The extension of Hulk’s metaphor
The Incredible Hulk is, perhaps, the most challenging of the mainstream comic book superheroes. He…
In Defense of a Shaggy Dog Story
One of my mother’s few extravagances after my dad died was cable TV. The Disney…
Beyond the Idiot Plot
Roger Ebert defined an “idiot plot” as a movie where the whole thing could be…
Teaching by Bad Example
A common tactic in the history of film has been the “what not to do”…
Movies by the Fives: April 1985
This segment of The Solute looks at 5 movies that came out this month in…
How DreamWorks Animation Lost Its Way
When I was kid, growing up at the dawn of the 21st century, there was…
The Hollywood Calendar
Actually, the backward sliding of blockbuster season would have been of some benefit to me…
Regular Quoting or BQ?
With a little thought, I believe I could come up with a list of maybe…
“Continue down your mistaken path”: Stanley Kubrick’s films, an introduction
“I thought you’d regained interest in human life.” “I have. I think perhaps I’ll create…
Hollywood Crazy Person Syndrome
So I read in my local newspaper today that one of the mental hospitals in…