Disney Byways: SPLASH and the Rise of Touchstone
Policy in this column has long been “if it isn’t released by Disney, it doesn’t…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of February 1984
The Friday Article Roundup Has Become Unstuck in Time
The past returns in re-reinvestigations of murder and political television ads! The future looms in…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of January 1984
The TOP SECRET! of Success (Year of the Month)
Surely the time for apologies about Top Secret! and its inferiority to Airplane! is over…
The best original songs of 1961, according to the Academy
Last month the Ploughman made a smart observation about the pattern of nominees in this…
Binging Before It Goes
I am, as I’ve written about before, a passionate advocate of physical media. One of…
Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on JUDY AT CARNEGIE HALL
They called it “the greatest night in show business history”, because of course they did—it…
It Was a Special Feeling: Helen Reddy, 1941-2020
I am the only person who liked the original Pete’s Dragon better. I’m aware of…
Film on the Internet: PURPLE NOON
As the physical centerpiece of Purple Noon, René Clément’s adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley,…