The Usual Cast of Dope Addicts and Misfits: Tim Burton and Ed Wood
I’m not the first to call Tim Burton “baby’s first auteur,” and I’m certainly not…
Year of the Month: Mon Oncle
Mon Oncle is far funnier than any dry French art film on the aesthetics of…
Year of the Month: The Cat in the Hat Comes Back!
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back might be the perfect book to review today.…
Year of the Month: More Comics by John Stanley
If John Stanley’s an unsung genius, his collaborator Bill Williams might be even more so.…
Year of the Month: The Comics of John Stanley
Comics history, like all history, was written by the winners, and in this case, the…
Year of the Month: The Trial
“The Trial is the best film I have ever made.” – Orson Welles That’s a…
Year of the Month: Bamboozled
When Boots Riley’s critique of BlacKKKlansman first came out, my immediate reaction was, how far…
Year of the Month: R.L. Burnside’s Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down and Tradition at the Turn of the Millennium
It would be almost be too neat a narrative if the music didn’t demand it:…
Year of the Month: The Wall
I’ve got wild, staring eyes.And I got a strong urge to fly.But I got Nowhere…
1997: The Year in the Simpsons Roundtable
BurgundySuit: The Simpsons is obviously a show that means a lot to all of us,…