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…
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…