Sitemap - 2021 - Thoughts Mostly About Film
Men and Guns, Part One: "Shane"
Are We Human Beings?: "Island of Lost Souls"
What Cinema Is, Part III: "The In-Laws"
The Uses of Confusion: "The Long Goodbye"
Satan Made Me Do It! (...Or Did He?) "The Devil's Advocate"
On the Environment, Hollywood, and "Jeremiah Johnson"
A Sense of Terror: The First Ten Minutes of "The Shining"
The Beginnings of Wisdom: "The Leopard"
It Lives in the Language: Craft and "Aliens"
"I've seen the future, baby / It is murder": "Repo Man"
On Stakes, Franchises, and War Films: "The Train"
There is a Light That Will Never Go Out: "Office Space"
Lionheart Versus the Critics: "Theater of Blood"
No One Beats the Game: "Double Indemnity"
The Villainy You Teach Me I Will Execute: "Winchester '73"
The Pleasures of Deception: "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
Hell is My Natural Habitat: "Under the Volcano"
A Single Straight Line that is Invisible and Endless: "Amadeus"
What Do We See When We Actually Look?: The Importance of Visual Aesthetics
"Thoughts Mostly On Film" Is Lost in the Woods
On Sentimentality: "Breaking Away"
How Criticism Works (When it Does)
The Song of Ourselves: "Singin' in the Rain"
Where to Now, Man?: "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid"
Hollywood, or The Big Toilet Bowl: "The Last of Sheila"
What Cinema Is, Continued: "White Zombie"
On the Construction of Joy: "The Princess Bride"
A Question of Righteousness: "Platoon"
But It's Just a Horror Movie!: "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?"
What's in the Box? Pain! (By Which I Mean the Question of Art vs. Entertainment): "Dune"
What In The World Is This Thing We Call Plot?: "Night Moves"
There Once Was a Cautionary Tale: "The Color Of Money"
The Making of Nostalgia: "The Royal Tenenbaums"
America, Plunged Into the Dark Furrows of The Sea Again: "Seconds"
It's After Your Sensibilities: "Body Double"
No Thought Is Binding: "Fort Apache"
Why Are All The Artists So Damn Liberal?: "Spies Like Us"
The Value of the Negative: "Sorcerer"
What The Hell Does Any of This Even Mean?: "Jaws"
Furious Opposites: "The Big Heat"
The Seen And The Unseen: "Star Wars"