It speaks to the presence of mind demanded of America’s highest political office that, were Joseph R. Biden Jr. to be elected president this November, he wouldn’t stand as the first commander-in-chief to occupy the […]
BPoFD Podcast Episode #26: Oscars 2020 with William Glick
In Episode #26 of the BPoFD podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio again sits down with playwright and Oscars historian William Glick to discuss the 2020 Academy Awards. Highlights include predictions for the five major categories, Carmen’s […]
2019 Top Ten Lists With Zero Explanations
Top Ten Movies of 2019 1. Uncut Gems 2. Richard Jewell 3. Marriage Story 4. Parasite 5. Under the Silver Lake 6. Midsommar 7. The Irishman 8. The Beach Bum 9. The Lighthouse 10. JOKER xx Top Five Albums of 2019 (Only Five, Dying […]
The BPoFD Top 25 Films of the 2010s
Here are the 25 best films of the 2010s, as determined by the editorial board of Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators. The films are ordinally ranked by the magnitude of their aesthetic achievement. The BPoFD […]
The Strawberry Criterion: JOKER
Few works of art are less dangerous than a work of art billed as “dangerous,” especially when the ones doing the billing are the feckless, fangless goobers of contemporary cinema’s critical class. Since its premiere, […]
BPoFD Recommends: Fruition of the Damned — Emergence
Near the beginning of Emergence, the second book in Keenan Carola and Jeremy McKinnon’s Fruition of the Damned graphic novel series, our young hero, Leafio, stands before a mountain at the bottom of an ocean. From the peak, […]
The Strawberry Criterion: MIDSOMMAR
At least to date, the horror films of Ari Aster have shown two principal areas of interest, grief and cults, topics the writer-director tends to explore in that same, deliberate order. In Hereditary, his debut feature […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Green Book
In Green Book, director Peter Farrelly’s Oscar-nominated follow-up to Dumb & Dumber To, Viggo Mortensen plays Frank Vallelonga, a nightclub bouncer whose nickname, “Tony Lip,” derives from his distinction as the “best bullshit artist in The Bronx.” […]
BPoFD Podcast Episode #25: Oscars 2019 with William Glick
In Episode #25 of the BPoFD podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio again sits down with playwright and Oscars historian William Glick to discuss the 2019 Academy Awards. Highlights include predictions for all eight major categories, Carmen’s anti-anti-Italian discrimination […]
