Michael Barrett

Howard Hughes in Hollywood, Vol. 1 Flicker Alley Hollywood producer Howard Hughes made his money the old-fashioned way. He inherited it. In his late teens, he obtained control of his late father’s Hughes Tool Company in Houston, Texas, which made a fortune by building a better drill bit.

Cat City Collection Deaf Crocodile One handy way to parody and expose the human world is to imagine a world where everyone is an animal. By what’s surely no coincidence, these two Blu-rays from Deaf Crocodile turn their attention to social and political parodies from the rich world of non-American animation, specifically Hungary and the Philippines.

Days and Nights in the Forest Criterion People who go on vacation exist in a parenthetical pocket of suspended time, in some other place from their natural environment, before going back to what we laughingly call our real lives. Except in unusual cases, what we do on vacation doesn’t seem to matter or count, even if we’ll recall it more vividly than the blur of allegedly productive weeks.