Dissolve On (11/5/2017-11/11/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Attention Must Be Paid: Sally Menke
I’ve got to level with you—this is someone I don’t have a specific mental image…
Disney Byways: Mary Blair
Mary Blair died in 1978, shortly after I was born, and I didn’t know who…
Year of the Month: Tom “vomas” Morton on The Shout
We watch films for a variety of reasons. Word of mouth, a desire to keep…
Year of the Month: Dixon Cashwell on Halloween
To call John Carpenter’s Halloween “rarified” is a laughable understatement. Near forty years after its…
Chartbusting! 1978
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Year of the Month: Joseph J. Finn on Splinter of the Mind’s Eye
Let’s all step into the Wayback Machine for a second, dear readers. We’re going back…
Celebrating the Living: Judi Dench
She’s one of the people to whom I mentally append their title as though it…
Dissolve On (10/29/2017-11/4/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Attention Must Be Paid: Jack Elam
It isn’t just the eye, though goodness knows the eye is distinctive enough. (Apparently, someone…