"Let's take a subject of great simplicity, some phase of life in this great country and make it screamingly funny to an amazed and happily unsettled world." Orson Welles wrote…
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A particularly Murnau-esque image from Scorsese's film. A lot of people don’t like Shutter Island. I get that. It’s excessive, lurid, and even those who’d argue the excess is part…
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Here are last week’s highlights from my output at RNZ – on the web and on the air. Five reasons to watch Watchmen 2019’s wonder year for television ended with…
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It has been a long time between drinks here at Funerals & Snakes but that doesn't mean that I have been idle. I continue to write and broadcast for RNZ…
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Sofia Boutella and company, Climax, directed by Gaspar Noe I have never found ranked lists of anything entirely credible, because after all what could be the really credible meteric by…
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People in the U.S. are really into hating jazz. Remember when a bunch of us got really cranky about that Buzzfeed “What’s the deal with jazz?” thing? (Yeah, no, I’m…
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