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!”
Welcome to the Chest Club: Tina Fey’s Mean Girls
Freaks and Geeks redux
All the Citizen’s Men: Kane as Welles; also America
Kane as Welles, also America
Activist & Political · Essays · Historical & Epic
Want Fact with That? Disney’s Hidalgo and the Commodification of Myth
Enjoy your myths that’s what they’re there for
Harry Potter and the Valley of the Mysterious Female
When Harry got laid
They Can’t Give You Anything but Love: Robert Aldrich’s Grissom Gang on DVD
Of course, it’ll cost you
Don’t Follow Leaders: Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket
Kubrick’s shaman/artist takes on “the leaders”
F for Fake: The Ultimate Mirror of Orson Welles
In which Welles deflates expectations of greatness and transcends them
Activist & Political · Drama · Essays
Above the Revolution: The Dreamers and Alienation
“With my memories I have lit a fire.”
Drama · Experimental & Underground
Dogville: Or How Not to Discover America
Von Trier’s America may be too cartoonish for its own good
Drama · Experimental & Underground
Dogville: Or Lars von Trier’s New Old Testament
On the seventh day … he should have kept working
Activist & Political · Documentaries
Do the Wrong Thing: Confronting The Corporation
Corporations, go to the head of the line; everyone else, wait
Upper-Lip Stiffs: The Agatha Christie Megaset Collection
Christie should be smiling she still outsells the Bible
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Silents
Looking at Charlie: Keystone and Essanay Days
The first in an occasional series of articles on the life and work of Charlie Chaplin
Millions Like Us: Bereavement in British Cinema
“All the lonely people, where do they all come from?”
Oh, the, You Know, Humanity: Freaks and Geeks is on DVD. Why?
The best-written show on television?1 That’s what a lot of people have been saying about F&G, which ran on NBC for a single season back in 1999–2000. Granted, that’s setting the[…]
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