Employed at Better Things
My boyfriend was filling out paperwork for his horrible, soul-sucking new job—which is, in fact,…
Enlightenment Gothic: Reason and Imagination in Goya’s Los Caprichos
The Spanish painter Francisco de Goya lived and worked in the middle of a shift…
The Solute Record Club: Kate Bush – NEVER FOR EVER
Beyond the enjoyable tracks found on Lionheart, the biggest positive that came from the album…
Film on the Television (7/29/15): FATAL INSTINCT on Showtime Extreme
Carl Reiner’s penultimate movie, Fatal Instinct, found him trying out the Mel Brooks-ian spoof genre, taking…
Channing Tatum Will Not Be Playing Gambit In The X-Men Universe
Well this is surprising. Like, this is seriously shocking. There hadn’t been weeks of rumored…
American Underworld – Part I: Original Gangster
W.R. Burnett’s original 1929 novel Little Caesar opens with a quote from Machiavelli. The 1931…
The Solute Record Club: Voting (Short Discographies/Classic Albums) and Janelle Monae
Sorry for the incredibly short notice of this post, but I feel this is something…
2015 Toronto International Film Festival Announces Line-Up
How is it this time of year already? Feels like just yesterday I was celebrating…
What’s New on Blu-Ray and DVD
This week’s major studio release is Dreamworks Animation’s Home, a sci-fi family movie about a young…
Taco Break: *crinkle crinkle crinkle*
Movie theaters candy used to come in boxes for a reason. They’re easy to open,…