Great TV: Mystery Science Theater 3000

Although this is primarily a movie site, television is also written about here, mostly because the lines between TV and … More

Perfect Directors: Spike Lee

Listen: I am not black. In fact, I am one of the most lily-white people on the planet. Nor do … More

As America pivoted from the 1980’s to the 1990’s, the culture as a whole seemed to undergo a seismic shift: … More

Many films have been made glorifying war: from Sands of Iwo Jima to American Sniper, American films in particular like … More

As stated in the introduction to this series, if 1980’s Hollywood perfected anything, it was marketing: demographic research, adherence to … More

How do you even begin to describe a movie like Meet The Hollowheads? Is it a satire or sci-fi? Comedy … More

Often left of center and coming out of left field, for a movie to be regarded as a cult … More

Cozy worlds. That’s what Wes Anderson builds in his films: cozy worlds where everything is in its right place, every … More

Magical realism is a deceptively simple stylistic label that has often left artists floundering in their attempt to somehow create … More

In our short lives, if we’re looking in the right places and have the want for such a search, we … More

There may be no more perfect comedy configuration on film than the Marx Brothers. I have had some dark days in … More

“You like Huey Lewis & The News?” I sure do, and Patrick Bateman makes a great argument for the strengths … More