“Humor Is A Weapon: A Conversation with John Waters”
At Roger Ebert.com, Marya E. Gates has a great conversation with John Waters. Read it here.
Summer Fun Time Reading ’26
It’s not meteorological summer here in the Northern Hemisphere yet, but it’s June. It’s hot and my a/c is on. I have been sticky with sweat and sunscreen. I have had my first Arnold Palmer of the season.(And my first Dinah Shore—lemonade with seltzer). It is summer as […]
Don Hertzfeldt is on YouTube!
Don Hertzfeldt has a new channel on YouTube and has started uploading all his animated shorts, including “Rejected” and episodes of World of Tomorrow! You can see them here. (Via Mx. Fee)
Serial Murder and Suburban Ennui in the August Underground Trilogy
August Underground (2001) is one of those films defined by word of mouth and rumors. When it came out, the internet wasn’t as all-encompassing as it is now; things were still spread manually, passed around in niche underground networks. The internet was still in its “wild west” phase, […]
Four Decades of the Guerilla Girls!
At Bullseye, Jesse Thorn interviews “Kathe Kollwitz,” a founding member of the revolutionary art collective, Guerilla Girls! “In 1984, a group of women started an art collective called the Guerrilla Girls. The group was created in response to the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition: “An International Survey of […]
The Feminine Critique: “Julie & Julia & Julia Ducournau’s Titane!”
At the Feminine Critique Podcast, “in their quest to amp up some coverage of lady director movies, Emily and Christine find some common threads between 2009’s Julie and Julia (directed by Nora Ephron) and 2021’s Titane (directed by Julia Ducournau). Somehow it all makes sense.” Listen here.
