The Friday Article Roundup: The Multimedia Experience
This Week You Will Experience Wonders and Controversies In: film! music! biographies! video games! short…
Year of the Month: The Fiasco of MARGARET
Author’s note: A version of this essay originally appeared as part of Lovefest 2016, a…
Experimental Animation
Never do anything that somebody else can do better. That’s why we ordinarily sidestep stories…
I’m not as dumb as I am: HAPPY ENDINGS is the 21st century’s great screwball sitcom
When I wrote up Happy Endings in the review of the best TV shows of the…
Stuff My Kids Watch: Letting Go
My readers may have noticed that this has become the most sporadic of my columns—the…
New on DVD and Blu-Ray
A small but hearty week, where Warner tries to make up for the last year…
The Solute Book Club: THE GIRL FROM RAWBLOOD (Introduction)
One of the pleasures of art is experiencing someone else’s perspective. That idea often gets…
SCENIC ROUTE: Elvis (2022), “That’s All Right”
Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 film Elvis stands out from other biopics in that, rather than simply laying out…
Celebrating the Living: Tyne Daly
Technically, Tyne Daly is a nepo baby. She and her brother Tim were children of…
Attention Must Be Paid: Don LaFontaine
In a world . . . there, I said it. Happy? —his last line, delivered…