It’s So Hard to Be Old: Ben Hammel (bhammer100) on Akira Kurosawa’s Ran (Year of the Month)
Many critics consider Ran Akira Kurosawa’s final masterpiece. In 1985, after ten long years ruminating…
Talking Down
So this morning, my kid is watching game-play videos on YouTube. Which he does pretty…
Journey To Italy Is A Quietly Tragic Romantic Drama NOT A Concert Movie About Journey Performing In Italy As I Thought (Sight & Sound Voyage)
Sight & Sound Voyage Entry #31 Placement On Sight & Sound Top 50 Movies List:…
Year of the Month: Lars Einar S. “lgague” Stieng on Hail Mary
Displacement, the act of moving something from an original or natural state, is one…
Film on the Disc: BRAZIL (Year of the Month)
In 1984, Ghostbusters was unearthed to an unsuspecting public. Wait, are you in the Brazil thread? Yeah,…
FIREFLY, Episode Two, “The Train Job”
As is famous now, Firefly was utterly shat on by Fox; in this specific case,…
New on DVD and Blu-Ray
We have a bigger than normal slate for an end-of-the-month week, and a surprising amount…
The Exorcist (2016 TV Series)
**Minor Spoilers for Season One** Recently, years have been kinder to remaking popular properties, at least in…
Follow-up: Cinefamily shutters for restructuring
Two weekends ago, non-profit repertory theater The Cinefamily was rocked by a scandalous anonymous email…
Year of the Month: Jon “Son of Griff” Anderson on The Breakfast Club
Perhaps no genre ages as badly as High School Melodrama. Because its appeal rests on…