Evan Puschak's Blog

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In a new video, I explore how David Lynch manipulates us in MULHOLLAND DRIVE by using expectation as a tool.

In a new video, I show you how to dissect and understand any painting by PICASSO from 5 angles.

In a new video, I break down my favorite STEELY DAN song and show you how it was made.

In a new video, I trace the history of the serial from Charles Dickens to STAR WARS and beyond.

In a new video, I discuss Lars Von Trier’s meditation on depression and the end of the world, MELANCHOLIA.

GOOD MORNING! I answered your Twitter questions in a very long Q&A, so grab a coffee and enjoy.

There comes a time in every young comic-fan’s life when a choice is made between Marvel and DC. We choose for financial reasons or simply because it’s too hard to keep track of two different universes. When I started reading comics, the two big companies were beginning to go crazy with event series and crossovers, so that you had to buy 5-10 monthly titles just to keep track of what was going on, plus the event comic itself and its spinoffs (Identity Crisis, Countdown to Final Crisis, 52, Inf...

I wish I still had my old college notebooks. This is one of the first scenes I ever tried to break down in a diagrammatic way. I took some of the lessons I learned here and applied them to my own college shorts (to varying results). Hitchcock is a technical master. By Vertigo (1958), choices like this must have been second nature to him, but that doesn’t make them any less extraordinary. Not a single shot or setup isn’t deeply considered. That makes watching and mapping out his films a very r...

In a new video, I explore how Christopher Nolan hides meaning & subtext in plain sight in THE PRESTIGE.