I don’t do much for Halloween. I don’t dress up. I don’t decorate or wait for kids to show up and extort candy from me. What I do, is watch movies. Any excuse to justify […]
Month: October 2019
The Photos of Guy Bourdin
Dark. Disturbing. Violent. Women as victims. The photos of Guy Bourdin often make people uneasy. Especially, given that these were commercial, fashion, photos that appeared in the pages of Vogue or in ads for Charles […]
A Photo That Matters
This photograph isn’t fake. There’s no photoshop trickery involved. It was taken by a woman named Kristi McCluer. She captured this moment of men playing golf as the Eagle Rock, Oregon, wildfire raged behind them. […]
Three by Yates
English Director Peter Yates was nominated for Best Director awards in both Britain and America for his film, THE DRESSER, in 1983. It actually won a slew of international prizes and critical praise. The thing […]
I Miss Godzilla
This post was originally going to be about why the American, big-budget, Godzilla films are always so horrible and the early, “real” ones, are so good. It was to be a celebration timed to go […]
A Collection of Brilliant J.G. Ballard Book Covers
“Ballardian” is actually a word. According to the Collins English Dictionary it means “resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J. G. Ballard’s novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the […]
