The Aviator: Marty and Leo Do Howard
It all started when his mother washed his balls
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean to The Witch Who Came from the Sea
“God made us all perfect, truly he did!”
Asian · Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Thrillers & Action
Against Pleasure, Against Identification: Feminism, Cultural Atheism, and the Tragic Subject (Part One)
Rescuing feminism from rape and queer theory
Baby, Take a Bow: That’s Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood continues to surprise and thrill
DVD & Blu-ray · Music & Musicals
Shocking Times: Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue on DVD
While the counterculture turns on, Miles plugs in with startling results
Body and Soul: Bresson’s A Man Escaped and Lancelot of the Lake on DVD
Death, destruction, and … hope
What Is Love? Mania Akbari Talks About Life, Love, and 20 Angosht (20 Fingers)
This first-time director from Iran inspires cheers and controversy
Unhappy Together: Wong Kar-Wai’s 2046
“Why can’t it be like before?”
Secrets and Lives: Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake
“We know what we are, but not what we may be
Documentaries · LGBT & Queer · Memoir · Reviews
Going Mental: The Travesties of Tarnation
“He’d fuck himself if he could”
Norbert, We Hardly Knew Ye: Rethinking the Late German Composer
He composed “Lili Marleen” and, oh yeah, hundreds of other songs and scores
How to Murder John Williams: Toward an Ideology of Contrapuntal Antirealism
To construct musicality through expressionism, or to express musicality through constructivism?
Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Revisiting Preminger’s The Moon Is Blue
Mixing it up with Otto and Alfred (Kinsey, that is)
Martha, Interrupted: Fassbinder’s 1974 Masterpiece on DVD
“You’re always wanting to touch me!”
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.”
Defending the Deviates: Evelyn Hooker Documentary Changing Our Minds on Video
“It had something to do with my sexual intercourse”
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