At a symposium on films and film criticism held last fall in Brookline, Massachusetts, the great critic and essayist Phillip Lopate, in the middle of an eloquent and inarguably correct…
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See here. As a regular reader of LGM, I was present at the birth of this particular meme. It was strangely satisfying, I must say...
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I'm happy to announce that I've joined the terrific crew of writers over at The Auteurs' Notebook—not that I'm abandoning my post here, mind you. My first piece for the…
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The effects maestro was a spectacular craftsman as well as a deft self-promoter—the acceptable face of gore effects, some might say. Genre fans like myself admired him because (among other…
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Oh my. I see that the kids over at The House Next Door have gone and begun posting the epic podcast featuring myself, the delightful and trenchant Karina Longworth (Spoutblog),…
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