The Big Sleep
The hardboiled protagonist has developed a sentimentality-proof exoskeleton.
Field Notes
Before analysis can begin, we must venture out and collect data.
Tender Mercies
A chastened, bewildered, deeply grateful vector of southern-fried redemptive forces.
Future Peril
How to talk to people 10,000 years in the future.
District 9
He’s a prawn trapped in a net.
Goodfellas
They refuse to live like “schnooks.”
Virus X
A meme that has propagated from one pulp genre to another…
The Little Princess
“One soldier more or less doesn’t make any difference, you know.”
The Lady Vanishes
“Bless me, what an unpleasant journey!”
In Love with the Actress
"She was playing a part that I could understand."
Wild in the Streets
Shelley Winters struggles to close the generation gap.
Love, Dr. Strange
He looks like a man who’s been through an ordeal.
The Guv’nor
His commitment to peripatetic idling never wavers.
Origin of the Pogo
The role of anthropologists is to interpret the guiding symbols of each culture.
The Asphalt Jungle
The least understood aspect of the human psyche is the ego.