Film on the Internet: COLD IN JULY
Jim Mickle’s Cold in July is a twisty, Southern-fried crime film that seems to have…
The Solute Book Club: If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler… – An Introduction
I am pretty sure that I first encountered Italo Calvino’s If On A Winter’s Night…
Film on the Internet: KLUTE
The actual case in Klute–its ostensible excuse for existing–is slim: abruptly presented and largely backgrounded…
Year Of The Month: Kansas City Confidential
This is an archetypal film noir. I don’t think of myself as someone well-versed in…
Ellroycast #5: The Big Nowhere with Miller
We talk about the second novel of the first L. A. Quartet, The Big Nowhere, the…
Ellroycast #3: The Black Dahlia with Zoë Z. Dean
Further reading: our interview with Zoë herself.
Ellroycast #2: the Public Intellectual
Dissolve On (10/15/2017-10/21/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Film on the Disc: BRAZIL (Year of the Month)
In 1984, Ghostbusters was unearthed to an unsuspecting public. Wait, are you in the Brazil thread? Yeah,…
Film on the Television: HARD TICKET TO HAWAII on TCM
It’s a Hard Ticket To Hawaiiii-iii It’s not paradise all the time It’s a Hard…