Who’s the Leader of the Club? Reflections on cute propaganda in the age of creeping fascism

I once thought the combination of propaganda and crowd control was never practiced more effectively in this country than in the lead up to the Patriot Act. We live in a brave new world in which our bodies, our possessions, and virtually everything we say and do are under a microscope whenever we travel by …

The Legend of Hell House – Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts hosted the exhibition Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters on March 5-May 28, 2017, dedicated to the film director's collection of movie props, art, books, and comics that populate his home like the set of a 1940s Universal horror movie. The exhibition glosses Famous Monsters of Filmland’s editor Forry …