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Music Countdown

My favorite songs of 2023

January 18, 2024

Our author's first annual countdown of his favorite songs of the year

Camera Obscura

The Land of Oz/Ozma of Oz/Return to Oz

January 16, 2024

Oz is an absolutely bonkers place, if not quite as dark as the '80s made Gen-X believe it was.

Year of the Month

And Then There Were None

January 16, 2024

Looking at Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, specifically the 1945 movie by the same title.

Year of the Month

The Absurd Weight of Existence: Camus in 1942

January 15, 2024

“The Myth of Sisyphus” and Absurdism didn't happen in a vacuum.

Year of the Month

“The Aleph” and the Perils of the Full Picture

January 15, 2024

The limits of knowledge, and of cynicism.

Year of the Month

Have You Tried Not Being A Mutant?: X2 in 2023

December 31, 2023

Two decades will change your perspective.

Camera Obscura

The Off-Islanders/The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming

December 21, 2023

A Cold War comedy with an actual happy ending!

Year of the Month

NewsRadio’s cunning plans and crazy capers

November 28, 2023

One of the greatest sitcoms of all-time, NewsRadio uses its writing, cast, and staging and framing to perfect, maximum effect

Camera Obscura

The Stars in Their Courses/El Dorado

November 21, 2023

One of my favourite John Wayne movies and a book it's allegedly based on.

Celebrating the Living

Linda Lavin

November 12, 2023

A champion at playing working-class women