The exceptionally untimely death of Alex Chilton, one of the most dynamic talents of American popular music, period, got me thinking and listening hard. While I'm having trouble digging up…
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...to my pal Stephanie Zacherek, who's just been announced as the lead critic for Movieline, the bold web resuscitation of the print organ. While we've had our substantive differences of…
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Great news that I ought to have blogged about earlier: the visionary theater manager Nelson Page and his sound and vision ace Pete Apruzzese are, after a brief hiatus, back…
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In commemoration of the opening today of a remake of Clash of the Titans, I contribute a modest history of giant f**king scorpions in cinema to The Auteurs' Notebook, for…
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Above, from Ossos (1997)I suppose before going into Costa's sin I ought to confess my own, which is that I walked out of the first Cannes press screening of Colossal…
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You can learn a lot from reading any given comments thread over at Dave Kehr's website. Granted, the place is sometimes a nesting space for overly-vigorous haters of the Coen…
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