In Garry Trudeau’s animated short film, A Doonesbury Special, the stoner ex-hippie Zonker announces to his group of […]

Speculative fiction remains one of my favorite descriptive terms for genre fiction. Attributed to sci-fi legend Robert Heinlein […]

Chris Marker’s groundbreaking short film La Jetée doubles, incredibly, as one of the most lyrical meditations on two […]

The year is 1979.  America is awash in a sea of polyester, flared trousers, and long hair, bouncing […]

Celebrity culture has always involved emulation and envy.  People wanted to be as glamorous as Audrey Hepburn or […]

I have always been frustrated by the pervasive idea that the brain is like a computer.  In the […]

In the summer of 1977 a movie hit the multiplexes, twin cinemas, and dwindling drive-ins of America like […]

We got this piece seven months ago and shelved it because, at the time, it didn’t seem like […]