If you are on the look out for an intelligent, serious and impressively well-made drama that will stimulate and move you (and of course you are, or you wouldn’t be…
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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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Buddy Hackett talking about working in Vegas, quoted by Ebert: "I was offered twice the dough to move to a certain hotel," he told me, "but nothing doing. Comics who…
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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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