Year of the Month: Sunil Patel on CAT BALLOU
I don’t like Westerns…except for all the Westerns I like. No matter how many Westerns…
A Soderbergh Escapade: LET THEM ALL TALK
In 2019, 30 years and about 30 movies after sex, lies, and videotape, Steven Soderbergh…
CITIZEN KANE: T for Technique and T for Tragedy
Citizen Kane is the greatest movie ever made, but it’s not the greatest movie Orson…
Taco Break: The Five Tools of Acting (from Babalugats)
Preamble When I was a child some of the first movie arguments I would get…
Year Of The Month: Ghostbusters of Fire by Miller
Cities existing on the edge of reality and unreality, grunge and gloss side by side.…
New on DVD and Blu-Ray
Criterion’s recent influx of very new titles has raised some questions of when the time…
The best original songs of 1961, according to the Academy
Last month the Ploughman made a smart observation about the pattern of nominees in this…
True Crime: Streets Of LA and the Art of Following the Leader
Some works can be considered pioneers, inventing – or at least popularising and codifying –…
Year of the Month: Miller on THE CAPTURE
The Capture is a divided movie about a divided man. John Sturges films Niven Busch’s…
“A Man Alone”: John Bruni and Son of Griff on THE BREAKING POINT and TRY AND GET ME! (Year of the Month)
JB: Noir has always challenged dominant cultural values, and, at times, can capture the light…