The Friday Article Roundup: Mission Critical
A quartet of articles about the relationships of critics, artists, acclaim, and fans! Or, as…
Taco Break: Criticism vs. Experience (from Son of Griff)
From Son of Griff: What distinguishes the Solute from other fan sustained cultural sites is…
Let People Dislike Things, Too
This weekend, I got lectured by someone who hadn’t like last week’s Stuff My Kids…
The Value of Criticism
Most of the time, the articles I post here are first drafts. This is especially…
Deserving
Let me start by coming clean—I have as of this moment seen five features and…
Critical Ability
Every once in a while, every critic gets asked why they don’t [thing they do…
Dissolve On (11/12/2017-11/18/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Dissolve On (9/3/2017-9/9/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
A Thing For Loveplay and Movie-Watching
I had Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy from the library. The original miniseries. And it turned…
The Dissolve, 2013-2015
For reasons we don’t yet know, The Dissolve, a film site launched two years ago…