The best songs of 1941, according to the Academy (YOTM, part 1)
Greetings, fellow song-lovers! Last month we had an unexpected bumper crop of hit songs to…
New on DVD and Blu-Ray
Criterion’s Italian Heritage Month continues with two releases as big as the pizza pie that…
The Friday Article Roundup Chats Fireside
The FAR invites you to pull up a chair, choose a cigar, put on your…
Year of the Month: Persia on The Chattanooga Choo Choo
Before America had car culture, it had the train. Southern states blocked railway expansion until…
The Friday Article Roundup Hallows All Eves
Wooooooo! Who’s ready for some horrifying specters of death and ghoulish monsters making noise in…
Red Dawn (Year Of The Month)
Red Dawn is one of the most famous examples of Eighties camp. Camp is one…
The Friday Article Roundup Fashions a Personality
The FAR knows how to stay hip and stand out from the crowd! Our clothes…
The Friday Article Roundup Draws Breath
Life favors the image, as in cartoons (moving and static). Or maybe it’s language in…
Year of the Month: The Gonzo Garbage of Golan and Globus, Part 2
If I told you Bolero was a movie with a bullfighter who gets gored in…
The best original songs of 1961, according to the Academy
Last month the Ploughman made a smart observation about the pattern of nominees in this…