Year of the Month: THE SCARLET EMPRESS
If The Black Cat and Dames show Hollywood entering the Code Era so suddenly you…
Year of the Month: David “Rosy Fingers” McFarlane on Agatha Christie’s 1934.
1934 turned out to be a banner year for Agatha Christie. Fourteen years into her…
Betty Boop’s Potato-Faced Cuteness (Year Of The Month)
Betty Boop may be one of the few characters to have passed almost entirely from…
Year of the Month: Sunil Patel on THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) gave the world “Que Será, Será,” and for…
The best songs of 1934, according to the Academy
This is where it all begins, the first year of eligible films for the newly-created…
Year of the Month: THE BLACK CAT
History will tell you that German Expressionism died with the rise of Fascism, but that’s…
Karel Čapek’s “NOETIC” TRILOGY (Year of the Month)
A shocking murder disrupts the placid surface of a small Bohemian farming community. The mangled…
Safety Whenever: MAN OF ARAN
Man of Aran asks how many lives you would put at risk for a good…
Year of the Month: Joseph Finn on 3 SONGS ABOUT LENIN
A lot of the time, when choosing what to write about for Year Of The…