Let us deride the smugness of “The Times”: GUFFAW! So much for the gagged reviewers, It will pay them when the worms are wriggling in their vitals; These are…
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I'm having a bit of trouble wrapping my head around what people see in Thor, as it is in fact pretty terrible. I grapple with this conundrum in my review…
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My friend Gary Lucas has posted an archival tape of an abortive recording session featuring the future Vin Diesel and the beats of the late latter-day cult figure (and all-the-time…
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I was privileged to be asked by Spin.com to cover the Steve Reich 75th Birthday Concert at Carnegie Hall on Saturday night. It was splendid, really. (That's the group So…
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No, actually, it is The Beaver, a decidedly vexed issue of a film that's not a home run but hardly a disaster either. How about you-know-who? For what it's worth,…
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Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau, 1921 Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927 The Thing From Another World, Christian Nyby, 1951 Team America: World Police, Trey Parker, 2004
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