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For Our Consideration Star Wars goes disco and other crassly commercial hits of the “Medley Age”

An era of novelty music strip-mined pop culture for fleeting chart hits, and it was truly terrible.

April 9, 2013 | 12:00am -
AVQ&A What did Roger Ebert mean to you?

The world’s most famous film critic was so much more than that.

April 5, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Simon Killer

Director Antonio Campos follows up Afterschool with another disturbing portrait of alienation and violence.

April 4, 2013 | 12:06am -
Movie Review Andre Gregory: Before And After Dinner

The André of My Dinner With André continues the conversation.

April 4, 2013 | 12:04am -
A Very Special Episode Hogan’s Heroes’ unceremonious finale comes from the era before TV “endgames”

In the pre-serialization age, the practicalities of filling a timeslot took precedence over authorial intent.

April 4, 2013 | 12:00am -
Gateways To Geekery Where to start with Elvis Presley’s uneven yet charismatic film career

Presley had such a larger-than-life quality that he’s often fascinating apart from what’s going on around him onscreen.

April 4, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Smash “The Parents”

Bernadette Peters delivers a socko song in an otherwise stinko Smash.

April 3, 2013 | 12:40am -
TV Roundtable It’s okay to laugh at It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s musical trainwreck

Enter the Dayman.

April 3, 2013 | 12:00am -
HomeVideo Review Dirk Gently

A BBC Four series captures the spirit of Douglas Adams’ irreverent comic mystery novel.

April 3, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Justified “Ghosts”

Justified ends its fantastic fourth season with bold moves and tragic blunders.

April 2, 2013 | 10:00pm -
Inventory It’s time to move on, it’s time to get going: 17 solo albums (and one single) that effectively doomed bands

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April 1, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas is a bleary indictment of society’s ills

Terry Gilliam’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s famous book accomplishes a difficult task.

April 1, 2013 | 12:00am -
For Our Consideration The accent grave: Why don’t Americans play Americans on TV anymore?

Actors doing accents discounts the diversity of the real world and diminishes the reality of the character.

March 28, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Movie Review Blancanieves

Pablo Berger’s silent, black-and-white take on Snow White couldn’t be further from The Artist.

March 28, 2013 | 12:06am -
Movie Review Room 237

Rodney Ascher’s superb essay-doc compares elaborate theories about the meaning of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

March 28, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Smash “The Bells & Whistles”

Smash finds focus, perhaps in time to salvage something out of this sputtering season.

March 27, 2013 | 2:04am -
HomeVideo Review Monsieur Verdoux

Charles Chaplin reinvented himself with this post-WWII serial-killer comedy.

March 27, 2013 | 12:01am -
TV Roundtable The 7th Heaven musical is one of the worst episodes of TV ever made

Watch as our panel attempts to survive its stultifying stupidity with sanity intact!

March 27, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Justified “Peace Of Mind”

Unfinished business leads to some anxious moments on another excellent Justified.

March 26, 2013 | 10:00pm -
Comics Panel New comics releases include a trio of great graphic novels and the rebirth of Constantine

Also reviewed: Two Hellboy spinoffs, a Will Eisner short-story collection, and an unnecessary Wolverine book.

March 26, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Watch This Hearts Of Darkness goes downriver with the creators of Apocalypse Now

How a making-of documentary adapts Joseph Conrad more effectively than the movie itself.

March 25, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Gimme The Loot

In an exhilarating indie, writer-director Adam Leon follows two Bronx graffiti artists looking to “Bomb The Apple.”

March 21, 2013 | 12:04am -
Movie Review Hunky Dory

In 1976, a drama teacher (Minnie Driver) attempts to get a musical version of The Tempest off the ground.

March 21, 2013 | 12:03am -
TV Roundtable After Ally McBeal captured the zeitgeist, Robert Downey Jr. found the show’s heart

“That’s what Christmas is all about, Ally McBeal.”

March 20, 2013 | 12:00pm -
TV Club : Smash “Musical Chairs”

Remember everything Smash was so sure about last week? This week it all changes. (Again.)

March 20, 2013 | 1:00am -
HomeVideo Review Timerider

Fred Ward as a time-traveling dirt-bike rider? B-movie heaven.

March 20, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Justified “Decoy”

You might not see a major motion picture this year more tense and well-plotted than this week’s Justified.

March 19, 2013 | 10:00pm -
AVQ&A Favorite festival experiences

After SXSW, we talk about our favorite festival experiences.

March 19, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This The Day Of The Jackal meticulously tracks an assassination attempt on Charles de Gaulle

Long, detail-oriented, largely dialogue-free scenes place this 1973 international terrorist procedural in its own league.

March 18, 2013 | 12:01am -
TV Club : Other Shows The World According To Dick Cheney

The director of The War Room and The Perfect Candidate talks to one of the most controversial VPs in US history.

March 15, 2013 | 4:00pm -

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