Chloe Grace Moretz is Carrie in the new remake from Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry), Benedict Cumberbatch is Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate and we do a quick run-down…
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Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen has a book out, a collection of essays and one diary entitled Eminent Hipsters. It's real good. The topics of the essays range from the…
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"Charlie Countryman," starring Shia LaBeouf, for whom I have no sympathy, and Evan Rachel Wood, for whom I have some sympathy, is a capital-B Bad Movie which I review for…
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"He strums the wire with his fingers." From The Counselor, Ridley Scott, 2013 Ridley Scott's The Counselor, from an original script by Cormac McCarthy, inspired quite a bit of critical…
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Lee Daniels' The Butler is a Black history lesson set in the White House, novelist Cormac McCarthy teams up with Ridley Scott to make a conundrum called The Counselor and…
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Is Gravity the first really new film of the 21st Century? I hazard it may be. It is certainly the first to harness the bleeding edge of the current…
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