Halloween Psych-Out – Part 6: PERFORMANCE
What’s a Halloween-appropriate film without a bracing dose of the occult? How about a 1970…
The Faces of . . . Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy’s 1877 Russian masterpiece Anna Karenina has been called — including by such luminaries…
Summer Of Nathan: The Simpsons (Classic)
Summer Of Nathan is a tribute to the work of former Dissolve (and current freelance)…
The Faces of . . . Jean Valjean.
One of the most adapted novels in world cinema is Victor Hugo’s 1862 masterwork Les…
The Avathoir/Wallflower American Vampire Conversation Installment 8
The Avathoir/Wallflower American Vampire Conversation Installment 8: The Bird of Hermes Warning: this Conversation contains…
Scenic Route: DIE HARD (1988)
Die Hard is a perfect movie. “Perfect” does not equal “great,” although it’s that too;…
Soundtracking #14: SHUTTER ISLAND (2010)
The occasional podcast on music in movies. It’s a bit SPOILERy. Intro music: “Coffee Shop”…
Yin and Yang and Henry James
Humans in general, and artists especially, have a tendency to divide their ideas into opposing…
Halloween Psych-Out – Part 5: HEART OF GLASS
Picking up from where I left off last year, during the Halloween season, I write…
Dissolve On (10/05/2015 – 10/16/2015)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, it’s commenting community had The Solute…