Year of the Month: James Williams on BRAINDEAD
Bad Taste wasn’t just the name of Peter Jackson’s 1987 debut feature, it was the…
Year of the Month: BATMAN RETURNS
Well, Christmas is over. The gifts have been unwrapped. The pretty paper’s gone into the…
Year of the Month: THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
I do not like Charles Dickens. This is well established in my circle of friends.…
Year of the Month: Miller on MOSTLY HARMLESS
What we call the internet — a word that at root describes connection more than…
Carrie Amanda on the Real Horror of TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME
Content note: This article discusses sexual assault and incest The central mystery of the television…
Great Mentors of the 90s in SIDEKICKS and 3 NINJAS
A movie may play many roles – entertainer, muse, provocateur… and babysitter. Ever since the…
A Funny Thing Happened. The Movie Started Working: Persia on UNDER SIEGE and the Charms of Classic Action
From the perspective of 2022, Under Siege sounds ridiculous. Die Hard on a ship, with…
Disney Byways: NEWSIES
This is extremely loosely based on real events. The real-life leader of the strike, the…
Year of the Month Lunch Links: LISTEN TO BRITAIN
Listen to Britain (1942) dir. Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister Unsurprisingly, European and American filmmaking in…
The Absurd Weight of Existence: Persia on Camus in 1942
If you want to talk about Camus, you have to talk about war. Technically, there…