot of Heist…
Videodrome: The Retina of The Mind’s Eye
“”The TV Camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of…
Year Of The Month – Steamboat Bill Jr.
The last twenty minutes of Steamboat Bill Jr. are some of the greatest moments of…