Toy Story: “The Boy Is Mine”
I’m still not entirely sure if editing videos will become a second avocation for me, much less replace this first one. But a few days ago, this idea came to […]
I’m still not entirely sure if editing videos will become a second avocation for me, much less replace this first one. But a few days ago, this idea came to […]
A straight stretch of train tracks extend into oblivion, their iron rumbling with a whispered threat. In the gentle town nearby, two solemn and innocent ceremonies take place at the […]
The Introduction The first of three films in which Sidney Poitier starred in 1967, To Sir, With Love is a modest, workaday film that quickly withdrew before the trumpeted ambitions of In […]
Music has always hit me in a place deeper than my critical faculties. The goosebump effect is the kind of private pleasure that is thoroughly good and affirming. The enjoyment […]
The music video is one of the youngest art forms in the world, so young that calling it an “art form” might still raise eyebrows in some quarters. Next we’ll […]
Few things that I heard in college have stuck with me better than what a professor in a music appreciation class my freshman year said about the development of musical […]
This is musical blasphemy, of course, and cinematically dubious to boot. But this is probably the funnest double feature idea I’ve suggested in several months, and “fun” ought to be […]
A screen on a stage. And then another stage. And a typewriter. Stories of stories of stories. The postmodern playfulness of Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! has been commented upon endlessly, but […]
It’s ten years old, and that’s a pretty lonely age to be for a pop single — way past its moment in the sun, but perhaps still too young for […]
This is the start of a new feature on this blog. Having just decided to stop writing word study posts every month, I’ve immediately come up with a new “placeholder” […]