Attention Must Be Paid: James Wong Howe
I recently read Five Came Back, a fascinating book about five major Hollywood directors who…
Disney Byways: “Plane Crazy”
The studios were in general startled by the arrival of sound. A lot of things…
It Delivers The Scariest Clown Horror Since The Brave Little Toaster
There’s something freaky going around the town of Derry. People keep disappearing, far more than…
Year of the Month in Comics: August 1968
Year of the Month: Scott Broussard (scb0212) on The Prisoner
Fifty years later, writer/director Patrick McGoohan’s spy-fi show The Prisoner remains as entertaining and bewildering…
Year of the Month in Comics: July 1968
The Solute Record Club/Year of the Month: Switched-On Bach by Wendy Carlos
A nearly objective measure of the necessity of J. S. Bach to the Western musical…
Going Out of Book
A recent episode of the Film Comment podcast brought back “Movie Gifts,” a roundtable conversation…
Ready to Update
When I was a child, we got cable. It was probably 1983, the year my…
A Look Back At The Ten Biggest Movies At The Summer 2017 Box Office
Back at the end of April, for the third year in a row, I typed…