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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Sister Sledge: We Are Family

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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Cowboy Junkies: ‘Cause Cheap Is How I Feel

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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Earth, Wind & Fire: All ‘n All

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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Henry “Buzz” Glass: Square Dance Variations Volume I

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    Concert Review: Tool

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    Discography: MF Doom: Special Herbs

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    Holy Hell! Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Fixed:: Context Turns 20

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    Interview: Nonagon

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    Chet Baker: (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You/Chet Baker in New York/Chet/Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe-review

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    Buzzcocks: Late for the Train – Live & in Session 1989-2016

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    Mexican Institute of Sound: Distrito Federal

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    A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Invisible Cities

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    A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Invisible Cities

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    Black Sabbath: Vol. 4 (Super Deluxe Edition)

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    Melvins: Working with God

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    Julien Baker: Little Oblivions

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    Resequence: Childish Gambino: 3.15.20

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    Resequence: Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

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    Resequence: Prince: 1999

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    Rediscover: Todd Rundgren: A Wizard, A True Star

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    The Father

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    Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry

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    Night of the Kings

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    Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry

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    The Swordsman

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    Nomadland

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    Holy Hell! The Wedding Planner Turns 20

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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: A History of Violence

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Home Tag Archives: coen brothers

Tag Archives: coen brothers

Holy Hell! O Brother, Where Art Thou? Turns 20

By Ryne Clos
September 16, 2020
in :  Features, Film, Holy Hell

A delightful Coens romp through Greek mythology, the Depression-era South and the human psyche.

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

By Jesse Cataldo
November 18, 2018
in :  Film, Film Reviews, Recommended

These two sardonic moralists succeed in inhabiting each extreme in equal proportion, blending and reshaping familiar narratives as only they can.

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Holy Hell! The Big Lebowski Turns 20

By Josh Goller
April 4, 2018
in :  Features, Film, Holy Hell

Viewed 20 years later, The Big Lebowski’s wry satirization of capitalism becomes more pronounced.

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The Coen Brothers: by Ian Nathan

By Josh Goller
January 18, 2018
in :  Books, Reviews

The Coen Brothers doesn’t purport to get inside the heads of these modern masters, but it does give readers a fly-on-the-wall peek.

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Revisit: Blood Simple

By David Harris
March 14, 2017
in :  Features, Film, Revisit-Rediscover

Like all the greatest film noir, time can’t erode this fucker.

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Holy Hell! Fargo Turns 20

By Forrest Cardamenis
March 2, 2016
in :  Features, Film, Holy Hell

Fargo shows the Coen Brothers working in a progressive, political fashion without sacrificing any other endearing traits.

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Hail, Caesar!

By Forrest Cardamenis
February 4, 2016
in :  Film, Film Reviews, Recommended

This is a movie about movies.

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Five Years Later: The Best Films of 2010!!

By Spectrum Culture Staff
January 4, 2016
in :  Five Years Later, Lists

Five years is an eternity in the life of a film. When coming up with this feature, the question the Spectrum Culture staff pondered was this: “How well do these movies play NOW!” Not five years ago, but how have they aged in our memories. While some acclaimed films of 2010 remain strong on our list, some critically-lauded ones didn’t …

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Criminally Underrated: The Hudsucker Proxy

By Stacia Kissick Jones
June 18, 2014
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

Slammed on release for being derivative and expensive, contemptuous and without substance, The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) was the Coen Brothers’ first true critical failure. Though set in the late 1950s, Hudsucker Proxy is a pastiche of classic Hollywood directors from the 1930s and 1940s such as Frank Capra, Howard Hawks and Preston Sturges. The hero of our story, one Norville …

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Inside Llewyn Davis

By David Harris
December 16, 2013
in :  Film, Film Reviews

[xrr rating=3.75/5]Ah, hipsters, you gotta love them. In a society dictated by Facebook and Pitchfork, hipsters are enjoying a greater power share, one that rivals the early ‘60s when a very different kind of hipster cat changed the face of popular music. That is why Inside Llewyn Davis, the new film from the Coen Brothers, is an allegory about a …

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