At the heart of the advertisements for Barry Levinson’s new satire, Rock the Kasbah, is…
Film on the Television (10/26/16): V For Vendetta on HBO2
Beginning in 1982, Alan Moore wrote V For Vendetta, a comic eviscerating Thatcherite England by pitching…
Film on the Television (10/19/15): She-Devil on MGMHD
Throughout the 1980s, Roseanne Barr had been working her way up the stand-up circuit with…
Online Wonders: THE VAULT
Aaron Hann and Mario Miscione’s debut film Circle premieres today on Netflix. Circle is a lean, mean machine…
EXPERIMENTER: THE STANLEY MILGRAM STORY
The behavioral tests of the 1960s, seeking to understand the psychology behind the Holocaust, have…
THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER
Dear old people, please turn off your goddamned phones. If your phone rings once in…
CIRCLE (2015)
Circle is a Netflix exclusive, premiering on October 16 At the heart of Reality Television…
Film on the Television (10/16/2015): The Bad Seed on Turner Classic Movies
Some legendary movies are build with mediocre performances. The Bad Seed is a decent film built around…
Jim Crow and Pink Face
In 2014, I wrote about the concept of Pink Face: the phenomenon of non-queer actors taking…
ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF CANNON FILMS
The 1980s were defined by excess. If the 1960s could be defined by rebellion, and…