Tears in the Astroturf: Friday Night Lights II
This feel-good movie doesn’t
Odessa, Texas Goes Hollywood: Friday Night Lights I
Are you ready for some rural idiocy?1
Exploitation & Erotica · Festivals & Awards
Where Kink Is King: The 2004 CineKink Festival
Won’t you be my pony boy?
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Blue Skies? Well, Partly Sunny
Fred ‘n’ Bing ‘n’ Irv, Part II
“If I were different, maybe things could be the same, only different.” Leo McCarey’s Screwball Classic The Awful Truth on DVD
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne live our dreams
Punishment Parks: The Battle of Algiers on DVD
Look familiar?
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Black Pirate to H.P. Lovecraft to Uum Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt
“Ah’m no freak! They ah disgustin’!”
The Verve Is Back: The New York Film Festival 2004
This year’s fest features a wealth of winners and a few flops
Capra’s Corn? Dante … Dickens … Capra …
George Bailey’s wartime America looks eerily familiar
The Interpretative Odyssey of 2001: Of Humanity and Hyperspace
More fun in the new (old) world
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
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Steal This Picture … Please: Yolanda and the Thief
Fred almost suffocates in Minnelli’s Yolanda and the Thief
The Altered State of War: Heaven, Hell, and the Structure of the Combat Film
“The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.”
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Cool: Appropriation and Prospects of Subversion in the Works of Quentin Tarantino
Overthrowing the patriarchy, one flush at a time
Activist & Political · Documentaries
Jack-Ass II: Downsizing Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me
Spurlock’s no Sherlock
Asian · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews
Stray Man: Kurosawa’s Stray Dog on DVD
Tokyo steams, Mifune screams, Shimura beams
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from Blue Spring to Wisconsin Death Trip
“Old fruit, you’ve got it!”
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
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!”
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