Pages tagged “issue 36”

Dusted Off: Pet Sematary

By the time Pet Sematary was published...  read more

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Various Artists: Wattstax (35th Anniversary Deluxe Package)

Part of the problem with Wattstax is that it came after Stax had already lost many of its signature talents...  read more

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Romance and Cigarettes

It can be tough to see the forest for the trees in John Turturro’s Romance and Cigarettes...  read more

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Into The Wild

Sean Penn may have wanted to school his viewers on the toxicity of capitalist society, but his script (which relies far too heavily on voiceovers) feels more didactic than edifying...  read more

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For The Bible Tells Me So

What might initially seem a bleeding-heart attack on Christianity turns out to be a levelheaded criticism of unswerving Biblical literalism...  read more

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Various Artists: The Heavy Metal Box

With delightfully cheeky packaging and four brimming discs...  read more

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Bettye Lavette: Late Bloomer Gets Her Mojo On

After Atlantic Records shelved what singer Bettye LaVette had hoped would be her breakthrough album in 1972—an album recorded in soul-music hotbed Muscle Shoals, Ala.—the Detroit native spent more than three decades exiled on the farthest fringes of the music biz, singing for her supper in dives and lounges...  read more

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Antonioni & Bergman

When two of the greatest filmmakers in history improbably died within 24 hours of each other on July 30, 2007, a sad, almost painful, realization dawned on cinephiles worldwide: There will be no more films from Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman...  read more

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Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace

Whether you spend your days tweaking the cup size...  read more

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Margaret Cezair-Thompson

The central character of The Pirate’s Daughter is not the young...  read more

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