Pages tagged “issue 36”

Dusted Off: Pet Sematary

By William Gay on 4:03 PM on November 2, 2007

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

Found in: Books, Reviews

Various Artists: Wattstax (35th Anniversary Deluxe Package)

By Craig Seymour on 2:28 PM on November 2, 2007

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

Found in: Music, Reviews

Romance and Cigarettes

By Jesse Jarnow on 2:13 PM on November 2, 2007

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

Found in: Movies, Reviews

Into The Wild

By Amanda Petrusich on 2:00 PM on November 2, 2007

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

By Kate Kiefer on 12:21 PM on November 2, 2007

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

By Jeff Leven on 12:09 PM on November 2, 2007

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

Found in: Music, Reviews

Bettye Lavette: Late Bloomer Gets Her Mojo On

By Bud Scoppa on 3:54 PM on October 31, 2007

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

Found in: Music, Features

Antonioni & Bergman

By Robert Davis on 11:10 AM on October 31, 2007

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

Found in: Movies, Features