Talking ‘Bout MY GIRL (Year of the Month)
After a number of years chronicling 90s kids movies for Year of the Month, we…
What’s To Be Done With A Walter White Ego?
“Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.” In conceiving this essay, the initial plan was…
Book On The Shelf: Pet Sematary
Even if I hadn’t had a vague understanding going in that Stephen King’s Pet Sematary was…
Film on the Internet: Patrick Llaguno on CUTTER’S WAY
Have you ever seen that film where Jeff Bridges plays a charming, easygoing layabout who…
Double Features: The Men Who Weren’t There (by Miller)
Sometimes the double features fall in your lap. We had just watched Air — the…
The Solute Book Club: THE GIRL FROM RAWBLOOD
The Girl from Rawblood is a Gothic. Boy, is it ever. That stock bit of…
Year of the Month: “The Greatest Disappointment” – A Reappraisal of LULU
The last song, “Junior Dad,” on Lulu (2011) offers compelling evidence that the collaboration between…
This Will Clear Out All the Bad Toxins: J. John Aquino’s Solute Gifts Soundtracks feat. STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE and THE FAREWELL
(Contains some textual spoilers for The Farewell and a video essay full of spoilers from the movie.)…
Miller’s 2022 Double Features: Ancient Memories of the Future
Movies talk to each other. What did the films of 2022 have to say? This…
Year of the Month: The Fiasco of MARGARET
Author’s note: A version of this essay originally appeared as part of Lovefest 2016, a…