The Last Reel With Allan Arkush: Roll Camera… Action!
Two Hollywood commandments must always be obeyed: “Roll Camera… Action!” which, by coincidence, is the title of this Last Reel. A bit…

Two Hollywood commandments must always be obeyed: “Roll Camera… Action!” which, by coincidence, is the title of this Last Reel. A bit…

Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series preps a scrumptious cinematic meal! Get ready for Dinner and…

Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series hits the open road! In 1968, Allan was 20 years…

Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series returns! 60 years before “blockbuster” movie moguls started showing movies…

Nighttime dramas are the backbone of series TV. Whether they are streamed, binged, cabled or in a box set, they are our…

TFH Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series gets literate this week! How I Became A Teenage Beatnik covers the…

The rapid growth of television came out of the TV Terroir of 1950s America. Almost all TV programming has its roots in…

Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series rolls on with a look at the 1950s Western TV…

Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series returns with a vengeance, this time to take stock of…

Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series is back with a look at two trailblazing filmmakers: Lois…

Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series returns with Side B of his extended look at Questlove.

Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series continues with its first installment of a TWO-PARTER about the…
This week’s The Last Reel examines the many forms cinematic femme fatales can take, and why we still love them even though…

This week’s The Last Reel looks back at the otherworldly power of 60s rock and roll bands and how the media—films, videos,…

“What is this Last Reel?” Every new show needs an Origin Story. This one starts in March of 1974, when Fearless Leader Joe…

If you could travel back in time and see me during the summer of ’68, you would not see any noticeable differences…

OK, I’ll just say it, this was one of the best summers of my life. What’s happened so far? I had graduated…

PERSPECTIVE. Writing and telling these stories has given me perspective and an appreciation of why my story unfolded the way it did.…

Chapter 7, Part 2 of Music & Stories, “Reckless Youth” Today we’ll delve more deeply into the three musketeers of my reckless…

Chapter 7, Part 1 of Music & Stories, “Reckless Youth” In writing all these chapters beginning with Chapter 6, I was surprised…

Chapter 6 of “Music & Stories” is “My Least Favorite Year.” From Spring of 1965 to Spring 1966, I was in free…

Welcome to “Going Electric,” Music & Stories Chapter 5, Part 2. This story is one of the main reasons that I wanted…

“Something is happening here and you don’t know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?” The first half of a two-parter: Chapter…

I was in the Class of 1966 at Fort Lee High School. Our team’s nickname was The Bridgemen because of our proximity…

I couldn’t let the passing of Marty Balin go by without playing all my Jefferson Airplane LPs. They were one of the…

The title of the series for this chapter should be “Movies & Stories” because I share a lot of the movies that…