Year of the Month: The Swamp Never Drains in Drunken Angel by Eric Vilas-Boas
So many of Akira Kurosawa’s films are morality plays — Rashomon about the limits of…
Celebrating the Living: Jamie Farr
One of the things about M*A*S*H was that it showed that, yes, these people would…
Attention Must Be Paid: Shirley Walker
Look, I’m not going to dispute that the Danny Elfman Batman score is iconic. In…
Disney Byways: MELODY TIME
The problem with package films is that they’re uneven. Yes, even Fantasia—it’s good, but it’s…
Celebrating the Living: Loretta Swit
There are, for those of us who’ve watched a lot of the show, little markers…
Attention Must Be Paid: Drive-In Theatres
Summer is ending, here in the Pacific Northwest. School has started; the leaves are changing…
Disney Byways: “Paperman”
As we walked out of Wreck-It Ralph, I said, “Well, the movie was pretty good,…
Kill Bill Feels
Spoilers ahead. “I knew what would happen to Mommy if I shot her. What I…
The Faces of . . . Jack Ryan
When Tom Clancy’s first novel, The Hunt for Red October, was released through the tiny…
Year of the Month: Tom “vomas” Morton on Letter from an Unknown Woman
Stefan Zweig’s 1922 novella Brief einer Unbekannten is one of those stories that has inspired…