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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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    Concert Review: The Mountain Goats

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    Discography: MF Doom: Special Herbs

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    Discography: MF DOOM: Operation: Doomsday

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    Discography: MF DOOM: Bl_ck B_st_rds

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    Holy Hell! Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP Turns 20

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    Interview: Nonagon

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    Interview: Joseph D’Agostino of Empty Country

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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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    What Becomes a Legend Most: by Philip Gefter

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    The Hearing Trumpet: by Leonora Carrington

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    Telephone: by Percival Everett

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Home Tag Archives: tony scott

Tag Archives: tony scott

Year by Year: Worst Summer Movies (1985-1994)

By Spectrum Culture Staff
May 16, 2013
in :  Lists, Year by Year

Summer at the box office is the season of promise, a time when loud trailers proudly herald the latest special effects bonanza. This year is no different than the others: the Enterprise will fly again, Brad Pitt will fight zombies, the Wolfpack is back and that’s not even mentioning the slew of superhero movies the studios are asking us to …

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Criminally Underrated: Man on Fire

By Kyle Fowle
October 24, 2012
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

In this feature our writers defend films they feel have not received their due. When an artist passes away, it’s tempting for critics and audiences to delve back into their body of work and begin revaluating, as if their passing may reveal something meaningful, or that the work is now a more relevant cultural artifact. It’s a slippery slope between …

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Re-Make/Re-Model: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) vs. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)

By Jake Cole
April 29, 2012
in :  Features, Film, Re-Make/Re-Model

Remakes have been around nearly as long as Hollywood itself, and not always for the reasons or with the results you’d think. Spectrum Culture’s new feature Re-Make/Re-Model will examine the long history of cinematic remakes, the good movies turned great, the bad ideas turned worse and the weird ones turned boring. Made during the two lowest points of American faith …

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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

By Rafael Gaitan
June 9, 2009
in :  Film, Film Reviews

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Dir: Tony Scott Rating: 2.5 Columbia Pictures 106 Minutes The best and worst compliment you can pay Tony Scott is that his films have a style. The visual he pioneered with films such as Domino and Man on Fire, the “temperature-cam” has become a staple of all of Scott’s later day films, sometimes …

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