Kerrie Mills is a Canadian cultural critic and writer who has been exploring the Technicolour waters of pop-culture to online laughs and acclaim since 2002. She recently added significant print acclaim to her resume as the author of the PopMatters article Bob & Ray: The Two and Only, reprinted as liner notes in a recent CD retrospective.
Features
Tuesday, April 14 2009
All the Faith in the World: Holiday
Holiday is the sort of movie that gives those who do know it the satisfyingly superior glow of being in on something really good.
Friday, March 28 2008
Bob & Ray: The Two and Only
Turning back the clock, Kerrie Mills explores the pairing of two men who became cornerstones of modern American comedy, as well as icons of the mid-20th century media landscape, Bob & Ray.
Reviews
Thursday, July 26 2012
Black Like Me: The 50th Anniversary Edition by John Howard Griffin
This is a book that discusses, quite simply, man’s inhumanity to man – man’s denial of humanity to man -- on a sort of ground-floor instinctual level that not only compels the reader to respond in kind, but further insists they think about their response.
Wednesday, June 27 2012
The Ever-Changing Story of Us: 'A Brief History of Diaries: From Pepys to Blogs'
In a hundred pages, Alexandra Johnson expertly captures the elusive fascination of mankind's fascination with itself.
Monday, June 25 2012
The Best American Travel Writing 2011, by Sloane Crosley (ed.)
The intensely personal relationship between travel writer and reader proves difficult to boil down into a formula omnibus.
Wednesday, January 11 2012
PJ O'Rourke Takes a Holiday from Relevance in 'Holidays in Heck'
Legendary humourist PJ O’Rourke probably could stand some nice normal-type family vacations more than most. Whether they're good for his writing career, on the other hand, is a fairly open question.
Wednesday, November 9 2011
Playwriting for Dummies: When What You Really Want to Do Is Direct
This is not actually about how to become a Molière; as it turns out there isn’t really a place for him anymore, or for much else in the playwriting field, apparently.
Blogs
Monday, January 23 2012
The Most Reluctant Spy: Sky One's 'Spy'
Spy is honestly a wonderful thing to watch. Basically, everything that's wrong with this show is technical, fixable stuff. What's right about it -- if nurtured properly -- has the opportunity to become one of the classic Britcoms of the new decade.
Thursday, November 10 2011
Horrible Histories: Or, How Children's TV Grew Up in a Hurry
Nominally a kiddie series, the TV adaptation of Horrible Histories has a sharp comic intelligence. It might just be one of the most successful original comedy shows to appear in years.
Monday, October 17 2011
The 10 Most Spectacular Screwups in Television History
Come with us now (rattles chains, Marley-style) as we take a cautionary look back at the 10 most spectacular mistakes of TV executives past…
Friday, July 22 2011
'Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?' The Answer May Not Surprise You
Generation X's obsession with their own entertainment hits the printed page, and it's totally radical!... if only the authors' ambitions weren't still lost in cyberspace.
Monday, June 20 2011
The Great Broadcast Hack: How a Rubber-Faced Faux Max Headroom Put Fear in the Hearts of Chicagoans
C-c-c-atch the wave as a Max Headroom impersonator makes Chicago TV his personal playground.
