Disney Byways: CHARLIE, THE LONESOME COUGAR
Honestly you could get an entire reaction folder out of just shots of Charlie. He’s…
Decade of the Month: Son of Griff on the Black Riders of the Purple Sage
Traditional notions of African American culture in the 1920s are based on urban communities during…
The Pop Reconstruction Of Neil Cicierega’s Mouth Series
As of this writing, musician/animator/internet guy Neil Cicierega has released four albums of mashups. It…
Celebrating the Living: Fanta Régina Nacro
For many Americans, African film is our great blind spot. That and South American. (A…
Attention Must Be Paid: Hank Worden
I am not proud of the fact that Hank Worden made it onto the schedule…
Disney Byways: “Donald’s Golf Game”
Golf. If there is a more quintessential Suburban Upper Middle Class Dude game, I don’t…
The very late and half-assed end-of-year TV writeup for 2021
Today is the five-year anniversary of my first article on the Solute, so it seemed…
Decade of the Month: SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS
All in all, F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise has an almost mythic sense of beauty and power.…
Decade of the Month: Tom “vomas” Morton on GO WEST
Buster Keaton loves an underdog. Most of his protagonists are down on their luck, or…
Taco Break: Getting Thirty
Harry Bailey (Elliot Gould), protagonist of Getting Straight, is thirty. He’s old enough to be…