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Jon Langford & Skull Orchard: Old Devils
Jon Langford & Skull Orchard Old Devils Rating: 2.0/5.0 Label: Bloodshot Records Jon Langford has quite the musician’s resume. He’s been with British punk band Mekons since their inception in the 1970s, he spent
Read More »Machete
Machete Dir: Ethan Maniquis and Robert Rodriguez Rating: 4.0/5.0 20th Century Fox 105 Minutes Is there something wrong when a Robert Rodriguez film about an ex-federale hacking his way through scores of rednecks and
Read More »Oeuvre: Polanski: The Short Films
Oeuvre is an in-depth examination of the entire body of work of an important director. Roman Polanski learned filmmaking at Lodz, Poland’s National Film School, an academy that trained Polanski’s future Knife in the
Read More »Centurion
Centurion Dir: Neil Marshall Rating: 3.0/5.0 Magnet Releasing 97 Minutes There’s a reason historical epics are boring. It’s the same basic reason that comedies like Evan Almighty are mighty unfunny: they’re offensively expensive, and
Read More »Smith Westerns: Smith Westerns
Smith Westerns Smith Westerns Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Fat Possum The resurgence of the lo-fi movement in recent years has been peculiar for many reasons but consistency of approach has never been a problem for
Read More »Goldmund: Famous Places
Goldmund Famous Places Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Western Vinyl The third release of the one-person music project Goldmund (also the purveyor of mellow electronic in Helios and the individual Keith Kenniff), Famous Places is built
Read More »Last Train Home
Last Train Home Dir: Lixin Fan Rating: 4.0/5.0 Zeitgeist Films 87 Minutes Last Train Home uses as a framing device the yearly journey that China’s migrant workers undertake from the factories and farms that
Read More »Film Dunce: The Exorcist
Film Dunce is a weekly series in which one of our writers finally succumbs to the lure of a movie that has long been a big part of our culture that they have never
Read More »The Cool Mint Café: San Marcos, TX
415 Burleson Street San Marcos, Texas 512.396.2665 www.coolmintcafe.com I recently purchased a house in my beloved Austin. Ah yes, I now know the joys of home ownership and can phase myself out as complete!
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