Taco Break: Getting Thirty
Harry Bailey (Elliot Gould), protagonist of Getting Straight, is thirty. He’s old enough to be…
New Hollywood Got Old
Well, that movie made me feel totally irrelevant to anything that any audience could want…
Taco Break: The Future of Silver-haired Cinema
This week my local arthouse cinema continues a few showings of Everything Everywhere All at Once,…
The King of Miscasting
That Morgan Freeman is technically miscast as Red in The Shawshank Redemption is a hill…
The Calculus of Movie Decisions
It’s true that we have not been inside a movie theatre in more than two…
Lunch Links: HOW TO DISAPPEAR
Content warning: Unreal but nonetheless violent imagery. How to Disappear (2020) dir. Total Refusal (aka Michael…
Faust–You Know, For Kids
Now, it’s true that The Muppet Show was never really a kids’ show. “Family,” we…
The Friday Night Death Slot
For many people of my generation, our first experience of the phenomenon known as “the…
Disco Stu Returns, or Why Our Favourites Are Obscure
Disco Stu exists for one silly joke. Homer made a jacket that was supposed to…
Sings in Foreign Language
As we’ve long established, I watch a lot of educational programming with my kids. This…