Of the very slim cinematic pickings this week, new-release wise, the two I review for MSN Movies are Joyful Noise (above), and Contraband.
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Anatoli Solonitsyn, Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979 Believe it or not, this image was evoked for me by a passage in this account, which passage you ought to be able to…
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In my first piece for The A/V Club, a "For Our Consideration" late-game defense of Steve McQueen's film about addiction. Comments over there are already getting, um, exciting, so add…
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"I think for anyone truly interested in girls a single sentence of Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex or Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita or Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse will give you more insight than Caitlin…
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When I was working at Video Review magazine in the mid-1980s, I and most of the other staffers had multiple occasions to look at videos made by our readers. A…
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Roadie, about a washed-up one, for the Blue Oyster Cult yet, and starring Ron Eldard and Bobby Cannavale, sure could have used some, as I don't quite come out and…
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