Disney Byways: “Aquamania”
I think the purge of shorts from YouTube has begun. This would bother me less…
The Year in Gimmicks: Vomas on William Castle’s 1961
The golden age of the B-movie gave us a few directors whose actual filmmaking was…
Year of the Month: Babalugats on UNDERWORLD U.S.A.
I once saw a movie like that. All about revenge. Ex-con’s revenge. Very touching. Only…
Celebrating the Living: Laura Dern
It has long been my policy to write about the famous parent before writing about…
Attention Must Be Paid: Guy Williams
Apparently, his birth last name means “person from Catalonia.” Which is now in Spain. So…
Disney Byways: THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR
Hard for me to believe I haven’t gotten to this one yet; it feels very…
Year of the Month: THE MISFITS and Hollywood Modernism
The Misfits epitomizes a certain type of Hollywood modernist aesthetic: a film about Big Ideas…
Year of the Month 1961: One Hundred and One Dalmatians and the Second Act of Marc Davis
It’s strange to think of The Walt Disney Company as an entity intimately familiar with…
YOJIMBO: A Movie in Two Worlds by Persia
One man approaches ten, as dust blows dramatically. The two opponents—one ronin, one criminal gang—step…
Taco Break: The Knocked Out Loaded Part
Everybody makes mistakes. The most notoriously disliked section of The Shield outside of a certain…