Cinemadope
Cinemadope: Death Valley
For all its sun, California has never lacked for shadows. Before their books were made into genre-defining films, writers like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett — authors who essentially invented hard-boiled detective fiction with books like The Big Sleep and The...
Cinemadope: Tingle All the Way
There are so many wonderful mysteries left in the world. In an era when so much can be laid bare with just a few keystrokes, it’s comforting, somehow, to know that there is much we don’t fully understand. Not just the odd bits here and there, but some fairly big...
Cinemadope: Holly Daze
It’s December again, somehow, which means that soon a great many of us will be flying, driving, or jumping on a train to visit our families and hunker down in the warm embrace of tradition. Yours and mine might look very different — mine tends to include long-winded...
Cinemadope: Mind Field
I’m rather ashamed to admit this, but the first time I stumbled across a copy of A Brief History of Time — not the book, but a VHS copy of the Errol Morris documentary it inspired — I dismissed it without much thought. To my teenaged self, there was something about...E-Edition
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