Filmmaker extraordinaire Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Walker) and CU-Boulder International Film Series curator Pablo Kjølseth have a weekly podcast where they talk movies while sipping beer. Since I specialize in both, they were kind enough to invite … Continue reading Cox & Kjølseth
As one seller says: There are collectors, and then there are the people who don’t know what the hell the collectors are doing. That’s putting it lightly. At least as The Booksellers—the new documentary from Greenwich Entertainment streaming via virtual theaters—is … Continue reading THE BOOKSELLERS
“This certainly isn’t the game plan we had in mind earlier this year,” Pola Changnon, TCM General Manager, told a conference call full of reporters on April 14. “We’re glad we’re able to execute something this robust in such a … Continue reading “Changes breed creativity.”
We all have our things. Chip Gutchel (Tyler Cornack) likes things up his butt. It’s a recent development, one brought on by a routine prostate exam. Before that, Gutchel’s life lacked spice: Bland home, a wife who might be cheating … Continue reading BUTT BOY
I think he could have been a good person once,” a character muses. “He had a mother,” another admits. Good, bad, or ugly, we all had mothers once. And, as Ben Wade says in 3:10 to Yuma, “Even bad men love … Continue reading BACURAU
For Robbie Robertson, it all begins with a guitar. A ’56 Fender Stratocaster, the one he wrote his first two commercial songs with: “Hey Boba Lou” and “Someone Like You.” Those were for Ronnie Hawkins, an early rock ‘n’ roll … Continue reading ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND
Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) is seventeen and pregnant. She lives in a small, blue-collar Pennsylvania town without much of a support system. Her familial relationship appears strained, as does her relationship with the father of her unborn child. He’s a jerk … Continue reading NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
It’s the third Thursday in March, and under normal circumstances, we’d be steeped in March Madness right now. You’re probably reading this at home. And not because you took the day off to watch a weekend of half-court heaves, buzzer … Continue reading Two from Asif Kapadia: SENNA and DIEGO MARADONA
The timing couldn’t be better. The Alamo Drafthouse’s series, Hot Takes & Remakes, is a bizarre and beautiful collection of 30ish movies—some revered, some despised, all worth a second look. And if you haven’t given Martin Scorsese’s 2006 Boston cops … Continue reading THE DEPARTED
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