Film on the Internet: TWILIGHT (1998)
Before there were sparkly vampires, there was 1998’s Twilight, an elegiac neo-noir directed by Robert…
Stuff My Kids Watch: LUNA PETUNIA, Yet Another Magical Girl
Honestly, one of the reasons I’m writing about this show is that my son’s best…
Doug’s Cinematic Firsties: Harakiri Is a Jidaigeki Tale That’s All Too Relevant In 2020
Doug’s Cinematic Firsties is a recurring series wherein Douglas Laman (A.K.A. NerdInTheBasement) will review a…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of March 1940
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To Dust We Return: Persia on THE GRAPES OF WRATH in a Pandemic
From the perspective of 2020, it’s hard to believe how quickly John Steinbeck’s novel The…
New on DVD and Blu-Ray
On two very opposite ends of the spectrum, Criterion’s Blu-Ray upgrade of Eric Rohmer’s Six…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of February 1940
Click here to see what’s behind some of these covers!
Year of the Month: The Transcendent Kitsch of THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
It should be no secret by now that I’m a great lover of kitsch, of…
Double Feature: The Office VS Brooklyn 99
Normally, these double features aren’t literally putting the two stories into competition, just comparing and…
Celebrating the Living: Ellen Crawford
Another place ER was good about diversity that doesn’t get talked about much was age.…