The Year in Review: Rewriting the Formula
Due to Covid, I didn’t write a review for last year, because I wasn’t able…
Year of the Month: THE MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO. and HAHA SOUND
Imagine a split-screen image with rural Northeast Ohio on one side and Birmingham, UK on…
Miller’s Double Features: Going Solo
Mr. Narrator! This is Bob Dylan to me My story could be his songs… —…
Devil Man Running In My Head: Miller on ASTRO-CREEP 2000
This album fucking owns. That’s it. That’s all you need. OK, I’ll try to explain…
GORDY: 1995’s Other White Meat
Even in the 90s, an era before most popular movies were manufactured to look the…
Uncertain Times in SAFE
Safe doesn’t exactly know what ails Carol, but writer/director Todd Haynes is keenly aware of…
Miller’s Double Features: Girls on Film
Note: This article contains massive spoilers for and summaries of The Ring and Lake Mungo,…
Humans Have Only One Ending, Ideas Live Forever: A Solute Discussion on BARBIE
On the heels of Barbie’s release on DVD – and an epic personal account by The…
“You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you?” The Solute discusses the shifting horrors of the ALIEN films
Note: This has been slightly edited for clarity and focus Going on a bug hunt…
Year of the Month: Reconstructing HUSBANDS
Husbands (1970) is a fascinating look at director John Cassavetes’s artistic process. Shot in 1969,…