Year of the Month: MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
Conventional wisdom is the Western changed forever sometime in the late ‘60s, dividing the genre…
Year of the Month: THE APARTMENT
Content note: Suicide The Apartment is an intimidating project. Writingwise. It’s the Hollywood movie as…
Year of the Month: HITS OF THE ’50S
There are few soul singers, or any singers, as universally beloved as Sam Cooke. But…
Year of the Month: How to Read HOW TO READ DONALD DUCK
At first, How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic might seem…
Year of the Month: HERE COMES THE SUN
You’ll get no argument saying Nina Simone’s a great artist. But like so many of…
Year of the Month: THE BABY HUEY STORY — THE LIVING LEGEND
1971 was an extraordinary year in music history, as the creative explosion of the late…
Disney in Transition: THE LITTLE MERMAID
In 1937, Disney graduated from shorts to features with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.…
Year of the Month: SHUTTER ISLAND
Spoilers ahead Shutter Island seems on the face of it like a textbook minor work…
POPEYE, Part Two: A Study in Segar-ian Storytelling
Popeye begins 1935 in Black Valley, investigating a gang of claimjumpers fed on tainted cactus…
POPEYE, Part One: A Study in Segar-ian Style
90-odd years after he first tromped onto the stage of Thimble Theatre, Popeye’s in a…