Distribute This! Francisco Athié’s Vera (Mexico, 2003)
Bad day at Bedrock
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica
Lars von Trier: Pornographer?
Impossible…
The League of Extraordinary Subtitles: Bad Translations Offer Meta Fun
“Got it into your head to stuff from the dark continent.” Got it?
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Backyard to Dagon to What Are You Going to Do for Toilet Paper?
Tormented Christians, hacker boyz, cannibal queers, fish people you know, all those folks who keep it real
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”
Architecture as Social Commentary: The Absurdities of Il Posto
Olmi’s 1961 masterpiece comes to DVD in an excellent transfer
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
A Memoir of Circumstance and Substance: My Architect
A son looks at a father and sees much more in this superb doc
Capturing the Beauty of the Beast: Aileen Wuornos, Charlize Theron, and Monster
The “monster” Wuornos and why she won’t go away
Roses Without Thorns, Gains Without Pains, Love Without Tears: Mona Lisa Smile
Doctor Julia explains it all for you
You Can’t Go Home Again: Return of the King
Maybe that’s a good thing
Baden Boy: Peter Sehr’s Kaspar Hauser
Poor boy, long way from home
Documentaries · DVD & Blu-ray · Writers & Critics
“Being There”: No Maps for These Territories on DVD
“I was just doing my job.”
Down with Underrated Masterpieces! Looney Tunes: Back in Action and Down with Love
The sound of no hands clapping
Bonnie and Clyde: Together Again
Warren Beatty’s seminal sixties shoot-’em-up revisited
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
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer
Twelve-Tone Cinema: A Scattershot Notebook on Sexual Atonality
Is queerness an angry chord or a beautiful harmony?
Alfred Hitchcock: A Hank of Hair and a Piece of Bone: A Photo Essay on the Master’s Visual Motifs
For almost fifty years, Alfred Hitchcock filled his films with a select group of images, including houses, staircases, women’s hair, the human hand, the human eye, the “uncanny,” and the[…]
Comedy · LGBT & Queer · Pre-Code
Wheeler and Woolsey Queered
The downright peculiar pleasures of pre-Code Wheeler and Woolsey
Animation · Historical & Epic · War
Private Snafu’s Hidden War: Historical Survey and Analytical Perspective
The famed doofus of WWII propaganda cartoons served purposes patriotic and perfidious
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