Johnny Marr, the most brilliant guitarist of the 1980s, continues to expand his repertoire and move forward. Marr has had the sort of career one...
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John Hankey is a controversial filmmaker, based in Los Angeles, who has several films to his credit exploring topics ranging from the critical...
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It’s a strange thing, this affiliation we feel for those things which first move us. As is the case for so many of us of a certain age, Thriller...
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My Dinner with Andre receives the Criterion treatment today, having just been released on DVD. Directed by Louis Malle (Au Revoir Les Enfants,...
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New Order officially broke up yet again last year, and as usual the problem centered around bickering alphas Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook. Hooky is...
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In 1985, author Neil Postman, then-chairman of the Department of Communication Art at NYU, wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death. It has gone on to become...
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For whatever reason, just as there was a sudden burst of body-switching movies in the 80s (Like Father, Like Son, 18 Again, and Vice Versa, among...
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In the wake of the film version of Land of the Lost, it seems that most of the television shows of the 1970s have been plumbed for Hollywood remakes...
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Confusing and misheard lyrics have always been a part of rock music. Whole books have been written about the subject. And even when the answer is...
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If it’s Monday, then General Motors must be out of business. A small exaggeration, perhaps; they are merely bankrupt. And unlike people,...
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