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In the context of this highly divisive, incorrectly color-graded Bluray, the names Larry Smith and Criterion’s Lee Kline will live in infamy…talk about burnt bridges! >

Las night I re-watched Matt Tyrnauer‘s seven-year-old Studio 54, and it still delivers a great high for those who were young or youngish and occasionally clubbing and constantly quaaluding back in the late Jimmy Carter era. It feels really soothing and heartwarming to revisit that bacchanalian atmosphere of yore, and it’s also a great Christmas…

For the 47th or 48th time, The Shining gives good eerie here and there, but it’s never been scary. Creepy or ominously unnerving is fine, but “scary” is a very precise and deeply unsettling thing…an ansty-cold feeling in your blood and bones. On top of which Jack Nicholson‘s kabuki-like performance as Jack Torrance is a…

Warped notions of what constitutes comedic are over-the-top these days. Leonardo DiCaprio‘s decision to look and sound like a stoner wreck (unshaven, bathrobe, “Viva La Revolucion!”) and behaving in a generally anxious and excitable manner is commendable as far as it goes, but it’s certainly not hah-hah funny or even heh-heh chuckly.

Behaving like the careless twat that I am, I dropped an unopened, totally sealed can of Diet Coke into my computer bag the other night. It had to stay sealed, I figured. Coke cans don’t open themselves, right? Well, this one fucking did and soon after my two-year-old 16-inch Macbook Pro — the newest one…

Season’s thanks & greetings to “HK Phooey” and “Glen Runciter Plays The Hits”…seriously. Fair question: How does being beaten and bruised by an African Silverback woke gorilla goon squad translate into the “burning of bridges” (or vice versa)? Would it be fair to characterize a victim of China’s Great Cultural Revolution in the ‘60s and…

Here‘s the 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” report that Bari Weiss yanked a couple of days ago. Sharyn Alfonsi‘s piece was essentially the same story that was reported by the N.Y. Times several weeks ago. “To run a story on this subject two months later, we need to do more,” Weiss has said. “And this is…

I was and am as appalled, horrified and heartbroken about Rob and Michele Reiner’s murder as the next guy, but I really don’t care for adoration tributes. Reiner has been quickly deified over the last week or so, but I prefer to remember people as they actually were deep down, warts and all. Just share…

If you’ve been following the recent high-school squabble between prominent rightie columnists and podcasters, you know that last Thursday Ben Shapiro delivered a speech at AmFest in which he trashed the extreme conspiracy-minded fringe nutters (Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson) and one of their apologists (Megan Kelly). Those who’ve been instinctively or habitually trashing…

“Dial M Mauled By Fascists,” posted on 4.28.12: The 1.78 or 1.85 a.r. on the Dial M For Murder Bluray was favored because of one reason only — because this a.r. conforms to the 16 x 9 aspect ratio of high-def flat panels. The people who made this call were and are nothing but FASCIST…

Broken English, the 2025 doc about Marianne Faithfull that I saw in Venice three and a half months ago, would be a perfect thing to stream on this cold and snowy Connecticut day. Is it streamable as a stand-alone rental? Apparently not. Okay, maybe it is but I’m just too fucking dumb to figure it…

Early this morning Slate ‘s Dana Stevens urged readers to consider Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme and Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You in the same light — as two peas in a pod, in fact — linked as they are by the same producer, Ronald Bronstein, who is also Mary’s husband**. But…