Various and sundry have asked for my reaction to a flailingly querulous I-hate-to-call-it-an-essay at a website called The New Inquiry. Said, no-I-won't-call-it-an-essay because it's more a...prose thing, yes, said prose-thing,…
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I have no problem admitting I'm a Phineas Newborn dilettante. Even Stanley Booth, the author of the thorough, admiring, and extremely painful appreciation of Newborn that was my first exposure…
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Here comes Tom Hardy to kick the crap out of you. No, really. Or not really. So hard to know. I quite liked Warrior AND Burke and Hare, both of…
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Ron Jeremy and I, some of you may be delighted to learn, go back a long way. Although maybe that's not the right way to put it, because that implies…
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Hiroyuki Nagato and Jitsuko Yoshimura in Buta to gunkan (Pigs and Battleships), Shohei Imamura, 1961
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I'm decidedly mixed on Drive, for reasons I articulate in my upcoming review for MSN Movies, and as such I'm a little more impatient than I'd normally be with the…
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