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In 1976, the year of the Bicentennial, I did a huge job for Benton & Bowles, an advertising agency that was a regular client...
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Classic movie dialogue comee in two flavors: the ones people quote even if they’ve never seen the movie (“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”)...
G.D. Spradlin lived to ninety years old but chances are you didn’t meet him until he was in his fifties. His name may be...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
In 1976, the year of the Bicentennial, I did a huge job for Benton & Bowles, an advertising agency that was a regular client...
The nineteen seventies—or, as many of us who lived then thought of it, the much much later nineteen sixties, with better drugs, better night...
Editor’s note: When given the opportunity to interview The Daily Show‘s Zhubin Parang, I realized that the piece would benefit from the point of...
Welcome to Part 3 of The Superman Round Table or as they sometime say in the funnybooks, “Lo, There Shall Come an Ending!” If...
Welcome to Part 2 of The Superman Round Table. If you missed Part 1, Click HERE! Once again, our participants: Andre Bennett Broadcast/Digital Journalist...
Welcome to our latest Round Table discussion! It’s been a while since we’ve done this, but hopefully will become a more regular feature. This...
The Simpsons’ “22 Short Films About Springfield” isn’t actually a parody of François Girard’s 1993 genre-crossing film about the life of Canadian pianist...
There is a word I never expected to associate with a narrative as sprawling as The Sandman, but it’s unavoidable: the second season feels...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
The legend of the Fantastic Four supposedly begins in 1961 with a golf game between Timely Comics publisher Martin Goodman and DC Comics publisher...
A week or so ago, I posted a comment in response to a FACEBOOK post that posed the question, and I paraphrase, “Considering how...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
In 1938, two teenagers from Cleveland, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created one of the greatest characters in the history of pop culture, Superman. ...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
Despite the casual loathing of Jews everywhere, despite the millennia old blood libel, the Third Reich was only able to make that loathing lethal...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
…AND I’M GONNA SAY IT NOW. I recently hired the son of a friend to do a bit of cleanup of the mess that...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
When I was growing up, much of my generation seemed to always want to know about who and what had come before. We embraced...
FIRST AS CAUTION, SECOND AS CALAMITY. I am an American, and to once again paraphrase and borrow from the work of another apparently difficult...