Steve Bowbrick writes a materialist history of Hollywood told through the top-grossing movie from every year since 1913.
Now in GROSS: Frank Capra somehow meets Bertolt Brecht: Rocky, simultaneously sweet and lofty and terribly dumb. A winnowing of the San Francisco elite: The Towering Inferno, judgement on the 135th floor. The mystery of faith: The Exorcist and Catholic power, a comparison of The Godfather and 1980 British gangster flick The Long Good Friday; Zach Cregger's Weapons: an embarrassment of genres; 'Entertainment for Men', an unhappy consideration of Diamonds are Forever.
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You'll probably also want some GROSS merch, t-shirts and mugs on obscure Hollywood themes, like Abel Gance's 1927 Napoléon, a very obscure frame from one of Hitchcock's last British movies and an original coffee mug from the Freedonian Consulate in Los Angeles or the original GROSS.LY t-shirt:
GROSS is a Bowbrick production.
There's also Bowblog, a first-generation blog from the 1990s and Radlett Wire, a sarcastic account of the politics of a small town in Hertfordshire.
