|Chris Polley| As I recall, my first exposure to superheroes was not via some personal, transformative comic book shop experience, nor with an obscure film contemporaneous to my early-mid 90s childhood like The Meteor Man. Instead, it was on television. Continue reading
|Matt Levine| An extremely loose retelling of the founding of Def Jam Records by Russell Simmons (here named Walker) and Rick Rubin, Michael Schultz’s Krush Groove (1985) offers a number of cinematic pleasures. But let’s be honest: this movie is all about the soundtrack. Continue reading
|Joe Midthun| I grew up in the middle of the woods. Twelve miles south of the nearest rural village, my world lay tucked into the pines at the end of a quarter mile dirt driveway. The radio was constantly on—a helpful reminder that we were not alone. But, the television, our 19 inch crystal ball… Continue reading
