Retro Remote

Pete Kelly’s Blues

[20.Oct.09] :. Jack Webb's glum radio series 'Pete Kelly's Blues' is a sigh of a tribute to the roaring '20s, a melancholic parade of blistering jazz and the pointlessness of its own nostalgia.
 

The Frontier Doctor’s Fancy ‘Queen of the Cimarron’

[23.Sep.09] :. Frontier Doctor's church-prescribing gumdrop-toting hero comes face to face with the unthinkable: a tough-talkin' hard-done bad-girl with money on her mind (gulp).
 

All in the Family: Gloria Sings the Blues

[27.Aug.09] :. Where a thousand stone-faced social dramas have despaired over the decay of interpersonal relations and marital unity, this is the interpersonal angst of an Ingmar Bergman movie saved by a sitcom ending and a live studio audience.
 

In the Wrestling Ring with Ric Flair, Where ‘Evil is the Natural Climate’

[21.Jul.09] :. Ric Flair epitomizes Roland Barthes' 'perfect bastard', adopting a cowardly and devious state of jerkdom, elevating his coarse existence into some quasi-mythological state of being.
 

‘Have Gun - Will Travel’: Return to Fort Benjamin

[18.Jun.09] :. With attempted justifications of military torture on our minds, Retro Remote heads back to the '50s TV Western to find a surprisingly tough moral stance on the U.S. military's destruction of human dignity and dehumanisation of 'enemy combatants'.
 

Gidget’s ‘Dear Diary—et al.’ – and All that May Imply

[8.May.09] :. As things start getting a little steamy, Retro Remote 'sinks into nothingness' trying to mix Gidget and some serious film theory.