Films vs. Movies #36: The Monster Bash, Part I
Don J. is a cartoonist whose film experience includes cleaning up popcorn, soda spills, and Dots at a movie theater in South Jersey. He really wants to direct.
View ArticleFilms vs. Movies #37: The Monster Bash, Part II
Don J. is a cartoonist whose film experience includes cleaning up popcorn, soda spills, and Dots at a movie theater in South Jersey. He really wants to direct.
View ArticleOn the Couch: Fat Kid Rules the World
Hey, New York and Los Angeles, are you like super busy right now? Good, because you currently have access to a film called Fat Kid Rules The World. Who’s too busy to see that? (Rest of the world: if...
View ArticleViva Mabuse! #10: Oh, Great Pumpkin, Where are You?
I’m a believer in rhyming one’s recreational movie choices with the seasons—I also only drink IPAs in the summer, and stouts in the winter—and in fact I wrote a whole book with my wife about the...
View ArticleViva Mabuse! #11: All Hallows
Since we’re a week from Halloween, let’s take a moment here, because movies are what many of us do on Halloween, if we’re not dressed up like Head-Wound Dead Osama in somebody’s living room with a...
View ArticleHere & Now & Then: 1945
Halloween is defined by a fear of death even as it’s a celebration of life. For those among us who eagerly anticipate this strangest of holidays, there’s always a twinge of disappointment once dawn...
View ArticleFilms vs. Movies: The Monster Bash, Part V, The Final Chapter
Don J. is a cartoonist whose film experience includes cleaning up popcorn, soda spills, and Dots at a movie theater in South Jersey. He really wants to direct.
View ArticleFilms vs. Movies #91: Best In Show
Don J. is a cartoonist whose film experience includes cleaning up popcorn, soda spills, and Dots at a movie theater in South Jersey. He really wants to direct.
View ArticleOn the Couch: Truly Scary Movies
Ah, Halloween—that bastion of childhood revelry and adult sexual exhibitionism. It’s a magical time of year we celebrate with drugstore candy, theme cocktail-parties, and blood-soaked cinema. But as...
View ArticleViva Mabuse! #60: Halloweenistan
Halloween is uniquely positioned, holiday-wise, as a day reserved for movies. It has a huge genre all to itself (there’s no calendar event exclusively earmarked for science fiction or musicals or...
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