New on DVD and Blu-Ray
A strong week with one earlyish release-of-the-year contender, Criterion’s box set of the complete works…
Pictures of a Revolution: 2002
Welcome to Pictures of a Revolution, a year-by-year study of the output of Revolution Studios. This…
My Time in the Trenches of TV Tropes
As you may well know, TV Tropes is a massive wiki dedicated to collecting examples…
Year of the Month: Krazy Kat in THE HOT CHA MELODY
You probably know George Herriman’s Krazy Kat: the newspaper comic strip that forward-thinking critic Gilbert…
Celebrating the Living: Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison is very clear that their feelings about their gender identity have lasted since…
Attention Must Be Paid: Chantal Akerman
I feel a little guilty about writing about Chantal Akerman for Pride. You see, she…
Disney Byways: “The Pied Piper”
One of these days, I’ll get around to a full-length article about the use of…
The Friday Article Roundup: Take a Look, It’s in a Book
The FAR has absorbed all written human knowledge, but you puny fleshlings still have much…
Lunch Links: LOCKDOWN
Lockdown (2019) – dir. Logan George, Celine Held The things we do for love. Happy…
From Live Action Short to Cartoon Violence
It’s popular to refer to certain movies as “live action cartoons.” Doubtless when Mousetrap, for…