“A Good Actor Is A Terrible Thing To Waste”: 6 More Perfectly Good Actors Wasted In Subpar Superhero Movies
Well, this worked out pretty well last time, so why don’t I take a take…
New Modes for Old Truths: Les Blank and the Living Past
Les Blank’s documentaries cover a range of subjects but keep coming back to some fundamental…
Celebrating the Living: Thelma Schoonmaker
It’s not an original observation, but one of the problems with the assertion that “women…
Seduction of the Innocent: The Comics Scare and the Red Scare
We all probably would have been better off if Dr. Fredric Wertham had stuck to…
In Case I Don’t See Ya: A Brief Anaylsis on THE TRUMAN SHOW
If the following essay reads very “school regulated” like, that’s because this was written for…
The Avathoir/Wallflower American Vampire Conversation, Installment 10
Interlude Warning: Like all Conversations in this series, this contains SPOILERS. wallflower: One of the…
Celebrating the Living: Steve Martin
I’m hesitant of the concept of the lifetime pass. Everyone, no matter how great, can…
A Warning That’s Already Too Late: The Dystopian Satire of HIGH RISE
High-Rise ends with “Industrial Estate,” a song by the post-punk iconoclasts The Fall. That just…
Tune in Next Week: BUCK ROGERS, Chapter Twelve: “War of the Planets”
Tune in Next Week is an ongoing feature, examining serials one chapter at a time.…
Bad Films Shot By Great Cinematographers: HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2
Who Shot It: Declan Quinn. Quinn was born in Chicago but moved to Ireland with…