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Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel Dir: Brigitte Berman Rating: 2.5/5.0 Kinosmith 124 Minutes Any film that opens with a soliloquy from Gene Simmons has an uphill journey ahead of it. As it is,
Read More »The Arcade Fire: The Suburbs
The Arcade Fire The Suburbs Rating: 4.0/5.0 Label: Merge It’s not stretching the truth to call the Arcade Fire an “important” band. If there is any group to reach for U2′s mantle of World’s
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Nite Jewel: Am I Real?
Nite Jewel Am I Real? Rating: 2.5/5.0 Label: Self-released Nite Jewel’s Ramona Gonzalez must know the EP is a great format for delivering unique ideas to an audience that might otherwise pass on music
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Revisit: Of Montreal: Cherry Peel
Revisit: Of Montreal Cherry Peel 1997 Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. Save for Jeff Mangum’s magnum opus, and with all due respect to Robert
Read More »Enemies of the People
Enemies of the People Dir: Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin Rating: 3.5/5.0 International Film Circuit 94 Minutes Cambodia’s Killing Fields have been immortalized in other films with bigger budgets, but no one has really
Read More »Oeuvre: Almodóvar: All About My Mother
Oeuvre is an in-depth examination of the entire body of work of an important director. With All About My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar entered his Old Master phase, catapulting himself definitively onto the world stage
Read More »Get Low
Get Low Dir: Aaron Schneider Rating: 2.5/5.0 Sony Pictures Classics 100 Minutes Late in Get Low, the hermit Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) takes a lover from long ago, Maddie (Sissy Spacek), on a tour
Read More »NEU!: NEU! Vinyl Boxed Set
NEU! NEU! Vinyl Boxed Set Rating: 5.0/5.0 Label: Grönland Forget what you may have learned about Kraftwerk’s ownership of Germany’s Autobahnen; the figurative deeds to those roads, which are perhaps the final refuges for
Read More »Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse: Dark Night of the Soul
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Capitol Records Dark Night of the Soul’s mainstream existence is nothing short of a miracle. Originally slated to grace the public in
Read More »Letters to Emma Bowlcut: by Bill Callahan
Letters to Emma Bowlcut by Bill Callahan Rating: 3.0/5.0 Publisher: Drag City Letters to Emma Bowlcut is one of the few works of musician-penned fiction that is not appallingly abysmal or vainly self-indulgent. There’s
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