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David O. Russell’s American Hustle is an incredibly likable film that moves so quickly one seldom notices the lapses. By lapses I mean the fact Russell’s film is so loosely based on historical record it actually borders on absurd. How … Read More … Read More

“In my country you’re seeing a horror show. You’re seeing a retrenchment in terms of family income, you’re seeing the abandonment of basic services, such as public education, functional public education. You’re seeing the underclass hunted through an alleged war … Read More

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At some point during the opening third of Bob Dylan’s autobiography, Chronicles, he describes Greenwich Village during the winter of 1961 as follows: “T.S. Eliot wrote a poem once where there were people walking to a fro, and everybody taking … Read More … Read More

“How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it’s good to go home, but you never really get all the … Read More

There are two primary rules when it comes to making a suspense thriller centered around a suitcase full of money: 1) include a handful of twists that the audience won’t see coming, and 2) for Christ’s sake, please maintain a … Read More … Read More

Meghan and I ate dinner at my apartment on that evening – bowtie pasta with Italian bread, beer and coolers on the side. I had moved back into the same one bedroom I’d been living in the previous offseason, accommodations … Read More

This is what New York City’s Penn Station looked like at 3 o’clock this morning. Travel late, if you must travel at all.

Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna would rather not be known for many of the primary reasons we all know her. Those reasons – almost all of which have been played up, then played out, by the media – include: originally coining … Read More … Read More

When it comes to Vietnam there are so many different angles to consider – the jungles, the tracers, the ever-present war at home, Nixon and Ellsberg, the hippies and Kent State, and on and on and on and on. Perhaps … Read More