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The Solute Canon: Miller on GRIZZLY
The Solute Canon Series: An exploration of films and other cultural touchstones outside the traditional…
“Just do the work, pal. You’ll be all right”: TED LASSO season two
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.…
The D-Bag: Babalugats on TURN IT UP
Since Cinemascore began operation in 1979 only 14 films, give or take, have received the…
Year of the Month: Deconstructing 1971 – TWO-LANE BLACKTOP/THE LAST MOVIE
The cultural shorthand for early-70s American filmmaking is that directors had a significant degree of…
Double Feature: Reality Bites 2 — The Legend of Reality’s Gold (by Miller)
I usually write Double Features at the beginning of a year, looking back at the…
THE DEKALOG Ranked by Dekalogishness (Year of the Month)
Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog aired on Polish television in 1989, a limited series of the kind…
Broken Art for Sale: EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
On a frequent drive on southbound Interstate 29 there used to be an overpass with…
Year of the Month: Losing Time in CERTIFIED COPY
Juliette Binoche has a knack for taking us to emotionally-layered places. As Elle, in the…
Thanks to Florence Pugh and vulnerability, Black Widow packs an enjoyable punch
It’s not revelatory to say but this should have happened a long time ago. A…
Freddy Got Fungooed: Widespread Panic by James Ellroy (with John “Son of Griff” Anderson)
For all readers and Ellroy fans out there: John and Grant co-hosted a LIVE reading…