Year of the Month: Art and Artifice (and Elmer Fudd)
Art in general and animation in particular tend to showcase two opposite impulses. One is to record reality as faithfully as possible and make the art seemingly real. The other…
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Imitation of Life Is an Emotional Haymaker
Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life has a way of sneaking up on you. At first,…
Film on the Disc: SCORCHY
Ugetsu Shows The Price We Pay For Too Much Escapism (Sight & Sound Voyage)
Film on the Disc: ANOTHER EVIL
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Passion and Pastries, Lovefest 2017: MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
This may sound twee, but Wong Kar-Wai doesn’t make films: he makes daydreams. Really, though,…
The Visuals In Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets Are Glorious But Why Did They Have To Be In Service Of Such A Clunky Story?
It’s All Fun and Games… 8 X 8: A CHESS-SONATA IN 8 MOVEMENTS (Year of the Month)
War For The Planet Of The Apes Is A Captivating & Grim Work Of Art
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New on DVD and Blu-Ray
The Criterion sale rages on, and Criterion has so kindly provided yet another title to…
Dunkirk Goes To War With Tremendous Opening Weekend, Girls Trip Hits The Road With Major Box Office And Valerian Stumbles
Tommy Wiseau, Sea Monsters, Chilly Murderers And Madea Abound In A Bunch Of New Movie Trailers
Steven Soderbergh shot a secret movie on an iPhone
Articles and Opinions »
The Simple Pleasure of a Rewatch
I have a season of 3rd Rock From the Sun out from the library right…
LIFE (2015)
Daniel Tiger’s Cult
Taco Break: Problematic
Other Media »
The Spiral: Avathoir and wallflower Talk About Thomas Pynchon, 3: The Crying of Lot 49
. . .I began to see Gabriel García Márquez in a new light, as a social realist. (Joan Didion, Salvador) wallflower: For a long time, my view of this was…
