The First Ever Brows Held High Browsers Poll!

Greetings, lovely patrons!

As announced on my YouTube livestream [link: https://youtu.be/k6rSuzr-KIs ], my Patreon will now allow all patrons AND new ones pledging a dollar or more the chance to vote on the next episode!

I talk in more detail about the episode ideas in the stream, but here are the options:

Parasite: English, Language, Movies

A look at how the first non-English language winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture  uses the English language, and what Bong Joon-Ho's barrier-shattering 2019 class drama says about English, language, and movies. (captions are, of course, provided)

The Top 20 Comic Book Movies OF ALL TIME

Hell yeah, comics can be cinema! From the page to the screen, these are my TOP 20 COMIC BOOK MOVIES OF ALL TIME! (spoiler - Honorable Mentions: The Dark Knight, Blue is The Warmest Color, It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!)

Network: Thoughts On Being Mad As Hell

Sidney Lumet's timeless masterpiece re-examined as a psychological horror. What being Mad As Hell means when, in the age of the internet, everyone has the chance to become Howard Beale. 

The Name Of The Rose: Umberto Eco and Semiotics

Umberto Eco was not a career anti-fascist scholar, but a novelist. But that doesn't mean his novels aren't relevant to today. A look at the 1986 adaptation of his bestselling 1980 medieval murder mystery and how semiotics - the study of signs, symbols, and meaning - are vital to understand today.

Bisexual Lighting REDUX

It's been three years since I did a video about so-called Bisexual Lighting. Revisiting the concept after years and after the fad has since become standardized, what that color scheme has come to mean in cinema, and in bisexual culture.

THE League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Video

I have been obsessed with Alan Moore's own favorite work of his for decades now. It's a deep deconstruction of how mainstream comics operate and the implications that has for the future of storytelling. With more and more major studios gathering increasingly vast libraries of thematically unrelated intellectual property, The Greatest Crossover Of All Time only gets more relevant with each year.

Bo Burnham: Inside and the Cinema of the Interior

Ah, the Great Indoors. Filmmakers (and online content creators) have long explored interior spaces and their effects on human psychology, but after a year of global quarantine, Bo Burnham's feat of filmmaking hits hard. Where that puts him in the canon of great interior films - from Maya Deren and Shirley Clarke, to Martin Scorsese and Chantal Akerman, to Liu Jiayin and Jafar Panahi.

Polling will last a week, and the winner will be announced at next week's livestream on my YouTube Channel. 

I'm so excited to being you all into this process! DTF stands for Death To Fascism,

- K