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Tag Archives: media thoughts
sports reporting, social justice and the steve dangle podcast.
In the most recent episode of the Steve Dangle Podcast (a Toronto Maple Leafs first, hockey second podcast that I listen to religiously because I have become a hockey fan over the past couple years, go figure), cohost Adam Wylde asked listeners to tweet the show … Continue reading
the brian fallon show OR the song that doesn’t end
The foregoing is a portrait of Brian Fallon. Here are some things about Brian Fallon, lead singer of The Gaslight Anthem and The Horrible Crowes, and now solo artist with the release of Painkillers back in March. He is proooooobably trash. The attitudes towards … Continue reading
man, the dope said there’s still hope.
I want to talk about Bruce Springsteen, but I’m not sure where to start. It’s so cliche – the girl from suburban New Jersey in love with The Boss, so in love she’s contemplating a Springsteen tattoo, so in love … Continue reading
mamma mia and the sexuality of grown-ass ladies.
::knocks on door, dusts off furniture, peeks around corner into dark hallway, promptly falls into large hole created by rotten floorboards:: ….. ow. Uh, hi guys? Hi. It’s been a minute. But, you know. Y’all still love me, and probably … Continue reading
quick thoughts on Hamlet (2000).
This morning I decided to check out Ethan Hawke in director Michael Almereyda’s 2000 adaptation of Hamlet. It’s a modern-day version set in New York City, where Denmark is a corporation the CEO of which has been murdered. Here are … Continue reading
Unfinished Song (2012) tore my heart out and I highly recommend the same to you.
There is no excuse for this film. It’s as high concept as any superhero movie, and that concept is so superficially awful – cheerful young choir director helps grumpy old widower find happiness through the power of song – it … Continue reading
Frances Ha(lladay, seriously, we need to counteract some of the twee, here)
So, Frances Ha. I can’t figure out why this movie exists. It’s about being twentysomething, directionless and artsy in post-recession New York, but it was directed by highly successful fortysomething director Noah Baumbach, who co-wrote it with indie darling and … Continue reading
Before Midnight
Before Midnight is the third installment in director Richard Linklater and actors Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy’s series of films following two characters, Jesse (Hawke) and Celine (Delpy), over what is now eighteen years. I saw the second installment, Before … Continue reading
42: America has race issues. were you aware?
42‘s in sort of a funny position. In telling the story of Jackie Robinson, the first black man to play Major League Baseball, it could easily be a feel-good-a-thon for white Americans. It could talk about how the good integrationists … Continue reading
Celeste and Jesse Forever.
I have one hard-and-fast rule about break-ups. It’s the only thing I tell everyone they need to do. It is not influenced by culture, relationship style, or whatever -amory one chooses to engage in, and it is this: after a … Continue reading
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