Once more diversifying my journalistic efforts—because, as we see more and more clearly day by day, film criticism is a mug's game—I recently interviewed Gregg Allman for the MSN Music…
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"Joe Swanberg's kind of become your straw man," My Lovely Wife commented to me this evening. "Well I wish you'd told me you felt that way before I wrote a…
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Sandra Bernhard, Jerry Lewis, and Robert DeNiro, The King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese, 1982. "I don't want to screw up the Santa Barbara Film Festival timetable, but...well, the Academy needs…
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At MSN Movies, I review the two big new releases, Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet and Ron Howard's The Dilemma. I am ambivalent, that is to say, partially-to-surprisingly-largely positive, and…
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As part of MSN TV's' run-up to the Golden Globes, I examine the mutating mystique of its 2011 Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, a face we all know.
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Above: Peter Wight and Lesley Manville, Another Year It is perhaps no accident that two films which depict the abuse of Strong Drink by certain of its characters, as well…
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