Catherine O'Hara was a terrific comedic actress, known for Beetlejuice , Home Alone , Schitt's Creek and all those mockumentaries...

She had a face like a bulldog, with a lantern jaw, bulbous nose, and heavy bags under deep-set eyes. Her pear-shaped body sagged, her voic...

This review is adapted from my (in)famous eight-part, 12,000 word essay on the Marx Brothers which you can start reading here ... if...

This review is adapted from my (in)famous eight-part, 12,000 word essay on the Marx Brothers which you can start reading here ... if you...

The story of a girl from the country who makes it big in Hollywood was a staple of the silent era — see, e.g., A Girl's Folly , Souls f...

In between binge-eating and binge-napping, Katie-Bar-The-Door and I spent our Thanksgiving holidays binge-watching Aaron Sorkin's The Ne...

While I'm a forgiving critic, I don't think I'm prone to hyperbole. So when I tell you that I think The Good Place might be the...

Tomorrow is the fiftieth anniversary of the network premiere of Lost in Space. To celebrate, I'm posting a series of essays includin...

Sullivan's Travels (1941) Tired of churning out crowd-pleasing comedies such as Ants in Your Plants of 1939 , director John Sullivan (...