Year of the Month
A farmers daughter goes to the big city to be a nurse and ends up a senator.
Intrusive Thoughts
A former Altadenan's view of what the Eaton Fire destroyed that even non-Altadenans know.
Year of the Month
Wherever you go, you have to live with yourself.
Attention Must Be Paid
A wild woman with a wild career who acted with an astonishing array of people.
Year of the Month
Out of the Past features Robert Mitchum, at his all-time best, playing a proto-loser, whose downward trajectory departs from more traditional noirs, such as The Big Sleep, and previews the 70s neo-noirs, such as Chinatown.
Year of the Month
A widow buys a haunted house by the sea.
The Nickel Boys welcome you to a look back at the movies this past year.
Intrusive Thoughts
Musing on the "fullscreen versions" of days gone by.
Streaming Shuffle
Sorting out dramatic motivations, limitations, and priorities on the eve of the 2008 financial crash.
Celebrating the Living
The woman who made American Psycho worth watching!
Attention Must Be Paid
The Drunk Barrymore, the Great Profile--an enormous talent whose light was dimmed by alcoholism and an unenviable personal life.