Life Before STAR WARS: Dead Genres
A Bridge Too Far doesn’t really have much in common with Star Wars, but in…
Year of the Month: Persia on BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING
Parenting is terrifying. The author Philip Baruth once described dropping your young child off at…
Film on the Internet: MARATHON MAN (1976) on Amazon Prime
“It isn’t safe.” Not far below their surfaces and sometimes on them, the thrillers of…
Year of the Month: Shakespressionism
There must have been something in the water in 1948. Maybe it was the combination…
“Continue down your mistaken path”: SPARTACUS (1960)
They don’t make them like Spartacus anymore, an overstuffed, overlong pileup of gorgeous, funny, tearjerking,…
Gone Girls: The Disappearing Woman in 1940s Cinema
A naive young woman follows her husband to his small hometown. A man must defend…