The King’s Deathbed: DreamWorks in 2004 (Year of the Month)
Nicole Laporte’s excellent book The Men Who Would Be King chronicles the whole sad saga of…
Year of the Month: Doug Wykstra on E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
The trouble I have reviewing E.T. the Extraterrestrial is separating the nostalgia it’s trying to…
The Academy and Mr. Spielberg
When I initially heard about The Post, my reaction was to wonder how the Academy…
The Year in Review: Imagining the Political
Last year, I focused on films that were the coming attractions of the Trump regime.…
Dissolve On (12/17/2017-12/23/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Dissolve On (12/3/2017-12/9/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Year Of The Month: Jurassic Park
The major and most common mistake made in today’s blockbusters is handing over million dollar…
Dissolve On (10/1/2017-10/7/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Dissolve On (9/10/2017-9/16/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Taco Break: Ambiguity and the Potential for Misreading
In 1987, Oliver Stone dissected the hyper-materialism of the 1980s with Wall Street, a film where…