The Criterion Contraption

My first book, The Gag Man: Clyde Bruckman and the Birth of Film Comedy has been officially released. You can buy it directly from the publ...

My first book, The Gag Man: Clyde Bruckman and the Birth of Film Comedy now has an official release date, a final cover, and a blurb from W...

Hola, amigos. It's been a long time since I rapped at ya, so here are links to a lot of new work I've done for The Dissolve . First,...

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be expanding an article I wrote for The Dissolve into a book for The Critical Press . Here's...

All credit to Chuck Jordan for the title of this post. I've written something new for the Dissolve, about puppies. Dog trainers, movies...

In further non-Criterion-Contraption news, I wrote a feature for The Dissolve about the challenges of film preservation in the digital age,...

I've written a piece for Slate about Charlie Brooker's show Black Mirror (I'm a fan).