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The right stuff
On May 14, 2018, Tom Wolfe — one of America’s most exuberant writers — died at the age of 88. Among his litany of...
Beyond notorious
RBG, the latest documentary from Julie Cohen and Betsy West, opens with images of Washington D.C. accompanied by sound bites from conservative talk radio...
How we got here
What good does it, writing about classic films?
If it’s covering an undiscovered gem or a movie never properly released, that’s one thing. But to...
It’s a hard world for a little thing
Ah, little lad, you’re staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand?
1930s West Virginia: A condemned...
Enjoy the silence
This Friday, Marvel Studios releases Avengers: Infinity Wars, a massive movie that will, reportedly, tie-up 10 years and 18 installments worth of narrative threads...
I am (not) a number
Who is Number One?
So asks Number Six, the prisoner, played by actor and show co-creator, Patrick McGoohan. And so asked the hoards of TV...
Wherefore art thou, Magilla Gorilla?
San Andreas and Jurassic Park III were provided abstinence-only education, didn’t use intellectual property protection and had an illegitimate Rampage baby. Oh yeah, while...
A knife in the water and the snakes in the grass
In the history of cinema, there are few feature debuts as mysterious, haunting and assured as Roman Polanski’s Knife in the Water. Yes, that...
Celebrate the past; anticipate the future
According to the website womenandhollywood.com, founded in 2007 by Melissa Silverstein, less than half (34 percent) of all 2017 speaking roles went to female...
Kaiju goo goo
Oscar-winning fish pornographer Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim was a just-fine endeavor hailed as near-sexually-satisfying by a vocal community blessed/cursed with low expectations. Pacific...
Out of the past
Mamma Roma has paid her dues and done her time. For nearly 30 years, she walked the sweaty streets of Rome, turning tricks and...
Noir, now more than ever
Noir: when they first started making them, they didn’t even have a name for them.
Born from a literary movement popularized by Dashiell Hammett, James...
