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I still watch The Daily Show on television. Actually on cable, not streaming. Which means…
Sixty Years Later, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’s Anti-Capitalist Values Haven’t Aged a Day by Joey Lee (Year of the Month)
Is it just me or did The Treasure of the Sierra Madre age shockingly well?…
Film on the Disc: HOBSON’S CHOICE
This is a surprising film–a matter-of-fact and dry comedy about a woman working to define…
FAHRENHEIT 11/9
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite. All of which are American dreams.…
Year of the Month: Shakespressionism
There must have been something in the water in 1948. Maybe it was the combination…
New on DVD and Blu-Ray
After a few weeks of slimmer pickings, it’s as if every company got together and…
Year of the Month: Joseph Finn on Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
I try to come up with some sort of theme for each of these articles…
Three Kinds of Worldbuilding
Mass Effect demonstrates systemic worldbuilding. The details are consistent and logically connected. The central premise…
THE DEUCE – “There’s an Art to This” “Seven-Fifty”
“There’s an Art to This” / Directed by Alex Hall / Written by Richard Price…
Celebrating the Living: Sally Kellerman
Most of the stills of Kellerman in Altman’s movie version of MASH (the asterisks are…