The Solute Book Club: the Book of J, an Introduction
Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. (Cormac McCarthy) The…
Film on the Internet: THE HITCH-HIKER
Ida Lupino’s minimalist noir film The Hitch-Hiker may come to us through some fault in…
Year of the Month: Tom ‘Vomas’ Morton on MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM
Fay Wray’s scream! Fast-talking female reporters! Waxwork-related horror! I bet you’re thinking “I’d have to…
Stuff My Kids Watch: Growing Young Minds with TED-Ed and Logic
My eight-year-old son, Zane, is very into riddles these days. And it’s true that the…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of 1933
The Solute Book Club: REPLAY (hosted by vomas)
Time Loops! These days, if you throw a rock at… haha, just kidding. I bet…
New on DVD and Blu-Ray
A light week elevated significantly by Criterion finally bringing Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind…
Year of the Month: James Williams on NASHVILLE
By the time Robert Altman broke through with M*A*S*H in 1970, he had been directing…
Being A Fan Of Firefly In 2022, or: A Nine Year Late Response To “How To Be A Fan Of Problematic Things”
A few weeks ago, Lila Shapiro published an article in Vanity called “The Undoing Of…
Celebrating the Living: Keith David
You don’t see him first. You hear him first. While it’s possible, given my age,…