Brave New World: understanding the new cinema of the 2010s. [Part I]
Movies have been changing dramatically in this decade, the 2010s. What makes them different, and how do we define the new cinema?
Those guys I used to know: watching friends slide toward the alt-right.
I've now lost too many friends and acquaintances to a creeping moral darkness that is hard to fathom. This is the reality of the world we live in.
Recap: Days 3 & 4 of the Christopher Plummer Movie Blogathon!
In the films covered by these latest articles, Plummer plays everyone from Kaiser Wilhelm to the Emperor of the Galaxy in films ranging from stellar to...well, trash!
“Confirmation,” Hill and Thomas, and the future of the Supreme Court.
A movie about the famous 1991 battle over Clarence Thomas's nomination leaves us with a lot to think about as we face the next confirmation.
The HMO [Heavy Metal Overload] Top Albums of 2016.
Here are Heavy Metal Overload's choices for the best metal slabs of the year just past.
Looking back: a retrospective on 2016 in my life, and the world.
2016 was a terrible year, but there's also a seed of hope for the future.
Looking back: a retrospective of 2016 on this blog.
Here are what I think are the articles that represent the best work I did on this blog during 2016.
Environmental history on TV: “The Crown” and the 1952 Great Smog of London.
Leave it to an original Netflix series to depict environmental history as accurately as I've ever seen it on the screen.
Historical Movie Analysis: “Westworld” [video].
My first video Historical Movie Analysis considers the way the hit HBO series "Westworld" uses and deconstructs history, and how we see it.
REVIEW: Metallica – Hardwired…To Self-Destruct (2016)
Mike Ladano reviews Metallica's new slab. How does it sound to fans of the band's more "classic" era?