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Intrusive Thoughts

Grimy ’70s Vision

March 30, 2022

There's just something gritty and beige about '70s movies.

Attention Must Be Paid

Lillian Randolph

February 26, 2022

Lillian Randolph played a whole lot of maids, including the Baileys', and did a whole lot more behind the scenes.

Hail Margaret: The Marx Brothers’ Not-So-Secret Weapon

February 24, 2022

The art of keeping a straight face.

Streaming Shuffle

1BR

January 26, 2022

Finding a good apartment can be a nightmare.

Your Lifestyle’s Too Extreme: Gender in Dog Day Afternoon and The Rocky Horror Picture Show

January 10, 2022

Life lived in between.

Ruth Buzzi

December 26, 2021

Ruth Buzzi is more fascinating than you'd ever expect.

Year of the Month

After All, Miss, This Is France: Beauty and the Beast (1946)

December 20, 2021

A tale beyond time.

Year of the Month

After the War: The Best Years of Our Lives

December 13, 2021

Returning isn’t always easy.

Attention Must Be Paid

Sessue Hayakawa

November 13, 2021

One of Hollywood's first sex symbols had a career deeply damaged by the same racism that kind of made him a star.

In Memoriam

I Got Sick of It and I Just Stopped: Tommy Kirk, 1941-2021

September 30, 2021

Tommy Kirk was misused by the film industry, and that he lived as long as he did is worth noting.

Deconstructing 1971 – Two-Lane Blacktop / The Last Movie

September 23, 2021

A story of two films forged in the turmoil of the early 1970s, one that you couldn’t properly see until the late 1990s, the other, that you couldn’t see at all until 2018.

Year of the Month

Love Kills: The War of the Roses

August 13, 2021

“When a couple starts keeping score, there is no winning. It’s only degrees of losing.”