WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?

On this week’s Movie Podcast, Drew (of Command-V) and I dissect another 60′s camp classic, “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” We talk about the feuds, the Psycho influences, and the Grand Guignol theater.

Half an hour of angry, too-much-makeup goodness!

QUIET END OF AN ERA Are you sitting down? Good.  Because I have something to tell you: the public can be very uninformed.  Are you still sitting?  Good.  Because I also want to tell you that celebrities hold a startling amount of power over the public’s attention. Now that the room has stopped swimming for [...]

Enjoy Part 1, about Batman, The Dark Knight and Christopher Nolan, and then Part 2, for 70′s filmmaking, Inception and Civil Rights:

“Mississippi Goddam” epitomizes the art adage that the more specific the piece, the more universal the appeal.  Nina Simone sings heartily and hurtfully about her rage at the Black Civil Rights Movement during the 60′s.  When she sang, they were in the thick of it.  She raged at the government, she raged at the bigots, [...]