Attention Must Be Paid: Mario Bava
For those of you playing Horror Month bingo at home, mark “I’m not really a…
Disney Byways: “Cat Nap Pluto”
Last night, I went out of my way to make sure our cat was inside…
Hidden Mental Illness
Alan Ruck as Cameron was playing a mentally ill person. This is a hill I…
Year of the Month: Oliver Miller on BABYLON REVISITED
By the time he wrote “Babylon Revisited,” F. Scott Fitzgerald was pretty well fucked. It’s…
SCENIC ROUTE: LOST, Season Six, Episode One, “LA X”: “Isn’t that the saddest thing you ever heard? But it’s fitting in a way.”
Any story allowed to go long enough will eventually become about itself. This can be…
Celebrating the Living: Brendan Fraser
Possibly the thing I’m proudest of in my decades-long history of Writing About Pop Culture…
Attention Must Be Paid: Lurene Tuttle
Every once in a while this column or the other reveals a hidden Hollywood dynasty.…
Disney Byways: “The Castaway”
They can’t all be winners. Honestly animation as a medium was still finding its footing…
Taco Break: And Seinfeld Begat Always Sunny
I absolutely love tracking the genealogy of fiction – I love that you can follow…
Celebrating the Living: Fairuza Balk
I have actually seen two Fairuza Balk movies in the theatre, both deeply disturbing in…