It Was You That I Burn For: The Standards of FEMALE TROUBLE
When it comes to Female Trouble, I am an outsider. I’m one of those heterosexuals…
Agents of Chaos: CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Year of the Month)
It usually begins like this: Céline and Julie Go Boating is one of cinema’s greatest…
Year of the Month: Three Ways of Looking at THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE
As a Set of Dichotomies, a Way to Break Expectations, and a Personal Audience Identification…
Not Quite Normal: Persia on The Cracked Brilliance of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Was there, will there ever be, a man better at going from quiet neurosis to…
Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT
Before his career became defined by the twin pillars of The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s…
Year of the Month: Sunil Patel on THE CONVERSATION
For me, art is communication, and all art is inherently in conversation with everything that…
Year of the Month 1974: Blazing Saddles
Political Correctness Is Ruining Comedy is back in the news, because there are a lot…
Are You Ready for the World That’s Coming? The Year of the Month in Kirby
After creating about half the Marvel Universe (by a conservative estimate), Jack Kirby, fed up…
Year of the Month: Miller on COLD HAND IN MINE
An’ now people just get uglier An’ I have no sense of time.” — Bob…
Year of the Month: Miller on HOUSE OF STAIRS
Beware — this is also a House of SPOILERS. A brain, an athlete, a basket…