Year of the Month: Grant Morrison, Part 2
For all its flaws, Doom Patrol is an absolute masterpiece. Morrison was always one of…
Year of the Month: Grant Morrison, Part 1
When I was a kid, one of my favorite Looney Tunes cartoons was Duck Amuck…
Year of the Month: CALVIN AND HOBBES
Calvin and Hobbes left the funny pages shortly after I was born, but I was…
Year of the Month: IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
There’s a million sad stories on the side of the road. Strange how we all…
Year of the Month: The Power of THE AVIATOR
You get a sense of Howard Hughes being Icarus with the waxed wings…He’s gotta fly…
Year of the Month: KING ARTHUR
Originally written for a college course and published on Letterboxd in 2016 Looking at 2004’s…
Year of the Month: FUNERAL
My experience with Funeral doesn’t begin in 2004. I was, after all, eleven. It begins…
Year of the Month: FANTASIA
The Walt Disney Studio is responsible for some of the greatest films of all time,…
MOOD INDIGO: Half Mess, Half Masterpiece
Michel Gondry’s followed his muse to many great successes in his career, but that muse…
Year of the Month: The Transcendent Kitsch of THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
It should be no secret by now that I’m a great lover of kitsch, of…