Film on the Television: NEW YORK, NEW YORK on MGMHD
I really REALLY wasn’t going to write about musicals again today. I just did a…
Film on the Internet: SOUTH PARK: BIGGER LONGER & UNCUT on Netflix
Once upon a time, I knew every fucking word to every fucking song in this…
Film on the Internet: THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT on FilmStruck
MGM’s 1952 musical Singin’ In The Rain is practically an outlier in the world of classic…
Film on the Internet: HAIRSPRAY on Netflix
When I was just a little Julius, I was obsessed with a movie I only…
Film on the Internet: FOOTLOOSE on Netflix
In 1980, a small town in Oklahoma faced a “scandal” so old fashioned that People…
Taco Break: Nostalgia for Nostalgia about Anti-Nostalgia
In 1950’s science fiction and horror movies, Hollywood used a formula called The Old Dark House as…
BAD APPLES
This past weekend, Seattle’s ACT Theater just finished the second production of Bad Apples, a new…
Film on the Internet: GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES on Netflix
*cough cough* Excuse me. So, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a Howard Hawks joint…wait what? Howard Hawks…
Forgotbusters: The Early Years | The Gang’s All Here by Ryan Swen
The name “Busby Berkeley” is practically synonymous with the extravagant Hollywood musicals of the…
New Modes for Old Truths: HAMILTON and Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton is my motherfucker. In 25 years of studying and teaching the story of…