Rob Hutton·Jun 20The Many Lives of Billy MilliganDaniel Keyes has one of the strangest bibliographies of any American writer. After working as a writer and editor at Atlas Comics, the…
Rob Hutton·Apr 21Just Because They’re Out To Get You, Doesn’t Mean You’re Not ParanoidMany have commented on how recent Best Picture winner One Battle After Another feels temporally out of place. The Paul Thomas Anderson film…
Rob Hutton·Feb 15The Curse and the Humiliation of HeterosexualityThere’s a moment in The Curse, Nathan Fielder’s TV miniseries, where Emma Stone’s character Whitney lashes out at Fielder’s Asher after…
Rob Hutton·Jun 11, 2023Come and See, and the Impossibility of Anti-War ArtI recently watched the Russian classic Come and See, which had been on my to-do list forever. The film is rightfully described as one of…A response icon1A response icon1
Rob Hutton·Feb 25, 2021“The Plot Against America” and Racial ApocalypsesWhen Philip Roth published his novel The Plot Against America it was 2004, shortly before George W. Bush’s re-election. The novel tells…
Rob Hutton·Feb 3, 2021The Sleazy Glory of Who Wants $2.69?Martin Urbano is the most miraculously uncancelled man in comedy. Every week, he goes live on Twitch and talks about his fondness for the…
Rob Hutton·Nov 3, 2020The Anti-Politics of Joe BidenJoe Biden is mostly defined by what he’s not. Can you become President that way?
Rob Hutton·Feb 21, 2020Just Remember That Death Is Not The End (of The Good Place)In Mur Lafferty’s Heaven, protagonist Kate dies and finds herself in heaven along with her best friend Daniel. Daniel, who she always had…
Rob Hutton·Feb 6, 2020Does Parasite want us to eat the rich?Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite has proven to be that rarest of objects: a foreign language film that crosses over to mainstream success in the…
