December 14, 2025

Movies For Grown-Ups Film Festival

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 When I found out I would have the television all to myself this weekend, and no pressing household, social, or work obligations, I knew wha...

Klaus

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A charming, sophisticated, funny, and madcap story of the origins of the Santa Claus tradition. Animated in a style that feels half hand-dra...
December 2, 2025

246 Either / Or; Neither / Nor

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"Dogs Of Lust", The The ; I discovered recently that The Smiths' Johnny Marr also was an occasional guitarist for other establ...
November 9, 2025

Frankenstein (2025)

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These two doomed brides... To make another Frankenstein movie, you have to bring something new to the story. You have to tell the audience, ...
November 1, 2025

Horror Movie Triple-Feature

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 My son turned 16 this week, and instead of trick-or-treating on Halloween, he wanted to watch scary movies with his friends. So while I too...
October 24, 2025

Deliver Me From Nowhere

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Jeremy Allen White does a terrific job embodying Springsteen - in the onstage sequences, I can literally squint and mistake him for the Boss...
October 17, 2025

245 What We Do We Do Now

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"Restless" The Cobras ; last year I scored a pile of Essential CD box sets at a tag sale: three Elvis sets that cover his entire c...
October 14, 2025

Scarface [1983]

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 Watching Scarface on VHS in college is a Gen X rite of passage, yes? I remember my libertine freshman roommates watching it and doing thei...
September 18, 2025

244 Anyway, Anyhow Any Playlist

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"Play For Today" The Cure "Idiot's Delight" from Bruce Springsteen 's "new" Tracks 2 box set "Hi...

Stop Making Sense

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A genuine, inventive, dynamic concert movie, made by one of the great American bands, at the height of their powers. With all the noise/dist...