Edmund Wilson once remarked, apropos his soon-to-be-sundered friendship with Vladimir Nabokov, that he felt for the great author "warm affection sometimes chilled by exasperation." That phrase springs to mind sometimes…
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It's difficult to really formulate, in one's memory, just how that quality we now know as "buzz" was generated in the days before this mess we're all in now, but…
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Tell you what people: I thought is was PRETTY FECKIN' AWESOME, and shots such as the one above are only part of the reason why. More reasons are discussed in…
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So for some reason or other the "film criticism, que-est-ce-que c'est" question is heating up again, in venues far and wide. First it's the topic of discussion between the ever-insouciant…
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Princess Mononoke, Hayao Miyazaki, 1997 Snow White and the Huntsman, Rupert Sanders, 2012 Haven't done one of these in a while. And there are many who would argue that this…
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