Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of January 1950
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The Solute Canon: Drunk Napoleon on Paterson
Biopics about creative people have a cliche scene in which we see the moment when…
Celebrating the Living: William Katt
It seems rare to me that the mother of a second-generation performer in Hollywood is…
Attention Must Be Paid: Coral Browne
I haven’t read her unauthorized biography—This Effing Lady—yet, but it sounds as though Coral Browne…
The Rental Leaves Room For Improvement
This review contains spoilers. Dave Franco’s directorial debut, The Rental, begins with two characters virtually…
Disney Byways: “A Knight For a Day”
In an ordinary year, I would be packing for the Renaissance faire. The first three…
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Year of the Month: CLOSE-UP
Close-Up doesn’t just toe a line between documentary and fiction, it’s agnostic about the line’s…
The Friday Article Roundup Likes What It Likes
If you like Film Observations And lesbians at the bat If you’re not into Stone…
The Solute Canon: Son of Griff on PATERSON
The following is a slightly extended version (thanks to a revelation by Rosy Fingers that…
Year of the Month: TREMORS, or 5 Things B-Movie Makers Need to Remember by Miller
Tremors was released to theaters in January 1990, where it made a profit but largely…