Cooking Up Some Pop Culture
When I was a child, my parents had a tradition that they would buy us…
Presenting Movie Gifts July 2021!
Join us for our annual celebration of the birth and death of The Dissolve, a movie website…
Taco Break: Does the Dog Die?
In a conversation this week with Man with a Robot Arm and Miller the subject came up…
I Have Had It With These Monkey-Fighting Snakes on This Monday Through Friday Plane!: Expletive For Broadcast
American culture has a weird connection with swearing. We do it a lot, and we…
Loving the Long Long Man: Narrative in Commercials
When I was a kid, there was an instant coffee brand that made a series…
Lunch Links: DRAMATIC AND MILD
High art, low rent. Dramatic and Mild (2018) dir. Nastia Korkia Musings on the intersection…
You Know, For Kids
Technically, Rashomon did not have a Rashomon plot. As in, the plot is not the…
Coping, or Not
This year, I have seen fewer Oscar nominees than any year since I started paying…
Taco Break: They Didn’t Make ’em Like They Do Now
Movie fans spend a decent amount of time bemoaning the types of movies that don’t…
Geek Parenting
My son does his distance learning from my room, because we discovered early in the…