Movies
Righting The Bounty
This much we know for sure. On October the 15th, 1787, the HMAV Bounty set out on a mission to acquire breadfruit from Tahiti for transport to Jamaica. We know that the Bounty never completed […]
Month: August 2016
Movies
Eureka! I’ve Found It!
by Nathanael Hood He falls feet-first into the chasm and rises amongst columns of gold. Gold dust dances in the air like sieved flour. The antediluvian towers shimmer in the dark like galaxies. He strikes […]
Animation
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Flowers and Trees (1932)
In 1929, Walt Disney and composer Carl Stalling collaborated on the creation of a new series for the Disney animation crew: episodic cartoons based around particular melodies, in which the action was driven not by […]
Movies
A Tame Black Widow (1987)
For the loud-mouthed Texan toymaker, the object of his affection is a big, brassy strawberry blonde; her inch-long red nails jutting from her fingertips like knives. For the effete and lonely museum curator, she’s small and […]
Movies
Satan Met a Lady (And She Had Bette Davis Eyes)
by Cassie Brown If you go searching for Ted Shane, you should look where there’s the most trouble. The detective, and lady’s man, is on to his next case in 1936’s Satan Met a Lady, directed […]
Opinion
Brigitte Bardot is The Worst Spy Ever. (But Still Sexy AF)
The Pictorial Palette is a creative exercise that selects a still from a classic film and explores its color patterns. It is our hope that these little swaths of color will provide a needed burst of energy– perhaps even inspire a smidgen of creativity–to […]