Year of the Month: FANTASIA
The Walt Disney Studio is responsible for some of the greatest films of all time,…
MOOD INDIGO: Half Mess, Half Masterpiece
Michel Gondry’s followed his muse to many great successes in his career, but that muse…
Year of the Month: The Transcendent Kitsch of THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
It should be no secret by now that I’m a great lover of kitsch, of…
Year of the Month: SUPER FLY — The Album
For soul music, the sixties began in the seventies. Make no mistake, the genre was…
Year of the Month: The Total Inexplicability of SANTA AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY
In last December’s article on Manos: The Hands of Fate, I may have undersold the…
Year of the Month: The Silliness, Sadness, and Beauty of SNOOPY COME HOME
If I may repeat myself from the last time we discussed Peanuts: once upon a…
MAUS: A Tragicomic, Tragic Comic
When Maus first came out, many people were shocked not just at how well Art…
Year of the Month: SCALPED Pt. 2 – Paradox on the Prairie
That’s a diverse and distinguished stew of influences, but one of the most important is…
Year of the Month: The Scope of SCALPED (Pt. 1)
If any comic book got off to a better start than this, I’ve yet to…
Year of the Month: ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
It’s easy to forget with movies like Bohemian Rhapsody going through the paces so exactly…