Guest Article: 18 Songs about Actors by David “Rosy Fingers” McFarlane
I love when songwriters reference pop culture. For some reason, songwriters tend to be more…
Year of the Month: Dylan “Balthazar Bee” Groves on The Last Detail
This review contains SPOILERS. Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail is a profoundly sad and…
Journeys to Nowhere: Jake Gittes on The Rain People and Easy Rider
“We should be talking about The Rain People more than we do”, observed Scott Tobias…
Dissolve On (10/29/2017-11/4/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Reading Against the Grain – Part 4: EASY RIDER
Every year around this time in August, aging lawyers, doctors, and those of similar professions,…
Bad Love – Part 5: CHINATOWN
Conventional films about love bring people together, and thus deal with class issues in two…
Bad Love – Part 2: CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
With its graphic language (resulting in an obscenity charge in Georgia that was overruled by…
The Year in Review: Revisiting the Late 60s
If, as I wrote in last year’s review, that the early 60s were in vogue…
“Continue down your mistaken path”: THE SHINING (1980)
Horror is a genre made for formalists. (Noel Murray) Coming back to the The Shining…
Re-viewing 1980s U.S. Films – Part 4: Prizzi’s Honor
The Godfather I (1972) and II (1974) served as a prelude to a string of…