Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
May 23, 2025Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American...
Book Review: Other Lives by Peter Bagge
May 23, 2025Overall, there’s a universality to the dilemma that Bagge’s characters face: Who are we? We each...
Book Review: Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz by Randall Sandke
May 21, 2025Sandke offers no critical commentary about this piece of advice that was given Armstrong after he...
The Weekly Listicle: The Worst Endings Ever EVER.
May 21, 2025Six seasons have come and passed, but now this Sunday, May 23rd, ‘Lost’ finally comes to...
Recycling Meets Recreation
May 21, 2025Last year Macro-Sea conceived of the Dumpster Pool. The designers constructed what they call a "lo-fi...
What summer should have been: Camp in Movies and TV
May 21, 2025It’s already mid-May, guys. Summer’s nearly upon us. “Summer” means something different to everyone, but universally...
Book Review: The Songs of Hollywood by Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson
May 21, 2025For the next few years, Hollywood musicals, climaxing in 42nd Street (1933), would be "backstage" pictures....
miniBLOGS: Why “Lost” Sucked This Week, Why 3-D is Doomed, and Three Trailers You HAVE to See
May 21, 2025The problem is that “Lost: The Science Fiction Series” was just okay, while “Lost: The Fantasy...
The Weekly Listicle: Action Heroines!
May 21, 2025For some reason Ridley Scott decided another retelling of Robin Hood was a good idea, and...
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
May 21, 2025Muybridge had married his young assistant, in 1871. After a while, he began to suspect that...




