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This isn’t going to be a traditional review or an opinion piece on the Netflix’s Nothing Special. I can’t be objective about it. I’m a deep fan of comedian Norm Macdonald. I have been since I was 14 years old. I borrowed a lot of his act…

At one level, I Think You Should Leave follows in the stalwart tradition of improv-inspired sketch comedy. A lot of its talent (including the co-creator Tim Robinson) are former cast members of Saturday Night Live or members of Chicago…

Master of None has been tiptoeing away from its comedic roots from the beginning.  The first season dove into social commentary and dipped its toe into emotional stuff, but never veered too far outside of a personality-driven comedic…

Kindergarten Cop turns 30 years old this month. In its time it was considered an awkward child: too grim for kids and too pandering for adults. It was, in fact, exactly what it was supposed to be though: the pubescent stage of the…

Animal House turns forty this year and it was the paradigm of an entirely new genre: the college movie. The movie is tasteless, but that’s part of its message.  The first of a new iteration has the most fascinating layers to it because what…

The 90s were the decade of many crude nods to some sort of neo-counter-culture/burgeoning-cyber-culture. Skateboards were mixed with savage sans serif font to indicate that some something savage yet marketable was going on.  It was a cyborg…

The Beguiled stars Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell in a re-envisioning of the 1971 original film of an American Civil War-era southern gothic suspense.  The setting is a smoky, war-ridden Eden overrun with lack of care.  Corporal McBurney…

If I were to remember Adam West for one thing, then it is the strength of his selfhood.  An actor working in the business for over fifty years, West was best known for his tenure on the campy 1960s’ Batman.  Throughout the remainder of his…

HeadStuff is currently publishing a series of weekly articles on how the journalistic process is depicted on film – the intense research involved in the practice, the time it takes to articulate a story, and the false intimacies that come…

Donald Quist trusts in the clarity and outlook of his talent, which has emerged in a myriad of roles: fiction writer, playwright, reporter, podcast host and educator. Only recently has he focused his efforts on telling his own story.…