STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON is an Exciting Piece of Hollywood Mythmaking
The word “myth” is too often misunderstood. We place too much emphasis on the apparent…
Straight Outta Compton Has An “Appetite For Destruction”…And Box Office Glory!
27 years to the month after N.W.A. released the album Straight Outta Compton, the biopic…
Here’s All The News Announced At The Walt Disney Animation Studios/PIXAR Panel At D23
The bi-annual Disney centered convention D23 is going on this weekend and today they held…
Interest and Suggestions for The Solute Podcast
Hello everyone! Just to let you know a fair amount of us Solute Writers are…
The Solute Record Club: Janelle Monáe – THE ELECTRIC LADY
Well, the title is certainly not misleading. The Electric Lady – a likely subversion of…
Dissolve On (08/01/15 – 08/14/15)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, it’s commenting community had The Solute…
Shorts: PUTTING ON THE DISH
The Academy Award for Best Screenplay last year went to The Imitation Game, a modern depiction…
The Victim Isn’t Always Right
Within are spoilers about Michael Haneke’s Cache, Sam Fell and Chris Butler’s Paranorman, and Joel Edgerton’s The Gift.…
Film on the Television: CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981) on BBC America
Clash of the Titans was part of the brief, not fully explicable early-1980s fad for sword…
The Solute Record Club: Janelle Monáe – THE ARCHANDROID
When I listen to The ArchAndroid, I hear the last seventy years of music. Given…