I didn’t sleep real well last night, like I don’t most nights. It’s been this way since early childhood, and I used to just assume everyone laid… Read more “Smoky, Drowsy Reverb of Dawn”
Category: Film
Beauty and the Beast
I was nine years old when the animated version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast came out, but I was probably ten when it came to VHS and… Read more “Beauty and the Beast”
Current Obsessions
As you probably already know, I left my library job at the beginning of February to write full-time, and I’m now working on my novel in earnest.… Read more “Current Obsessions”
Harry Potter and the Too Much Yelling
Much later update: J.K. Rowling is a terrible person. We didn’t know that yet when this was originally written. Please take into account. Like almost every other… Read more “Harry Potter and the Too Much Yelling”
Trouble in Paradise
Trouble in Paradise (1932) is a witty and racy pre-Code comedy that tells the story of two master con-artists (Herbert Marshall and the inimitable Miriam Hopkins) who fall… Read more “Trouble in Paradise”
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
Rouben Mamoulian’s 1931 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is obsessed with the human face. It knows there is no better register for fear, longing, dread,… Read more “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)”
Actors in Classic Films Perfectly Reacting to 2016
It’s been a hell of a year. Here are some classic film screenshots that perfectly express how we’ve felt about 2016. Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde… Read more “Actors in Classic Films Perfectly Reacting to 2016”
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Heat was one of the most intense and gritty noir films made during the genre’s two decade prime. Arriving in the latter half of that… Read more “The Big Heat (1953)”
The Birds (1963)
The Birds is perhaps the strangest film Alfred Hitchcock ever made, or at least the most unlikely. Though the film’s tension comes more from suspense than horror,… Read more “The Birds (1963)”
Bright Star (2009)
Bright Star (2009) is a film of such tender, unguarded emotion, about such honest, bare affection, it could be written off by an immature viewer as a flight… Read more “Bright Star (2009)”
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