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Presenting my 2014 yulemix, The Yule Analog, compiled with respect and affection for you, the listener.

Chris Klimek

Ooooooh, D'Angelo just returned from exile with a surprise album dropped online in the back half of December! Big deal; I do that every year. This one, The Yule Analog, is my first release in twelve months. Kindly react with due awe.

One thing remains as apparent as ever: I am obsessed with old shit. The Yule Analog – Vol. 9 in my apparently unkillable Yuletunes Eclectic & Inexplicable series, subtitled Cowboy Santa Claus – is imbued with the music and radio and pop culture of the 1940s through the 1970s. The last song I chose – a song I loved the first time I heard it on KCRW in 2001 and then forgot about for years until I heard John Hodgman play it at Aimee Mann's Christmas show at The Birchmere last night – is just barely from the current century. My mixtape makes a few reluctant sops to the present day, but only a few. I am The Ghost of Christmas Long, Long Past.

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categories audio, music
tags yuletunes, yulemixes, Christmas

It's a Straight: Poker Night, reviewed.

Chris Klimek

Beau Mirchoff has the cheek to try to play a tough-guy lead in Poker Night.

Beau Mirchoff has the cheek to try to play a tough-guy lead in Poker Night.

I don't know anything about poker, but I gave writer/director Greg Francis' feature debut Poker Night 2.5 out of a possible five starts for The Dissolve. Which according to this ranking of various hands in poker, makes it the equivalent of a straight.

Sorry about the gross photo. I didn't have many choices.

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categories movies
tags Greg Francis, Ron Perlman, film reviews, The Dissolve

On Around Town, discussing Theater J's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide and Arena's Fiddler on the Roof

Chris Klimek

We take you once again to the studios of WETA, where I was delighted as ever to join Around Town host Robert Aubry Davis and Washington Post arts writer Jane Horwitz for on-message discussions of two shows I recently reviewed for the Washington City Paper. We covered Theater J’s production of Tony Kusher’s latest play, the exhausting (deep breath) The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, as well as Arena's square and satisfying production of Fiddler on the Roof – my first. That's the one I'll be sending my folks to see for Christmas.

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categories theatre, Video
tags WETA Around Town, Tony Kushner, Arena Stage, Theater J, Fiddler on the Roof

Won't Someone Please Think of the 'Tweens? The PG-13 at 30.

Chris Klimek

Amrish Puri rips out the heart of mainstream cinema in 1984's Temple of Doom.

Amrish Puri rips out the heart of mainstream cinema in 1984's Temple of Doom.

To wrap up The Dissolve's Movie of the Week examination of Joe Dante's Gremlins, Keith Phipps asked me to write a reflection on the PG-13, the lukewarm rating introduced in the summer of 1984 in response to the outcry that greeted the PG-rated Gremlins' violence and darkness, as well as that of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, released two weeks earlier. I was honored to oblige.

A surprising, random fact of which I was unaware: Gremlins, a horror comedy and the fourth-highest grossing film of 1984, was released the very same day as that year's second-biggest hit, Ivan Reitman's horror comedy Ghostbusters. That would never happen now, and yet apparently it didn't hurt either of those films back then. Neither of them could out-earn Beverly Hills Cop, however. The fact an R-rated action comedy was the biggest hit of the year is another reminder of how much Hollywood has changed in a generation-and-a-half.

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categories movies
tags The Dissolve, censorship, MPAA, PG-13, Gremlins, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Steven Spielberg

Suicide Admission: Theater J's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide, reviewed.

Chris Klimek

Tom Wiggin, right, is the emotional anchor of this discursive and pointy-headed gabfest.

Tom Wiggin, right, is the emotional anchor of this discursive and pointy-headed gabfest.

My review of Theater J's production of Tony Kusher's latest play, (deep breath) The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, is in today's Washington City Paper, just in case your own family's arguments aren't sufficiently academic and orotund and insufferable enough for you. Good performances, though. Happy Thanksgiving.

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categories theatre
tags Tony Kushner, Theater J, Washington City Paper, Tim Getman, Tom Wiggin, Susan Rome, John Vreeke