Year of the Month: THE MISFITS and Hollywood Modernism
The Misfits epitomizes a certain type of Hollywood modernist aesthetic: a film about Big Ideas…
Hanging in There
I live, I die, I live again! – Nux, War Boy and probable QAnon acolyte…
Little Stories
I’ll be honest with you—the main reason I didn’t do an obituary of Diana Rigg…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of December 1961
Film on the Internet: RIFIFI
Rififi is all about process. I first watched it in the same weekend I watched…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of November 1961
Year of the Month 1961: One Hundred and One Dalmatians and the Second Act of Marc Davis
It’s strange to think of The Walt Disney Company as an entity intimately familiar with…
New on DVD and Blu-Ray
A big week this week, though slightly less impressive when you consider how much of…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of October 1961
YOJIMBO: A Movie in Two Worlds by Persia
One man approaches ten, as dust blows dramatically. The two opponents—one ronin, one criminal gang—step…