The Altered State of War: Heaven, Hell, and the Structure of the Combat Film
“The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.”
Category: Genres
Activist & Political · Documentaries
Do the Wrong Thing: Confronting The Corporation
Corporations, go to the head of the line; everyone else, wait
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Steal This Picture … Please: Yolanda and the Thief
Fred almost suffocates in Minnelli’s Yolanda and the Thief
Activist & Political · Documentaries · Reviews
A Succession of Presents: Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Pay attention to that man behind the curtain
Drama · Experimental & Underground
Dogville: Or Lars von Trier’s New Old Testament
On the seventh day … he should have kept working
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
Books · LGBT & Queer · Writers & Critics
“I Changed My Socially Constructed Sexual Identity!” Jenni Olson on The Queer Movie Poster Book
“The butler did it … to everyone!”
DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground
Ai, Robot! Survival Research Laboratories: 10 Years of Robotic Mayhem on DVD
A Cruel and Rebellious Plot to Pervert the Minds of Viewers to Unholy Uses
Millions Like Us: Bereavement in British Cinema
“All the lonely people, where do they all come from?”
Asian · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews
Stray Man: Kurosawa’s Stray Dog on DVD
Tokyo steams, Mifune screams, Shimura beams
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Silents
Looking at Charlie: Keystone and Essanay Days
The first in an occasional series of articles on the life and work of Charlie Chaplin
Activist & Political · Documentaries
Jack-Ass II: Downsizing Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me
Spurlock’s no Sherlock
Links + BSA
