For my sins—literally—I am cited, and quoted, in a very well-turned Vanity Fair online piece by Jim Windolf about the flame wars on novelist Keith Gessen and still-odious dribbler Emily Gould.…
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So I was looking at Paramount's new disc of John Ford's 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Volume 8 of the company's very welcome Centennial Collection, and enjoying the…
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"Is Wolverine the comic book equivalent of Hal Ashby and Waldo Salt’s Coming Home with mutant powers? No." —David Poland
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"There is a saying among the fragments of the Greek poet Archilochus which says, "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' Scholars have differed about…
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In commemoration of tonight's Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience, in which your humble servant plays the role of an exceedingly reprehensible character known (to himself,…
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Some mid-'60s mooks don't care how prophetic it is, they don't wanna have any part of David Holzman's Diary. The groundbreaking 1967 Jim McBride film is the subject of today's…
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