He was a genuinely provocative thinker and an immaculate writer. His fiction and his critical work are of equal interest. If you don't know his books, well, Crash, The Atrocity…
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...in which your humble servant is featured (mentioned in a comment below) is here. See if you can guess which skeevy dude I am! (Not much of a challenge, I know.)…
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Tim Roth, John Hurt, Laura Del Sol, The Hit, Stephen Frears, 1984The new Criterion version of this terrific, terse gangster picture is, as Jeffrey Wells has already pointed out, a…
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The fact that Ashton "Toolbox" Kutcher is now the King of Twitter, or whatever the fuck of Twitter he is, ought to tell you something about Twitter. UPDATE: In today's (April…
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I have to say I was a little shocked at just what weak tea this supposedly "gripping" thriller turned out to be. For all its weaknesses, director Kevin MacDonald's prior…
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Just thought I'd add my own nod to the well-deserved kudos for Sacha Gervasi's doc on the hardscrabble life of the Canadian metal band Anvil; it really is the feel-good…
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