Year of the Month: Sweet Smell of Success by Babalugats
We open on New York. Black and white. Shot on location. Night. Some newspaper men…
All God’s Children: John Cage’s Apartment House 1776
(Clearly all the Americana aspects of Ives are in the way of sound coming into…
Chartbusting! 1957
If you’ve ever been around people of another generation or, heaven forbid, young people with…
What’s So Funny About Han?
Anyone who keeps their ear to the ground in the pop culture world surely heard…
THE BOOK OF HENRY
I don’t often see movies I don’t think I’ll like. But sometimes, there comes a film…
The Greatness of THE SHIELD (with a Brief Review of the Pilot)
Apparently, the A. V. Club will be migrating from DISQUS to Kinja this summer (2017),…
Dissolve On (6/4/2017-6/10/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Elliott Carter: the Last Modernist
Pictured: Igor Stravinsky (l.) and Elliott Carter The ideal has many names, and beauty is…
Dissolve On (5/28/2017-6/3/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Cinematography Round-Up Part Thirteen: What Your Favorite Cinematographers Have Planned
Every movie news site (even the dearly-departed mothership), when it covers a upcoming movie, tends…