Year of the Month: Haley Ioppini on DESPICABLE ME
In the summer of 2013, college buddies Haley Ioppini and Mary Alice Wintz needed something…
Year of the Month: Roland Saint-Laurent on MACHETE
Robert Rodriguez’ long-gestating 2010 Danny Trejo action vehicle Machete started with low ambitions but…
Year of the Month: SHUTTER ISLAND
Spoilers ahead Shutter Island seems on the face of it like a textbook minor work…
Disney Byways: TRON: LEGACY
Famously, the original TRON was deemed ineligible for a Best Visual Effects Oscar. Using computers…
The best songs of 1935, according to the Academy (Year of the Month)
Greetings fellow Soluters and music lovers! I once again ran out of time to do…
POPEYE, Part Two: A Study in Segar-ian Storytelling
Popeye begins 1935 in Black Valley, investigating a gang of claimjumpers fed on tainted cactus…
POPEYE, Part One: A Study in Segar-ian Style
90-odd years after he first tromped onto the stage of Thimble Theatre, Popeye’s in a…
Year of the Month: FLASH GORDON
Nowadays, newspaper comics are the lowest form of life — page after page of crotchety…
Year of the Month: MAD LOVE
Mad Love opens in the Theatre de Horrors, a Grand Guignol knockoff packed full of…
Year of the Month: Krazy Kat in THE HOT CHA MELODY
You probably know George Herriman’s Krazy Kat: the newspaper comic strip that forward-thinking critic Gilbert…