Attention Must Be Paid: Bob Hoskins
When Stephen Fry, Samuel L. Jackson, and Helen Mirren stand up at your funeral to…
Disney Byways: Lesser Characters
The other day, I received a Humphrey the Bear pin in the mail. Of the…
Year of the Month: Doug Wykstra on THE BIG SLEEP and LADY IN THE LAKE
“People don’t talk to me like that!” In both 1946 Raymond Chandler adaptations, a woman…
Year of the Month: Owning the Night Life in THE MAN I LOVE
The Man I Love has a memorable first scene: when they hear the music playing…
Stuff My Kids Watch: A Skewed Perspective on Farm Life With SHAUN THE SHEEP
Every once in a while, my kids will develop a fixation on something from before…
Taco Break: Good Answers
It’s widely understood that answers are less interesting than mysteries. Whatever Christmas present you get…
Celebrating the Living: Richard E. Grant
It literally does not matter what I see Richard E. Grant in. Invariably, my first…
Attention Must Be Paid: Marion Davies
Orson Welles said that Marion Davies was not the inspiration for Susan Alexander Kane. Marion…
Disney Byways: MAKE MINE MUSIC
The package films are uneven. Even Fantasia has sequences that some people like more than…
Solute Book Club: IF ON A WINTERS NIGHT A TRAVELER…
You have now finished Italo Calvino’s If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler…