Tales from the Dark Age: The Rising Sun
If you really want to disprove the theory of the Dark Age Animation, just look…
Tales from the Dark Age: More Shorts
We’ll get to the enormous influence of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? by the end of…
Tales from the Dark Age: Short Stuff
The Golden Age of Hollywood Animation lines up neatly with the Golden Age of Hollywood…
Taking Over the MADhouse — The Last Days of EC Comics Part 2
Content note: this article contains a reference to suicide EC put most of its eggs…
Closing the Crypt: The Last Days of EC Comics, Part 1
While the “Golden Age” is mostly used now by DC and Marvel to milk nostalgia…
Year of the Month: GANGS OF NEW YORK
Content note: In addition to spoilers, this article contains references to 9/11, the wars in…
Year of the Month: PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is the kind of great movie that’s often overlooked because it…
Year of the Month: 55 Years of 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE
Content note: This article contains references to sexual assault, including of minors, and incest I…
Lang the Mythmaker: METROPOLIS, Part 2
Metropolis continues Die Niebelungen’s temporal mishmash, but what was merely confusing in Niebelungen becomes an…
Epic Lang: METROPOLIS and DIE NIBELUNGEN
Fritz Lang was an incredibly versatile filmmaker, but he spent much of his career in…