How Do You Solve a Problem Like a Pipeline?
I considered putting up a regular ol’ review of the newly released indie thriller How…
This Will Clear Out All the Bad Toxins: J. John Aquino’s Solute Gifts Soundtracks feat. STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE and THE FAREWELL
(Contains some textual spoilers for The Farewell and a video essay full of spoilers from the movie.)…
Miller’s 2022 Double Features: Ancient Memories of the Future
Movies talk to each other. What did the films of 2022 have to say? This…
Year of the Month: The Fiasco of MARGARET
Author’s note: A version of this essay originally appeared as part of Lovefest 2016, a…
The Friday Article Roundup: Naval Gazing
This Week You Will Have Your Timbers Shivered By: good “guy” movies bad Oscar years…
A Soderbergh Escapade: MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE
Steven Soderbergh is back at the helm of the Magic Mike franchise, and somehow him…
The Best TV of 2022, Part 5
Here we finally reach the end of our countdown. Some of these shows will be…
The (belated) Solute Year In Review: 2022
I often wonder how many lurkers The Solute has. I used to lurk on a…
The Moments of 2022
Where were you, they’ll ask, when the Streaming Wars wound down and Cinema Day was…
Year of the Month: Miller on MOSTLY HARMLESS
What we call the internet — a word that at root describes connection more than…