Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
“Follies” Is Right! Musical Madness at MGM
Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly barely survive Ziegfeld Follies
Category: Genres
Asian · Crime · SF & Fantasy
Camp Carnage: Takashi Miiker’s Full Metal Yakuza
And Frankenstein begat Robocop, which begat Ken
DVD & Blu-ray · Horror · Reviews
The Doctors Are In! Jekyll & Hyde Times Three on DVD
Men are brutes literally this time
Forgotten Master: The Career of Gregory La Cava
Lubitsch wasn’t the only one with a “touch”
Distribute This! The Women Men Yearn For (Germany, 1929)
Lust in translation
The Great Marriage Debate of 1924: Lubitsch’s Masterful Silent on DVD
A pioneering entry in a rare genre: the screwball comedy of manners
Comedy · Drama · Music & Musicals
The Masked and Anonymous Carnival of Disappointment, Exploitation, and Profound Ironies
“We’re all trying to kill time, but time ends up killing us.”
A Memoir of Circumstance and Substance: My Architect
A son looks at a father and sees much more in this superb doc
What We Talk About When We Talk About Ho Meng-Hua
How to strike at the heart of a beast with the heart of a beast
Architecture as Social Commentary: The Absurdities of Il Posto
Olmi’s 1961 masterpiece comes to DVD in an excellent transfer
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Fred Meets Joan Leslie, and The Sky’s the Limit
“Never let it be said little Freddie can’t carry his load”
The League of Extraordinary Subtitles: Bad Translations Offer Meta Fun
“Got it into your head to stuff from the dark continent.” Got it?
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica
Lars von Trier: Pornographer?
Impossible…
Distribute This! Francisco Athié’s Vera (Mexico, 2003)
Bad day at Bedrock
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer
Twelve-Tone Cinema: A Scattershot Notebook on Sexual Atonality
Is queerness an angry chord or a beautiful harmony?
Characters · Essays · Genres · Thrillers & Action
The Revolutionary James Bond Movie: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
In which Lazenby, like Lazarus, is resurrected, along with the movie
Bonnie and Clyde: Together Again
Warren Beatty’s seminal sixties shoot-’em-up revisited
Down with Underrated Masterpieces! Looney Tunes: Back in Action and Down with Love
The sound of no hands clapping
Documentaries · DVD & Blu-ray · Writers & Critics
“Being There”: No Maps for These Territories on DVD
“I was just doing my job.”
Baden Boy: Peter Sehr’s Kaspar Hauser
Poor boy, long way from home
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