The Solute Record Club: PJ Harvey – RID OF ME
This writing was originally placed on this article for The Dissolve, but has been relocated here…
STRANGERLAND
The initial setup for Strangerland couldn’t possibly get any more familiar: a small-town teenage girl with…
“Continue down your mistaken path”: THE SHINING (1980)
Horror is a genre made for formalists. (Noel Murray) Coming back to the The Shining…
“Continue down your mistaken path”: BARRY LYNDON (1975)
Crime does pay, just not very well. (Matchstick Men) Barry Lyndon feels like one of…
What Makes You Cry?
“It’s only a TV show.” —my mom, as I cried over the last episode of…
“Continue down your mistaken path”: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
Everything Stanley Kubrick learned went into the making of 2001, and he made something utterly…
SIFF Day 17: The Masks We Wear
Fourth Man Out is a new comedy about coming out in a middle-class environment to…
SIFF Days 13-15: Code-Switching
The conversation surrounding the “gay voice” has been shadowed and loaded. Shadowed by the specter…
“Continue down your mistaken path”: DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)
I am troubled by the feeling which runs all through the film, of discredit and…
Before BIRDMAN: Films about Actors – Part 5: SUNSET BOULEVARD
Sunset Boulevard (1950) is about how the motivations for actors can get really twisted. Released…