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Rediscover: California Split
Rediscover: California Split Dir: Robert Altman 1974 Rediscover is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that have flown under the radar and now deserve a second look. Billed as a comedy, and consistently
Read More »44 Inch Chest
44 Inch Chest Dir: Malcolm Venville Rating: 4.0/5.0 Image Entertainment 95 Minutes 44 Inch Chest might be the first film ever made about a mopey gangster. No surprise that the film comes from the
Read More »Rediscover: Vicious Hairy Mary: Orchestra Phantasma
Rediscover: Vicious Hairy Mary Orchestra Phantasma 1999 Rediscover is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that have flown under the radar and now deserve a second look. Classical Gypsy Vaudeville Circus Metal. It’s
Read More »Charlotte Gainsbourg: IRM
Charlotte Gainsbourg IRM Rating: 3.0/5.0 Because Music Charlotte Gainsbourg has it both ways, musically speaking. Although an acclaimed actress and de facto French royalty, her credentials in the pop world are always going to
Read More »Major Stars: Return to Form
Major Stars Return to Form Rating: 2.0/5.0 Label: Drag City Though it takes Return to Form half an album to get there, there’s a moment in “Low Grade” when Major Stars singer Sandra Barrett’s
Read More »R.I.P.: J.D. Salinger (1919-2010)
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where i was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied
Read More »Concert Review: They Might Be Giants Special Flood Show
They Might Be Giants is an impressive band on a couple different levels: they have a massive discography that spans the past 23 years, they have a frequent and rigorous touring schedule and they
Read More »Four Tet: There Is Love in You
Four Tet There Is Love in You Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Domino Is anyone else blown away by the fact that Kieran Hebden has been making music for 15 years? As a guitarist in 1995,
Read More »Shapes Stars Make: These Mountains Are Safe
Shapes Stars Make These Mountains Are Safe Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Dreamt Music What shape would a star make, exactly? According to the intriguingly named trio of Michael Gooden (guitars/vocals), Jon Cook (bass/synthesizer) and Zachary
Read More »Word is Out
Word is Out Dir: Peter Adair, Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein, Lucy Massie Phenix, Veronica Selver Rating 4.0 / 5.0 Milestone Pictures 135 Minutes In the early 1980s, I was a homosexual, living
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