ALI (2001): The Mann in the Ring
Ali expires from Netflix Streaming on September 1st. Check it out while you can. Few…
Michael Guarnieri
Michael Guarnieri is a writer and photographer currently living in Chicago.
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Articles:
Do you, or should you, bring outside baggage to the movies?
Julius Kassendorf: One of the constant conversations is whether bringing politics and/or outside life to…
The World Belongs to Savages: The Crime Films of Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone is one of the most famous and distinctive living directors in American film.…
The Good, the Bad, and the Miscast – PART III: The Untouchable
Part one Part two The most difficult type of miscasting to pinpoint is that which…
The Good, the Bad, and the Miscast – PART II: The Calamity of Celebrity
Part one here: https://www.the-solute.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-miscast-part-i-the-physics-of-miscasting/ Miscasting, type two: The Celebrity Problem It is a truth universally acknowledged…
The Good, the Bad, and the Miscast – PART I: THE PHYSICS OF MISCASTING
The dread M-word. Miscasting. We’ve all heard of it. We’ve probably all accused some film…
The Private Lives of Public Enemies: Love and Other Crimes in CASINO and THE PUBLIC ENEMY
I could lie and pretend that I don’t know why I love gangster movies, but…
Fun at the International Box Office
Living in the United States, one can very easily forget that there are, in fact,…