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…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of April 1994
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of March 1994
Year of the Month: Persia on Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
You mustn’t be taken in by the moonlight and magnolias. There’s more to Savannah than…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of February 1994
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of January 1994
Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on Touch of Evil
“It’s a free country.” “Shut up.” The opening tracking shot may be its most…
The Music Room is Haunted by an Indulgent Aristocrat’s Impending Doom by Joey Lee
It’s fascinating to think of music as an aristocrat’s (or zamindar‘s, as they were referred…
Who cons the con-artist? THE GUIDE (Year of the Month)
At first glance, breaking into R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi series can seem daunting: the author set…
Buchanan Rides Alone: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on Budd Boetticher’s Existential Hangout Western
The issue with writing about westerns is that there’s just so many of them: John…