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Kindness: World, You Need a Change of Mind
Pleasant does not mean bad. Of course, it doesn’t mean good, either. More than anything, “pleasant” means innocuous, something that could be taken or left. With that context, saying World, You Need a Change
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A Bag of Hammers
These days, if there’s a shiftless young dude with shaggy hair and retro outfits in a film, it’s a pretty sure bet that he’s going to learn how to take responsibility and make something
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Oeuvre: Spike Lee: Crooklyn
Oeuvre is an in-depth examination of the entire body of work of an important director. Autobiography has always been a strong element of Spike Lee’s work. Of his first six full length films (as
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Criminally Overrated: The Talented Mr. Ripley
In this feature our writers take down films they feel are wildly overpraised. Some movies are born to mediocrity through a dearth of ideas or interest, like The Score (2001). Some have it thrust
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Film Dunce: A Streetcar Named Desire
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
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The Dandy Warhols: This Machine
It often appears that the Dandy Warhols are as much a self-sustaining musical history reference generator as they are a band. In the 18 years the band has been together, they’ve managed to name
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Donovan: The Essential Donovan
Donovan Leitch has always been a hard one to pin down. His reputation is firmly fixed in the 1960s, which we are told were a crazy and strange time, man, but even then, he
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Revisit: Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. Few people in the world are ever the greatest at anything. Throughout history, there are the great, there are
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Criminally Underrated: Carlito’s Way
In this feature our writers defend films they feel have not received their due. There’s an old saying: you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. Aside from being cynical propaganda distributed
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