Dissolve On (9/3/2017-9/9/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Dissolve On (8/6/2017-8/12/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Year of the Month: The Wrong Man by John “Son of Griff” Anderson
In 1957, Henry Fonda appeared in two widely divergent depictions of the American criminal justice…
DOUBLE FEATURE: FARGO VS COLLATERAL
I need to get an obvious thought out of the way first. Technically speaking, films…
Celebrating the Living: Joel and Ethan Coen
I asked a bunch of my friends if doing Ethan and Joel Coen in a…
“It’s not murder, it’s ketchup.” — HOT FUZZ and FARGO
Spoilers for Hot Fuzz and Fargo follow Edgar Wright’s modern comedy classic Hot Fuzz, which turns one decade old…
Comic Sublime
The problem is that jokes deal so efficiently with ideas that there is little more…
Julius’ Worst of 2016 (First Half)
I’m going to open this one up with a mea culpa. Though there were some…
HAIL, CAESAR! – Based on a True Fiction
The Hail, Caesar! trailer seems to be the biggest thing to hit the realm of…
Inside the Songs of INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Side B)
Side A can be read here: https://www.the-solute.com/inside-the-songs-of-inside-llewyn-davis-side-a/ 1. “The Death of Queen Jane” The scene: Llewyn…