Even Hammy Guy Pearce Can’t Save ‘Lockout’ From All That Posing
Although I am the unofficial Official Least Picky Eater, nobody’s perfect. There are things I could do without, some not even edible: sweet pickles,…
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Torture, Tipping and Context in ‘Reservoir Dogs’
Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs opens with a now expected conversation piece — suited-up gangsters sit inside Johnnie’s Coffee Shop, yapping about thematic penises in “Like a…
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Va Va Vroom: Gender politics in ‘Death Proof’
Last week, IndieWire’s Matt Singer wrote a pretty swell piece on Death Proof, specifically that it doesn’t deserve its label as Quentin Tarantino’s “worst film”: At…
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The Golden Globes are sloppy, drunk, better than the Oscars
Shame on Ben Affleck! Good for Ben Affleck! Nope. I’m not gonna do it. I will not complain about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association…
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