Movie Gifts Holiday 2020: The Unwrapping
The holiday season is over. We’ve even passed Twelfth Night, the twelfth day of Christmas.…
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The Friday Article Roundup Recoils in Horror
The FAR opened what it thought was a box of delicious ‘Nilla Wafers and it…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of January 1996
You Know not the Day nor the Hour: DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD as the Movie of 2020
[Fair warning – many spoilers ahead, and as documentaries go, Dick Johnson is quite spoilerable]…
The Moments of 2020
More so than other years, this doesn’t feel like a complete list. The virus kept…
So this is what it’s like to be an adult: Pearl Jam, NO CODE
Pearl Jam had one of the strangest careers of any of the major grunge acts…
I’ll Get Around To It
Fans of every medium have The List. Some are more meticulous about it than others;…
Film on the Internet: THIEF (1981)
Michael Mann’s Thief is a beauty to behold. It’s his feature film debut, but it…
20th century, go to sleep: R.E.M., NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI
New Adventures in Hi-Fi marks the end of an era. As the title quote, from…
Even Worse Ecology in THE LION GUARD
No, I don’t look to Disney for perfect accuracy in zoology. Of course I don’t.…