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Book Review William Friedkin: The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir

One of the 1970s’ premier directors exorcises his past with self-aware frankness.

April 15, 2013 | 12:00am -
AVQ&A Favorite festival experiences

After SXSW, we talk about our favorite festival experiences.

March 19, 2013 | 12:00am -
Book Review Tom Folsom: Hopper

A new Dennis Hopper biography goes awkwardly gonzo.

March 4, 2013 | 12:00am -
Book Review Dwayne Epstein: Lee Marvin: Point Blank

The star of Cat Ballou, Point Blank, and many more finally gets the full bio treatment, but it reads like a first draft.

February 18, 2013 | 12:02am -
AVQ&A Regrettably unattainable art

In an age of near-infinite pop-culture accessibility, we look at those rare items we still can’t acquire.

February 15, 2013 | 12:00am -
Inventory Hollywood’s trash, our treasure: 17 salvageable flops from the late-winter dumping ground

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January 28, 2013 | 12:00am -
Book Review Kevin Pollak, Alan Goldsher: How I Slept My Way To The Middle

A minor star passes on stories about the major stars he’s met and worked with.

November 19, 2012 | 12:03am -
Book Review David Foster Wallace: Both Flesh And Not: Essays

The posthumous collections from the Infinite Jest author continue, but this essay collection does helpfully background his longer fiction work.

November 12, 2012 | 12:03am -
Book Review D.T. Max: Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life Of David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace gets a solid, mostly fair first biography

September 3, 2012 | 12:00am -
Book Review Charlie Schroeder: Man Of War: My Adventures In The World Of Historical Reenactment

An NPR commentator finds the human-interest comedy and the disturbing racism in various re-enactment societies around the country.

June 25, 2012 | 12:00am -
Book Review Kate Hopkins: Sweet Tooth: The Bittersweet History Of Candy

This bloggy overview of the history of candy by the author of 99 Drams Of Whiskey is mostly empty calories.

June 18, 2012 | 12:02am -
Inventory “We stuck your girlfriend on an island”: 22 main characters casually dismissed in sequels

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May 14, 2012 | 12:00am -
Book Review Andrés Neuman: Traveler Of The Century

Sex, history, and literary criticism merge in this compelling novel from a Spanish-based writer getting his first English translation.

May 7, 2012 | 12:02am -
Book Review Joe Pantoliano: Asylum: Hollywood Tales From My Great Depression

The pugnacious actor from Memento, The Matrix, and much more supposedly wants to educate the world about mental illness, but this odd collection of anecdotes doesn’t fit the bill.

April 30, 2012 | 12:03am -
Inventory Yes, animals were harmed: 21 films and TV shows that killed or hurt animals

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April 9, 2012 | 12:00am -
Book Review Hari Kunzru: Gods Without Men

A story of parents who lose their autistic boy in the desert—possibly to aliens?—doubles as an indictment of Western culture.

April 2, 2012 | 12:02am -
Inventory That’s Eastertainment!: 27 Easter-based entertainments that aren’t Biblical epics

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April 2, 2012 | 12:00am -
Book Review Geoff Dyer: Zona: A Book About A Film About A Journey To A Room

The author of Out Of Sheer Rage dissects Andrei Tarkovsky’s landmark film Stalker by way of free association and personal connections.

March 14, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Book Review Craig Taylor: Londoners: The Days And Nights Of London Now

A Studs Terkel-esque collection of short interviews covers a wide swath of London life, as people discuss their city’s best and worst sides.

February 29, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Inventory How did they ever make a movie of…? : 17 successful adaptations of “unadaptable” books

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February 27, 2012 | 12:00am -
Book Review Jim Yardley: Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, An American Coach, And Two Cultures Clashing

A Pulitzer-winning critic compellingly examines Chinese basketball, as imported NBA figures and Western coaching styles cause a culture clash.

February 22, 2012 | 12:02pm -
Inventory Landmark films: 13 newly constructed buildings prominently featured in film

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February 13, 2012 | 12:00am -
Inventory Whose horse is it, anyway? 20 stories that follow property from owner to owner

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February 6, 2012 | 12:00am -
Book Review Ben Hellwarth: Sealab: America’s Forgotten Quest To Live And Work On The Ocean Floor

No, this book isn’t about the Cartoon Network animated series, it’s about 60 years of attempts to create a real-life underwater lab—with fatal results.

February 1, 2012 | 12:01pm -
Book Review Richard Rhodes: Hedy’s Folly

The Pulitzer-winning author of The Making Of The Atomic Bomb turns his sights to “most beautiful woman in the world Hedy Lamarr, but his dry history splits its focus.

January 18, 2012 | 12:01pm -
Inventory Cartoon break: 20 live-action movies with one animated scene

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January 16, 2012 | 12:00am -
Book Review Ann Beattie: Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines A Life

Richard Nixon's wife provides a focus for this series of stylistic exercises and literary musings

January 4, 2012 | 12:01pm -
Best of The best books we read in 2011

What we read, and why we loved it, in 2011.

December 28, 2011 | 12:01pm -
Book Review Paul Brannigan: This Is A Call: The Life And Times Of Dave Grohl

The nicest guy in rock gets an equally nice bio, but “nice” doesn't mean “compelling.”

December 21, 2011 | 12:04pm -
Book Review Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum: I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story Of The Music Video Revolution

This colorful oral history of MTV’s early years doesn’t pull punches or waste time on fluffy sentiment.

November 16, 2011 | 12:02pm -

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