Dead Again (1991)
Dead Again is a 1991 neo-noir romantic thriller film directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by Scott Frank. It stars Branagh and Emma Thompson, with Andy García, Derek Jacobi, Hanna…
Imaginary Worlds: Music of a Forbidden Planet
In the 1950s, the avant-garde music scene in New York and the movie studios of Los Angeles might have seemed like opposite ends of a cultural spectrum. But they came…
CARELESS WHISPERS (Japanese Version 1984)
Hideki Saijo
I Was a Teenage Zombie (1987)
I Was a Teenage Zombie is a 1987 American comedy horror film. The film begins with teens looking to purchase some marijuana. The film plays with comedy horror conventions, when…
Song Exploder: A-ha “Take On Me”
“Take On Me” by A-ha is an iconic hit of the 1980s. It came out in October 1985 with an equally iconic music video that helped define the age of…
Sorcerer (film)
Sorcerer is a 1977 American neo-noir action drama thriller film produced and directed by William Friedkin and starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and Amidou. It is the second…
Fugitive Love
Marguerite Young’s search for utopia
Tinker Taylor
LITTLE WALTER’S “Blues with a Feeling” is a majestic song whose title is kind of redundant. Blues is a feeling, whether filtered through Hank Williams’s full-moon howling or channeled through…
99% Invisible: The Power Broker #13: Drop Dead City
Like a shadow epilogue to The Power Broker, this story plunges into the chaos of 1970s New York where debt, unions, and one brutal headline nearly broke the city.