Two of Fred Frith's homemades, The Stone, August 30, before the evening's second set. This evening and tomorrow, Sunday, September 1, the multi-instrumentalist and composer Fred Frith will play two…
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George Clooney in Gravity. N.b.: I offer the below in the spirit of nipping what I believe to be a particularly noxious meme in the bud. I've tried to keep…
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Among her many other achievements (many of which are listed here), the great Harris was an arguably unlikely scream queen and an undeniably brilliant one. Above, in Robert Wise's The…
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Two swell ones out this weekend: Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster and Edgar Wright's The World's End, the latter featuring Simon Pegg, who's seen above as his character in the…
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I was at the after-party, or as they used to call it back then, the party, for the premiere of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown in 1997, at this nice nightspot in…
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Jane Fonda and Alan Rickman as Nancy and Ronald Reagan in Lee Daniels' The Butler. Leslie Nielsen did not return from the dead to play the white-haired fellow behind them.…
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