You gotta hand it to the French—even when they're being crassly commercial they've got taste. Colombiana, an image from which is above, not only knows from Danger: Diabolik, obviously, but…
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I've only just now taken a look at Maud Newton's August 19 New York Times Magazine "Riff" (and really, I'm beginning to get the idea that his newish section is…
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"He used to beat himself up 'til he was sick and confused/and tired and frothin' and crazy and bruised/'Til he'd be too worn out to keep being himself/now he can…
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Sorry, couldn't help it. But as I say of Miranda July's The Future in my review for MSN Movies, the artist's problem isn't so much twee as it is dink.…
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A version of pastoral in Jack Conway's 1930 all-talking version of The Unholy Three. In the foreground, Lila Lee and Lon Chaney; in the background, Ivan Linow and, in the…
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"No, But I Read The Book" Lawrence Block Over a good many years, my friend Donald E. Westlake wrote two dozen books about a career criminal named Parker. Because his…
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