Intrusive Thoughts
Certain words will always be in certain actors' voices. It's one of the quirks of human memory.
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He wants his corners.
Celebrating the Living
The oldest surviving Mission Impossible cast member has a career that goes back to 1958.
The pleasures of anticipating chaos.
Attention Must Be Paid
From a slender, dashing stuntman of the silent era to the gruff-voiced Doughy Guy of the '30s and '40s.
Disney Byways
A platoon of Goofys play hockey in this classic short from 1945.
I decided to see if Inside Out 2 and The Wild Robot are truly the frontrunners of the Oscars' Best Animated Feature.
Fate & Alcohol was almost certainly not especially fun to make. Bands don’t typically break up after releasing their first album in seven years if everything is wine and roses — but for the most part, it sounds fun.
SunDog, to borrow an over-used sports cliche in service of a pun, have that dog in them. By the time the ball drops on 2024, the psych-tinged bubble grunge trio out of Anchorage, Alaska, will have packed an absurd amount of activity into the year. That includes sandwiching an album release with two tours, serving […]
Year of the Month
After a preview screening of his newest film Husbands in 1969, John Cassavetes should have been elated: everyone loved the film. But Cassavetes felt that the film was too entertaining in its depiction of the three main characters. So Cassavetes dismantled the entire film in the editing room to create the film he released in 1970. But now we can see it, or at least have a better idea of this first version than we used to. Through my archival research, I located a shooting script of the first third of the film that I argue allows us access to at least part of the 1969 edit of the film.
Intrusive Thoughts
Certain words will always be in certain actors' voices. It's one of the quirks of human memory.
Attention Must Be Paid
From a slender, dashing stuntman of the silent era to the gruff-voiced Doughy Guy of the '30s and '40s.
Year of the Month
After a preview screening of his newest film Husbands in 1969, John Cassavetes should have been elated: everyone loved the film. But Cassavetes felt that the film was too entertaining in its depiction of the three main characters. So Cassavetes dismantled the entire film in the editing room to create the film he released in 1970. But now we can see it, or at least have a better idea of this first version than we used to. Through my archival research, I located a shooting script of the first third of the film that I argue allows us access to at least part of the 1969 edit of the film.
Streaming Shuffle
A Job-esque wager over humanity's ability to entertain.
My thoughts on how sex scene discourse seems to bring the worst out of people
Intrusive Thoughts
Thinking back on the unnecessary spate of '90s movie versions of classic TV shows and wondering who let it happen again.
Celebrating the Living
From Anne Frank's sister to Dr. House's mother, Diane Baker has had quite the career!
He wants his corners.
Celebrating the Living
The oldest surviving Mission Impossible cast member has a career that goes back to 1958.
Intrusive Thoughts
The absolutely wild world of the after school programming beloved by Generation X.
English Teacher is a straightforward sitcom that ends up capturing what it's like to be in your thirties and finding out how much there still is to learn.
Celebrating the Living
One of the great Hey It's That Guys in TV history was finally given a chance to shine by the Coens.
Attention Must Be Paid
Famous for playing the lovable Aunt Bee; in reality something of a recluse who didn't get along with her coworkers.
Attention Must Be Paid
Andy Taylor or MAAAAAAATLOOOOOOOCK? You be the judge!
Fate & Alcohol was almost certainly not especially fun to make. Bands don’t typically break up after releasing their first album in seven years if everything is wine and roses — but for the most part, it sounds fun.
SunDog, to borrow an over-used sports cliche in service of a pun, have that dog in them. By the time the ball drops on 2024, the psych-tinged bubble grunge trio out of Anchorage, Alaska, will have packed an absurd amount of activity into the year. That includes sandwiching an album release with two tours, serving […]
Usually age is a liability for rock bands, but on Los Campesinos! recently released seventh album, All Hell, “the U.K.’s first and only emo band” unequivocally proves that their well-earned longevity is an asset. The band describes All Hell as an album on “drinking for fun and drinking for misery // adult acne // adult […]
A critic can be a presence that builds a community.
Making things up is a foundation of songwriting. But there's a person making it up at the base of it all, pulling from life or reacting to it or rejecting it.
Music Countdown
Our author's first annual countdown of his favorite songs of the year
Year of the Month
Everclear's breakthrough album is raw, painful, and brutally honest in a way that few albums are-- and that their own work never reached again
A review of my first playthrough for Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Examining how relationships work in The Dragon Age Saga prior to Veilguard.
How the multiple endings of Spec Ops: The Line ask the player to judge their protagonist.
A deranged, ambitious, overly sincere essay on a deranged, ambitious, overly sincere game.
A short review of a fun mobile game about terraforming planets.
Mysteries stack upon mysteries stack upon gameplay to show a vivid, psychedelic view of the world.
How the iconic video games throw together ideas in a sack and see what happens.
Year of the Month
Amy Dunne knows that it's literally impossible to be a woman, too.
Year of the Month
“The Myth of Sisyphus” and Absurdism didn't happen in a vacuum.
Year of the Month
The limits of knowledge, and of cynicism.
Le Guin swerved from the expected in her second Earthsea book.
Year of the Month
The third book in Rice's romantic, blood-soaked Vampire Chronicles dramatically upped the stakes and scope.
Intersectional Femivision
When and how we ask kids to grow up
Intersectional Femivision
A look at Bechdel Tests and Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate Series