When Brian Wilson died last week, a couple of film fans I know turned to Love & Mercy, the biopic about the legendary musician.
Beach Party (1963)

When Brian Wilson died last week, a couple of film fans I know turned to Love & Mercy, the biopic about the legendary musician.
The doomed Terra Nova expedition for the South Pole in 1912 ranks just behind the sinking of the RMS Titanic in the public imagination of tragedies symbolic of early-20th-century English decline.
(FULL SPOILERS FOLLOW)
Rope is a bit of an odd duck in the Alfred Hitchcock canon, both transitional and anomalous.
This is an article I’ve been wanting to write for several years.
The devil comes in many forms, but sometimes he just carries a guitar.
Hey friends – I’m excited to share with you a project that my friend is working on.
If you saw either my 2024 Mini-Review Roundup series or else my 2024 B.A.D.S., you’re probably tired of my end-of-year content.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
As I watched nearly a hundred 2024 films, I wrote full length reviews of some of them, and incomplete drafts of many more.