Tears in the Astroturf: Friday Night Lights II
This feel-good movie doesn’t
Category: Genres
Defending the Deviates: Evelyn Hooker Documentary Changing Our Minds on Video
“It had something to do with my sexual intercourse”
Film Technology & History · Genres · Horror
Horror Queens: Divas from Hollywood’s Golden Age Rampage Through the Sixties
“She’s supposed to be shriveling away,” observed Davis, “but her tits keep growing. I keep running into them, like the Hollywood hills.”
Martha, Interrupted: Fassbinder’s 1974 Masterpiece on DVD
“You’re always wanting to touch me!”
Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Revisiting Preminger’s The Moon Is Blue
Mixing it up with Otto and Alfred (Kinsey, that is)
Documentaries · LGBT & Queer · Memoir · Reviews
Going Mental: The Travesties of Tarnation
“He’d fuck himself if he could”
The Interpretative Odyssey of 2001: Of Humanity and Hyperspace
More fun in the new (old) world
Secrets and Lives: Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake
“We know what we are, but not what we may be
Drama · Experimental & Underground
Dogville: Or How Not to Discover America
Von Trier’s America may be too cartoonish for its own good
Activist & Political · Drama · Essays
Above the Revolution: The Dreamers and Alienation
“With my memories I have lit a fire.”
F for Fake: The Ultimate Mirror of Orson Welles
In which Welles deflates expectations of greatness and transcends them
Don’t Follow Leaders: Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket
Kubrick’s shaman/artist takes on “the leaders”
They Can’t Give You Anything but Love: Robert Aldrich’s Grissom Gang on DVD
Of course, it’ll cost you
Harry Potter and the Valley of the Mysterious Female
When Harry got laid
Activist & Political · Essays · Historical & Epic
Want Fact with That? Disney’s Hidalgo and the Commodification of Myth
Enjoy your myths that’s what they’re there for
Welcome to the Chest Club: Tina Fey’s Mean Girls
Freaks and Geeks redux
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