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Short essays about various and sundry movie topics, delivered to you every Friday.
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Whistling At the Graveyard: "I Love You to Death"
Lawrence Kasden's regrettably underseen I Love You to Death, from 1990, is almost always described as a "black comedy." Yep. Okay. Got it. Err…but what the hell is a black comedy, anyway? The Merriam Webster dictionary defines it as "humor marked by the use of usually morbid…
Jun 24
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Look Out! Foreign Film Incoming!: "Z"
I must admit, I'm beginning this entry with a bit of trepidation. The film I'm writing about this week, Costa-Gavras's Z (1969), combines a large number of elements that tend to distress certain moviegoers, making it a dicey choice on my part. So before I dive into those…
Jun 17
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Why I'm Suspicious of the Batman Story
In the newest Batman flick, The Batman, there's a scene in which our caped crusader (played in this iteration by Robert Pattinson) and his cop buddy James Gordon (Jeffrey Wright) stand in a morgue trying to find clues about what happened to a murder victim. What's interesting to…
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What Cinema Is, Part IV: "Short Cuts"
Let's get one thing out of the way at the start: Robert Altman's Short Cuts, from 1993, is a fantastic movie, and if you haven't seen it, or haven't seen it recently, and particularly if you are an adult in any meaningful sense of the word, you should put aside some time to watch…
Jun 10
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What Cinema Is, Part III: "The In-Laws"
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Can You Make Them Like You Used To?: "Modern Times"
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What Cinema Is: "Dracula"
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The Kids Are Alright: "The Breakfast Club"
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What's Genre For? or "Yeah, Well, That's Just, Like, Your Opinion, Man": "The Big Lebowski"
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Hollywood, or The Big Toilet Bowl: "The Last of Sheila"
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"Mr. Freedom": An Excerpt
My book about William Klein's subversive 1969 superhero satire Mr. Freedom is now available from Liverpool University Press/Auteur Press.
Jun 3
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"Thoughts Mostly On Film" is on Set
Dear reader - I’m on set this week, helping make an indy horror film, so I won’t be writing an essay. I hope to be back next week with another missive …
May 27
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On Subversion, Part I: "The Bride of Frankenstein"
On occasion, I write linked essays on broader topics. Entries in the first continuing series, "What Cinema Is" can be found here, here, and here…
May 20
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The Kids Are Alright: "The Breakfast Club"
One of the things that fascinates me about American culture is its almost inconceivable lack of memory. It is, like any culture, arranged around a…
May 13
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We're All Mad as Hell and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore: Finding Hope in "Network"
The most obvious thing to write about Network – Paddy Chayefsky and Sidney Lumet's 1976 filmic evisceration of American media culture – is that its dour…
May 6
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Blond Hair and Crossed Eyes; or How I Learned To Quit Worrying About Genre and Love the "Knight Rider" Opening Voice-Over
What is genre? What's it for? How do we assign entertainments to one genre or another? What makes something a horror film, and how do we distinguish it…
Apr 30
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Love v. Empowerment: "The Apartment"
People know in the abstract how language reflects the world around them, but they often don't realize the depth of the connection between the two. Take…
Apr 22
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On Silhouettes, Torture by Drum Solo, and What Movies Tell Us About Culture: "The Big Combo"
The most treacherous ground in all of criticism may be the attempt to figure out what a work of art "tells us" about the culture that produces it…
Apr 15
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What Cinema Is, Part III: "The In-Laws"
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Can You Make Them Like You Used To?: "Modern Times"
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What Cinema Is: "Dracula"
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The Kids Are Alright: "The Breakfast Club"
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What's Genre For? or "Yeah, Well, That's Just, Like, Your Opinion, Man": "The Big Lebowski"
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Hollywood, or The Big Toilet Bowl: "The Last of Sheila"
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