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Stuff My Kids Watch

The Fearless Charm of Hilda

April 2, 2019

What if Miyazaki were doing vaguely Scandinavian fantasy?

Intersectional Femivision

In the Good Old Shop Around the Corner

March 26, 2019

In comparing In the Good Old Summertime and You’ve Got Mail, both adaptations of the play The Parfumerie (1937), I feel the personalities of the characters must be the first thing discussed. Many differences exist between the two leads in the films, although, I have to say fewer exist in the supporting roles. The environment that the eventual love match […]

Strange Days

March 25, 2019

One of many movies that could have done more with Angela Bassett.

Drunk Napoleon Listens To Bob Dylan: God, The Devil, and Bob

March 25, 2019

Does he have to speak for God in that scratchy voice?

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Is About a Lot More Than “Diamonds”

March 21, 2019

Female friendship and star quality in glorious Technicolor.

This Is It: The Highly Specific Universals in One Day at a Time, or Peak TV Is More Than Bad Men Doing Interesting Things

March 15, 2019

The comedies and lighter works in “Peak TV” also deserved attention.

Disney Byways

Darby O’Gill and the Little People

March 15, 2019

A Disney story that includes the darker bits of Irish mythology, an absentee landlord, and wacky hijinks.

Stuff My Kids Watch

Learning Nuance and Film Vocabulary with Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia

March 15, 2019

My daughter and her love of Guillermo Del Toro.

Metal Gear Solid 2: I’ll get an action movie with everything on it

March 11, 2019

A deranged, ambitious, overly sincere essay on a deranged, ambitious, overly sincere game.

Intersectional Femivision

“Why Are You Watching That?”: True Crime and the Power of Hope

March 7, 2019

What’s left when all is lost.