Essays · SF & Fantasy

2

The Interpretative Odyssey of 2001: Of Humanity and Hyperspace

• October 31, 2004

More fun in the new (old) world

Activist & Political · Documentaries · Reviews

0

A Succession of Presents: Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train

• July 31, 2004

Pay attention to that man behind the curtain

Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals

0

Steal This Picture … Please: Yolanda and the Thief

• July 31, 2004

Fred almost suffocates in Minnelli’s Yolanda and the Thief

Essays · Genres · War

0

The Altered State of War: Heaven, Hell, and the Structure of the Combat Film

• July 31, 2004

“The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.”

Directors · Essays

0

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Cool: Appropriation and Prospects of Subversion in the Works of Quentin Tarantino

• July 31, 2004

Overthrowing the patriarchy, one flush at a time

Activist & Political · Documentaries

0

Jack-Ass II: Downsizing Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me

• July 31, 2004

Spurlock’s no Sherlock

Asian · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews

0

Stray Man: Kurosawa’s Stray Dog on DVD

• July 31, 2004

Tokyo steams, Mifune screams, Shimura beams

Reviews

0

Quickies: Random Short Reviews from Blue Spring to Wisconsin Death Trip

• July 31, 2004

“Old fruit, you’ve got it!”

DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground

0

Ai, Robot! Survival Research Laboratories: 10 Years of Robotic Mayhem on DVD

• July 31, 2004

A Cruel and Rebellious Plot to Pervert the Minds of Viewers to Unholy Uses

Books · LGBT & Queer · Writers & Critics

0

“I Changed My Socially Constructed Sexual Identity!” Jenni Olson on The Queer Movie Poster Book

• July 31, 2004

“The butler did it … to everyone!”

Comedy · Reviews

0

Welcome to the Chest Club: Tina Fey’s Mean Girls

• July 31, 2004

Freaks and Geeks redux

Characters · Essays

0

All the Citizen’s Men: Kane as Welles; also America

• July 31, 2004

Kane as Welles, also America

Activist & Political · Essays · Historical & Epic

0

Want Fact with That? Disney’s Hidalgo and the Commodification of Myth

• July 31, 2004

Enjoy your myths — that’s what they’re there for

Reviews · SF & Fantasy

2

Harry Potter and the Valley of the Mysterious Female

• July 31, 2004

When Harry got laid

Drama · Reviews

0

They Can’t Give You Anything but Love: Robert Aldrich’s Grissom Gang on DVD

• July 31, 2004

Of course, it’ll cost you

Essays · War

1

Don’t Follow Leaders: Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket

• July 31, 2004

Kubrick’s shaman/artist takes on “the leaders”

Documentaries · Essays

1

F for Fake: The Ultimate Mirror of Orson Welles

• July 31, 2004

In which Welles deflates expectations of greatness — and transcends them

Activist & Political · Drama · Essays

0

Above the Revolution: The Dreamers and Alienation

• July 31, 2004

“With my memories I have lit a fire.”

Drama · Experimental & Underground

0

Dogville: Or How Not to Discover America

• July 31, 2004

Von Trier’s America may be too cartoonish for its own good

Drama · Experimental & Underground

0

Dogville: Or Lars von Trier’s New Old Testament

• July 31, 2004

On the seventh day … he should have kept working