Year of the Month: The Dystopian Utopia of THINGS TO COME
The twenties and thirties were full of paranoid visions of the future. In Britain, Aldous…
Year of the Month: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Don’t let anybody hurt you again, ever. They can’t anyway. You’re much too real. That…
Year of the Month: Sansho the Bailiff
Any lover of art films is eventually going to have to deal with the question,…
The Monsters of 1954: New Species, Ancient Species, and the King of Them All
If Phantom of the Rue Morgue struggled to make the classic monsters of the thirties…
The Monsters of 1954: One-Eyed Amoebas, Pop-Eyed Aliens, and Other Also-Rans
I was just a few parenting choices away from becoming a Monster Kid. When I…
A Serious Man: The Story of a Father
Larry Gopnick does not care for where his life is going. His trials start off…
Year of the Month: Up
I had to call dibs on Up the moment I knew we’d be covering 2009.…
Year of the Month: High-Diving Hare
I recently called Tim Burton “baby’s first auteur,” but that’s not exactly true. I really…
Pulp Fiction: The Flesh and the Spirit
“It is Tarantino’s strategy in all his films to have the characters speak at right…
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…